Finance Seminar Series

Fall 2026

Fall 2026 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
9/11	WJWH 504	John Hackney	Arkansas	Partisan Product Pricing
10/23	WJWH 504	Junnan He	Missouri	Capacity, Technology Portfolios, and the Paradox of Concentration

Spring 2027

Spring 2027 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
2/5	WJWH 504	Samuel Rosen	Temple
3/5	WJWH 504	Jillian Grennan	Emory
3/12	WJWH 504	Scott Baker	Wisconsin
4/9	43rd annual Southwest Finance Symposium in Tulsa. Participating universities: Arkansas, Missouri State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tulsa
4/16	RCED 232	Andy Puckett	Tennessee
4/23	WJWH 504	Michelle Lowry	Drexel
4/30	WJWH 504	Rawley Heimer	Arizona St.

Seminar Archive

Past Seminar Presentations

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Spring 2026 View schedule

Spring 2026 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
3/6	WJWH 504	Tony Cookson	Colorado	Immigration and Credit in America
3/13	WJWH 504	Ben McCartney	Virginia	Mortgage Refinancing and Political Participation
4/10	42nd annual Southwest Finance Symposium in Tulsa. Participating universities: Arkansas, Missouri State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tulsa
4/17	WJWH 504	Umit Yilmaz	Missouri	Why do Investors Vote Against Corporate Directors?
4/24	WJWH 504	Matthew Ringgenberg	Utah	On the No-Arbitrage Relation between Securities Lending Fees and Option Prices

Fall 2025 View schedule

Fall 2025 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
8/22	WJWH 504	Jan Hanousek Jr	Memphis	Gamified edge: Does gamification affect people's risk profile and engagement?
10/10	WJWH 504	Feng Zhang	SMU	The Weighting Bias
10/17	RCED 232	Jan Hanousek	Mendel	Corporate Performance and Policies Under Scrutiny: Guilty by Association?
10/31	WJWH 504	John Hackney	Arkansas	Financial Literacy and Financial Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Spring 2025 View schedule

Spring 2025 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
2/21	WJWH 504	Kristine Hankins	Kentucky	Driving a Bargain: Negotiation Skill and Price Dispersion
2/28	WJWH 504	Pedro Matos	Virginia	The Green Transition: Evidence from Corporate Green Revenues
3/7		Anna Cieslak	Duke	Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premium
3/14	WJWH 504	Michael Young	Missouri	Nationalism, Subtle Bias, and Labor Outcomes: Evidence from Global Mutual Funds
4/4	WJWH 504	George Aragon	Arizona St.	Hedge Fund Liquidity Management: Insights for Fund Performance and Financial Stability
4/11	41st annual Southwest Finance Symposium (Tulsa). Participating universities: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Tulsa, Missouri St.
4/15	WJWH 504	Jonathan Brogaard	Utah	Does High Frequency Market Manipulation Harm Market Quality?
4/18	WJWH 504	Nathalie Moyen	Colorado	Volatility Spillovers from Concentrated Upstream Production: Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
4/25	WJWH 504	Pavel Savor	DePaul	Short Covering

Fall 2024 View schedule

Fall 2024 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
9/13		Khaled Obaid	Mississippi St.	Transmission Bias in Financial News
10/4	WJWH 504	Zicheng Xiao	Arkansas	Measuring Information Quality by Topic Attention Divergence: Evidence from Earnings Calls
10/11	WJWH 504	Mikhail Chernov	UCLA	An anatomy of currency strategies: The role of emerging markets

Spring 2024 View schedule

Spring 2024 seminar schedule
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
2/9	WJWH 203	Lubomir Litov	Oklahoma	Racial diversity and inclusion without equity? Evidence from executive compensation
2/12	WCOB 405	Jan Hanousek	Mendel	The “Cinderella” Effect in Business Groups: Choosing Which Subsidiary is the Princess
2/16	WJWH 203	Veronika Pool	Vanderbilt	Contract Evaluation Horizon and Fund Performance
3/29	WJWH 203	Rafael Zambrana	Notre Dame	MiFID II Research Unbundling: Cross-border Impact on Asset Managers
4/5	WJWH 504	Liyan Yang	Toronto	To Dissimulate or Not to Dissimulate? Insider Trading When Anticipating Future Information
4/12	Southwest Finance Symposium (Tulsa). Participating universities: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Tulsa, Missouri St.
4/19	WJWH 504	Michael O’Doherty	Missouri	Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice
4/26	WJWH 333	Yuan Gao	Arizona	Work Ties Matter: The Implications of Interfund Comanager Connections for Mutual Fund Portfolios and Performance

