Seminar Series

Department Research Colloquium Speakers

Spring 2012 

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
February 24 Byron Tsang Virginia Tech (Ma) Risk and Expectations in Exchange Rates: A Macro-Finance Approach
March 2 John Wooders University of Technology, Sydney (Van Essen) Blind Stealing:  Experience and Expertise in a Mixed-Strategy Poker Experiment
March 23 Seminar canceled
March 30 Lauren Cohen Harvard University (Agrawal) TBA
April 13 Wally Thurman North Carolina State University (Holt) TBA
April 20 Chris Cunningham Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Reed) TBA
April 27 David Mills The Federal Reserve Board (Reed) TBA

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
August 24

S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid

 Yeshiva University (Agrawal) TBA
August 31
September 7

Mehmet Caner

 North Carolina State University (Holt) TBA
September 14 Rehim Kilic Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta  (Lee) TBA
September 21

Charles Hadlock

Michigan State University
(Mobbs)

 TBA
September 28 Alon Brav Duke University (Agrawal) TBA
October 12 Steve Wu Purdue University (Cordero Salas) TBA
October 19 Job Candidates TBA
October 26


Job Candidates

 TBA
November 2 Liad Wagman Illinois Institute of Technology (Jindapon) TBA
November 9

Job Candidates

 TBA
November 16 Job Candidates TBA
November 30 Erik Kimbrough Simon Fraser (Hoover) TBA
December 7 Leonardo Madureira Case Western Reserve Universtiy TBA

  

Brown Bag Series 2011-2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
October 10 Zeng/Cook Alabama The Takeover Market and Corporate Cash Holdings
October 17 Enders/Hoover Alabama On the Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty
October 24 Sudipta Sarangi LSU Confirming Information Flows in Networks
October 31 Mobbs Alabama
Trade-offs between internal and external governance: Board structure and anti-takeover provisions
November 7 Ellis Alabama How do funds of hedge funds add value?
November 14 Van Essen Alabama A Clarke Tax Tatonnement that Converges to the Lindahl Allocation
November 28 Jindapon Alabama Information acquisition in securities markets: Bertrand Versus Cournot
March 26 Agrawal Alabama Common Advisors in Mergers and Acquisitions: Determinants and Consequences
April 9 Hye Jin Lee Alabama More Powerful Engle-Granger Cointegration Test

April 16

 Anna Cai Alabama The Growth Effects of Knowledge Spillovers in the Presence of Trade
April 23 Karl Boulware Alabama The Non-Bank Financial Sector, Money Market Activity, and Central Bank Provision of Liquidity: The Case of Security Repurchase Agreements