Finance Seminars
Upcoming seminars
TBA
Past seminars
Breaking through Glass Ceilings: Occupational minority CEOs and firm performance
Presently by Sonal Kumar (Concordia University)
October 11, 2019 at 10:0 in MB 15.254
Consumption Taxes and Corporate Investment
Martin Jacob (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management)
September 15, 2017 at 10:00
Early Indicators of Fundraising Success by Venture Capital Firms
Timothy Trombley (San Diego State University)
September 29, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.
You Needn’t be the First Investor There: Early-Mover Disadvantages in Emerging Private Equity Markets
Alexander Groh (EMLYON Business School)
October 6, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.
Corporate Financing on Capital Markets: Evolution or Revolution?
October 25, 2016 at 2 pm at CIRANO, 1130 Sherbrooke St. West
Do Local Capital Market Conditions Affect Consumer's Borrowing Decisions?
Presented by Alexander W. Butler (Rice University)
May 18, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
Title TBA
Presented by Louis Gagnon (Queen's University)
May 9, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
A comparison of CEO Pay in Public & Private US Firms
Presented by Kai Li (University of British Columbia)
April 18, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
Title TBA
Presented by Wei Wang (Queen's University)
March 30, 2012 at 10:00 in MB 14.250
Theory and Evidence on Contract Vagueness and Enforcement Evaluation
Presented by Jiro Kondo (McGill University)
March 16, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
"The Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Corporate Acquisition Activity"
Presented by Ashrafee Hossain (PhD Candidate, Concordia University) and co-authored with Harjeet Bhabra
January 27, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
"Reliable Estimation of Efficient Portfolio Means:
Presented by Harry J. Turtle (Washington State University) and co-authored with Bob Korkie
February 17, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
Finance Seminar
Presented by - Aytek Malkhozov (McGill University)
November 11, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in MB 14.250
"Does the Law of one Price really hold intraday?"
Presented by Rahul Ravi (Concordia University) and co-authored with Stephen Bertone
October 28, 2011 at 10:00
"Dividend Strips and the Term Structure of Equity Risk Premia"
Presented by Oliver Boguth (Arizona State University) and co-authored with Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Mike Simutin
September 23, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
"Valuing Catastrophe Derivatives Under Limited Diversification: a Stochastic Dominance Approach"
Presented by Ali Boloor Foroosh (PhD Candidate, Concordia University) and co-authored with Stylianos Perrakis
April 15, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
"Are People Bad for Business?"
Presented by Melissa Toffanin (PhD Candidate, Concordia University) and co-authored with Nilanjan Basu and Imants Paeglis
April 8, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
"CEO Overconfidence and International Merge and Acquisition Activity"
Presented by Stephen Ferris (University of Missouri).
April 1, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
“Do Hedge Funds Have Information Advantages? Evidence from Hedge Fund Stock Holdings”
Presented by Kee-Hong Bae (York University)
March 25, 2011 – 10:00 a.m.
“IPO Waves, Information Spillovers , and Analyst Biases”
Presented by Amrita Nain (McGill University) and co-authored with Susan Christoffersen and Ya Tang
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
“Monetary Policy and Coporate Default”
Presented by Lars-Alexander Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon University) and co-authored with Harjoat S. Bhamra and Adlai J. Fisher
Friday, February 18, 2011 – 10:00 a.m.
“Performance, risk, and Capital Buffer under Business Cycles and Banking Regulations: Evidence from the Canadian Banking Sector”
Presented by Van Son Lai (University of Laval) and co-authored with Alaa Guidara & Issouf Soumaré
Friday, February 4, 2011 – 10:00 a.m.
“Is the U.S. Market more efficient after the SOX? Evidence from the market reactions of the SEOs by Canadian cross-listing firms”
Presented by Arturo Rubalcava (University of Regina).
Friday, November 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
“Real options approach to vertical product differentiation: from monopoly to merger”
Presented by Vera Baranouskaya (Swiss Finance Institute).
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 10:00 am
"Excess Cash and Mutual Fund Performance”
Presented by Mikhail Simutin (University of Toronto).