Fall 2023 View schedule

Fall 2023 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
8/25		Xiaonan Wei	Arkansas	Selecting CEOs and Identification of Gender Biases Using Machine Learning
9/29		Gustavo Grullon	Rice	Identifying the Real Effects of the M&A Market on Target Firms
11/3		Suiheng Guo	Arkansas	Proximity and Mutual Fund Management Outsourcing: Evidence from Air Travel Data
11/10		Tim Riley	Arkansas	Why Have Actively Managed Bond Funds Remained Popular?
12/1		Clifton Green	Emory	Expert Network Calls

Fall 2022 View schedule

Fall 2022 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/9		Xi Li	Arkansas	Weather Induced Employment Growth Surprises and the Cross-Section of Local Stock Returns
10/14		Yu Wang	Arkansas	Buying the Imagination of Comfort? The Staging Effect during House Sales
10/24		Yuekun Liu	Aalto U.	Multi-Factor Timing: Measures and their Application to Hedge Funds

Spring 2022 View schedule

Spring 2022 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/17		Tian Qiu	Kentucky	Public Financing and Racial Disparities in Education: Do Rising Tides always Lift all Boats?
2/18		Min Kim	Michigan St.	Fire Sale Risk and Expected Stock Returns
4/29		Alex Butler	Rice	Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market

Fall 2021 View schedule

Fall 2021 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
11/12		Noah Stoffman	Indiana	Small Innovators: No Risk, No Return
11/30		Peter Dixon	SEC	Prospect Theory Preferences in Good Times and Bad
12/1		Jiajie Xu	Boston Coll.	The Effect of Tax Incentives on Local Private Investments and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

Spring 2021 View schedule

Spring 2021 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
1/29		Chris Parsons	USC	Are Behavioral Biases Contagious? Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate
2/19		Dermot Murphy	Illinois-Chicago	Good for your fiscal health? The effect of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare borrowing costs
3/5		Scott Yonker	Cornell	Fear and Risk: Do Visceral Factors Affect Risk Taking?
3/19		Danling Jiang	Stony Brook	Faster than Flying: High-Speed Rail, Investors, and Firms
4/16		John Bai	Northeastern	Growing Pains: The Effect of Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment over the Business Cycle
4/23		Jan Bena	UBC	Banks as Secret Keepers: Evidence from the Opacity Discount

Fall 2020 View schedule

Fall 2020 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
10/23		Xi Li	Arkansas	Does creative destruction matter in competitive industries?

Spring 2019 View schedule

Spring 2019 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
3/29		Denis Sosyura	Arizona St.	The Origins and Real Effects of the Gender Gap: Evidence from CEOs’ Formative Years
4/12		Gjergji Cici	Kansas	The Impact of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Managerial Actions: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry
4/19		Evgeny Lyandres	Boston U.	Do tokens behave like securities ? An anatomy of initial coin offerings

Spring 2018 View schedule

Spring 2018 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/2		Joey Engelberg	UCSD	Analysts and Anomalies
4/13		Thomas Chemmanur	Boston Coll.	The Geography of Institutional Investors, Information Production, and Initial Public Offerings
4/20		Paolo Fulghieri	UNC	Uncertainty and Contracting in Organizations

Fall 2017 View schedule

Fall 2017 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
10/6		Santiago Barraza	Arkansas	Business loans and the transmission of monetary policy

Spring 2017 View schedule

Spring 2017 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
4/28		Henrik Cronqvist	Miami	In the Red: The Effects of Color on Investment Behavior

