Seminars & Conferences

Date Speaker Topic
October 12, 2012 Mary Stanford
Texas Christian University
Evidence on the Market Response to Corporate Governance Deficiencies
October 19, 2012 Leslie A. Robinson
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Corporate Non-Income-Tax Avoidance
October 26, 2012 Florin P. Vasvari
London Business School &
Coller Institute of Private Equity
Default Clauses in Debt Contracts
December 7, 2012 Michael Minnis
University of Chicago
Knowledge, Compensation, and Firm Value: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Communication
December 14, 2012 Hans B. Christensen
University of Chicago
Debt Contracts and the Need for Mandatory Accounting Changes
March 8, 2013 Karthik Balakrishnan
The Wharton School
Aggregate Competition, Information Asymmetry and Cost of Capital: Evidence from Equity Market Liberalization
March 22, 2013 Chris Armstrong
The Wharton School
The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans
April 5, 2013 Anne Beatty
Ohio State University
 
April 12, 2013 Mark Maffett
University of Chicago
Short Selling and Default Prediction: International Evidence
April 19, 2013 Gregory S. Miller
University of Michigan
 
Date Speaker Topic
September 30, 2011 Andy Leone
University of Miami
 
November 4, 2011 Xue Wang
Emory University
The Economic Impact of the Dodd Frank Act of 2010: Evidence from Market Reactions to Events Surrounding the Passage of the Act
November 18, 2011 Brian Bushee
Wharton
Do Investors Benefit from Selective Access to Management?
November 30, 2011 Marcus Kirk
University of Florida
Investor Relations and Regulation FD
December 9, 2011 Chris Williams
University of Michigan
Delayed Expected Loss Recognition and the Risk Profile of Banks
January 13, 2012 Feng Li
University of Michigan
Estimating the Amount of Estimation in Accruals
March 9, 2012 Luzi Hail
Wharton
Mandatory IFRS Reporting and Changes in Enforcement*
March 30, 2012 Wendy Wilson
SMU
Financial Reporting Credibility After SOX:Evidence From Earnings Restatements
April 13, 2012 Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
University of Chicago
Debt Analysts’ Views of Debt-Equity Conflicts of Interest
April 27, 2012 Mary Billings
NYU
Continuation Options and Returns-Earnings Convexity
Date Speaker Topic
September 10, 2010 Teri Yohn
Indiana University
Disaggregating Operating and Financing Activities: Implications for Forecasts of Future Profitability
October 29, 2010 Terry Shevlin
University of Washington
Real Effects of Accounting Rules: Evidence from Multinational Firms’ Investment Location and Profit Repatriation Decisions
December 13, 2010 Mark Bradshaw
Boston College
Opacity, Crash Risk and Option Smirk Curves
January 21, 2011 Eric Yeung
University of Georgia
The Post Forecast Revision Drift and Underreaction to Industry-Wide and/or Firm-Specific Earnings
February 11, 2011 Christine Botosan
University of Utah
Representationally Faithful Disclosures, Organizational Design and Managers' Segment Reporting Decisions
March 4, 2011 Robert Bushman
UNC
Accounting Discretion, Loan Loss Provisioning, and Discipline of Banks ‘Risk-Taking’
March 18, 2011 Michelle Hanlon
MIT
 
March 25, 2011   Steve Stubben
UNC  
The Role of Target Firms’ Accounting Information in Acquisitions*
April 8, 2011 Feng Li
Michigan
 
  • October 20, 2009 - Andy VanBuskirk, University of Chicago
  • November 3, 2009 - Stephanie Sikes, Duke
  • November 06, 2009 - Ella Mae Matsumura, University of Wisonsin
  • November 20, 2009 - Bill Mayew, Duke
  • November 23, 2009 - K. Ramesh, Michigan State
  • November 30, 2009 - Mohan Venkatachalam, Duke
  • January 15, 2010 - Aieysha Dey, University of Chicago
  • January 29, 2010 - Lone Star
  • February 12, 2010 - Karthik Ramanna, Harvard University
  • February 26, 2010 - Ken Merchant, USC
  • April 16, 2010 - Kyle Peterson, University of Oregon
  • April 23, 2010 - Yu Gao, University of Minnesota
 
  • November 30 - Annie Farrell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • January 18 - Nicole Johnson, University of California-Berkeley
  • February 15 - Darren Roulstone, University of Chicago
  • March 21 - Joe Weber, MIT
  • April 18 - K. Ramesh, Michigan State & SEC
 
  • September 22 - Frank Selto, University of Colorado
  • October 27 - Cathy Shakespeare, University of Michigan
  • November 10 - Derek Oler, Indiana University
  • January 26 - Kristy Towry, Emory University
  • February 24 -Mike Shields, Michigan State University
  • March 2 - Jennifer Blouin, University of Pennsylvania
  • March 30 - Lakshmanan Shivakumar, University of London
  • April 13 - Taylor Randall, University of Utah
 
  • September 24 - Henock Loius, Penn State University
  • October 8 - Molly Mercer, Emory University
  • October 22 - Leslie Eldenburg, University of Arizona
  • November 12 - Harry Evans, University of Pittsburgh
  • November 19 - Paul Hribar, Cornell University
  • January 7 - Steven Huddart, Penn State University
  • January 14 - Phil Berger, University of Chicago
  • April 14 - Karen Sedatole, University of Texas at Austin
  • April 30 - Robert Kaplan, Harvard University