Friday, November 12, 2010 at 10:00 am
“Dynamic equilibrium in an economy with a illiquid stock market”
Presented by Sergey Isaenko (Concordia University)
Friday, November 5, 2010 at 10:00 am
“Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Cannot Be a Good Measure of Financial Constraints: Evidence from the Time Series”
Presented by Jason Huafeng Chen (University of British Columbia) and co-authored with Shaojun (Jenny) Chen.
Friday October 29, 2010 at 10:00 am
"Of Nature or Nurture: Does investing-style lead to riches or do riches lead to style?"
Presented by David Newton.
April 9, 2010 at 10:00 am
"Does Changing Corporate Governance Alone Result in Better Firm Performance?"
Presented by Dr. Darius Palia, Rutgers Business School and co-authored with N.K. Chidambaran and Yudan Zheng.
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:00 am
"Growth to Value: Option Exercise and the Cross Section of Equity Returns"
Presented by Dr. Dana Kiku, The Wharton School and co-authored with Hengjie Ai.
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 10:00 am
"Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle"
Presented by Dr. Marcin Kacperczyk, New York University and co-authored with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp.
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 10:00 am
"Speed and Consequences of Venture Capitalist Post-IPO Exit"
Presented by Dr. Imants Paeglis and co-authored with Parianen Veeren.
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 10:00 am
“Between Severance Pay and Lawsuit: What Should Firms Optimally Choose?”
Saif Ullah, Concordia University.
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 10:00 am
“Performance of U.S. Equity and Bond Mutual Funds Using the Stochastic Discount Factor Approach”
by Ines Gargouri, Concordia University and co-authored with Lawrence Kryzanowski.
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 10:00 am
"Corporate Event Risk: Canadian Financial Restatements" by Ying Zhang, Ph. D. Student, Concordia University.
November 4, 2009 at 10:00 am
“Incentives and Innovation: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts” presented by Iftekhar Hasan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-authored with Bill Francis and Zenu Sharma.
October 9, 2009 at 10:00am
“Asset Prices in the Representative-Agent Economy with Background Risk” by Andrei Semenov
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 10:00 am
"The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk" by Harjoat Bhamra
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 3:00 pm
"Law and Executive Compensation: How the Legal System Affects the Equity Mix in Executive Compensation" by Dr. Ajay Patel
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“Leverage, Value and Family Ownership in Newly Public Firms” by Nilanjan Basu, Imants Paeglis and Dogan Tirtiroglu
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“Financial Market Liberalization and the Pricing of Idiosyncratic Risk” by John K Wald, University of Texas at San Antonio
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“Pricing Securities with Multiple Risks - An Empirical Study” by Ravi Mateti
Monday, March 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“Dynamic Equilibrium in Economy with Illiquid Stock Market” by Sergey Isaenko
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“Does It Help to Buy Recommendations?” by Saif Ullah
Monday, February 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm
"The spirit of capitalism and asset prices: empirical evidence" by Yaxuan Qi
November 17, 2008 at 9:30 am
"Filght-to-Liquidity and Global Equity Returns" by Sergei Sarkissian, McGill University
November 10, 2008 at 9:30 am
"Quantifying pyramids" by Maria Boutchkova or Diego Cueto
November 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm
"The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel" by Art Durnev, McGill University
October 20, 2008 at 3:00 pm
"Two-Pass Cross-Sectional Regressions under Potentially Misspecified Models" by Raymond Kan, Cesare Robotti, and Jay Shanken
October 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm
"Precarious politics" by Maria Boutchkova
September 26, 2008 at 11:00 am
Seminars sponsor
Department of Finance Seminars are sponsored by the Desjardins Centre for Innovation in Business Finance.
Contact us
Director
Michel Magnan, Ph.D., FRSC, FCPA Auditor, FCA, ASC
Professor, Department of Accountancy
John Molson School of Business
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West,
MB 15.301 (see map)
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
514-848-2424, ext. 4145
michel.magnan@concordia.ca