Fall 2016 View schedule

Fall 2016 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/7		Jay Ritter	Florida	Corporate Cash Shortfalls and Financing Decisions
9/26		Tatiana Salikhova	Arkansas	Friends or Foes? Divisional Managers and Efficiency of Capital Allocation

Spring 2016 View schedule

Spring 2016 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
4/15		Ashish Tiwari	Iowa	Conditional Benchmarks and the Identification of Skill in Active Management
5/13		Mara Faccio	Purdue	Taxes, Capital Structure Choices, and Firm Value

Fall 2015 View schedule

Fall 2015 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
10/23		Jeff Harris	American	Interconnectedness in the Interbank Market
4/24		Stace Sirmans	Arkansas	Related Securities and the Cross-Section of Stock Return Momentum

Spring 2015 View schedule

Spring 2015 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
3/6	9:15	Daniel Bradley	South Florida	The boss knows best: Directors’ of Research industry expertise and sell-side analysts
4/24		Ke Yang	Lehigh	Underwriter-Issuer Social Ties and IPO Outcomes

Fall 2014 View schedule

Fall 2014 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/26		Yongjia (Eddy) Li	Arkansas	On the Market Timing and Feedback Effect of Hedging: Evidence from U.S. Oil and Gas Producers
9/12		Jun Duanmu	Arkansas	In Search of Missing Risk Factors: Hedge Fund Return Replication with ETFs
9/12		Garrett McBrayer	Arkansas	Credit Rating Changes and Price Contagion

Spring 2014 View schedule

Spring 2014 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
4/27		Vassil Mihov	TCU	Market Recognition of the Accounting Disclosure and Economic Benefits of Operating Leases: Evidence from borrowing costs and credit ratings
4/4		Yuzhao Zhang	Oklahoma St.	Free (Almost) Variance Insurance
2/21		Don Chance	LSU	The Volatility Smile in Perfect Markets

Fall 2013 View schedule

Fall 2013 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
8/30		Santiago Barraza	Arkansas	Financial Crisis and the Supply of Crisis

Spring 2013 View schedule

Spring 2013 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
4/12	10:30	George Aragon	Arizona St.	Strategic Delays and Clustering in Hedge Fund Reported Returns
4/5	10:30	Rajesh Aggarwal	Minnesota	Unrelated Acquisitions

Fall 2012 View schedule

Fall 2012 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
10/29	10:00	Olubunmi Faleye	Northeastern	Do Better-connected CEOs Innovate More?
8/31	12:00	William McCumber	Arkansas	CFO Network Centrality and Private Debt
7/23	2:00	Liping Ma	Arkansas	Income Inequality, Leverage and Mortgage Crisis

Spring 2012 View schedule

Spring 2012 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/24	10:30	Jun Yang	Indiana	Is Disclosure an Effective Cleansing Mechanism? The Dynamics of Compensation Peer Benchmarking
3/9		Miles Livingston	Florida	The Value of a Third Opinion: Split Ratings, Information Opacity, and Fitch Ratings
4/6	10:30	Radhakrishran Gopalan	WUSTL	Managerial compensation in multi-division firms

Spring 2011 View schedule

Spring 2011 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
4/15	10:30	Valery Polkovnichenko	Texas-Dallas	Downside Consumption Risk and Expected Returns
4/29	11:00	Georgios Skoulakis	Maryland	The Baltic Dry Index as a Predictor of Global Stock Returns, Commodity Returns, and Global Economic Activity

Fall 2010 View schedule

Fall 2010 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
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Spring 2010 View schedule

Spring 2010 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/12		Hazel Nguyen	Arkansas	CEO Incentives, Investment and Debt Policy, and Bank Risk
2/19	11:00	Chris Yung	Colorado	The Long-Run Supply and Demand for Venture Capital Funds: Information and Endogenous Entry
2/26		Bilal Erturk	Oklahoma St.	Short Interest and Credit Spreads
4/16	2:00	Stephen Haggard	Missouri St.	The Halloween Effect: Trick or Treat?
4/23	11:00	Sergey Tsyplakov	South Carolina	Time-To-Build and Dynamics of Capital Structure
4/30		Justin Lallemand	Arkansas	Tactical Capital Structure Adjustments by Takeover Targets

Fall 2009 View schedule

Fall 2009 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/04		Kevin Lee	Arkansas	Foreigners as change agents of organizations and institutions: evidence from Sweden
9/18	10:00	Jenny Gu	Arkansas	Corporate Governance, Asset Choice, and Bank Risk
9/25	10:00	Lixin Huang	Georgia State	The Effect of Supplier and Customer Industry Interrelations on Mutual Fund Investment and Performance
10/16	10:00	Vahap Uysal	Oklahoma	Deviation from the target capital structure and acquisition choices
11/13	10:00	J. Manuel Sanchez	Arkansas

Spring 2009 View schedule

Spring 2009 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
3/6	2:00	Ali Nejadmalayeri	Oklahoma St.	Sarbanes Oxley Act and Corporate Credit Spreads
3/27	2009 SOUTHWEST FINANCE SYMPOSIUM (Tulsa)
4/3	11:00	Rajdeep Sengupta	St. Louis Fed	Where's the Smoking Gun? A Study of Underwriting Standards for US Subprime Mortgages
4/17	11:00	Christopher Anderson	Kansas	External Contracting and Equity Financing at Biotech Firms: Evidence from PIPEs

Fall 2008 View schedule

Fall 2008 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
11/7	11:00	Mark Flannery	Florida	Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure Decisions
11/7	2:00	Jeff Jones	Drury	Price Discovery in Opaque Markets
11/14	2:00	Kee-Hong Bae	York	Do Foreigners Facilitate Information Transmission?
12/5		Justin Lallemand	Arkansas

Spring 2008 View schedule

Spring 2008 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/29		Joel Harper	Oklahoma St.	Implicit Contract Modification or Wealth Expropriation: Evidence from Pension Terminations and Cash Balance Conversions
3/7	2008 SOUTHWEST FINANCE SYMPOSIUM IN TULSA:
	10:00	Dobrina Georgieva and Tomas Jandik	Arkansas	Alternative Methods of Convergence toward U.S. Market and Legal Regulations: Cross-listing vs. Merging with U.S. Bidders
	11:15	Bilal Erturk	Oklahoma St.	Why do short interest levels predict stock returns?
	1:30	Michael Troilo	Tulsa	Trust, Rule of Law, and New Firm Formation
	2:45	Duane Stock	Oklahoma	The Distribution of the Value of the Firm and Stochastic Interest Rates: An Application to Structural Models of Default Risk
3/28		Vikas Agarwal	Georgia State	Implications of Volatility, Skewness, and Kurtosis Risks for Hedge Fund Performance
4/4		Norris Larrymore	Quinnipiac	Do Mutual Fund Media Recommendations Hold Value?An Empirical Analysis of The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney Fund Screen
4/18		Scott Miller	Arkansas	Do Bondholders Change Covenants Over Time in Response to Risk?
4/25		Yingying Shao	Arkansas	Information risk and credit default swap

Fall 2007 View schedule

Fall 2007 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/21	11:00	Karl Lins	Utah	Does Derivative Accounting Affect Risk Management? International Survey Evidence
10/12	11:30	Yingying Shao	Arkansas	The Effects of Credit Derivatives on U.S. Bank Risk and Return, Capital and Lending Structure
11/9	11:30	Jeff Jones	Drury	Does Opacity Really Matter?: Evidence from Bank Mergers
11/16	11:30	Yingying Shao	Arkansas	Predicting Future Stock Market Performance using Style-Based Portfolio Returns
11/30	11:30	Justin Lallemand	Arkansas	Bank Holding Company Interest Rate Risk and its Drivers

Spring 2007 View schedule

Spring 2007 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
2/2	11:45	Alexey Malakhov	Arkansas	The Role of Uninformed Investors in an Optimal IPO Mechanism
2/9	11:45	Craig Rennie	Arkansas	CEO Compensation and Managerial Power: Do CEOs Really Influence their own Compensation?
2/16	11:45	Tim Yeager	Arkansas	Is Universal Banking Worthwhile? Evidence From Banks in the Securities Business
2/23	11:30	Chris Brune	Arkansas	The Effects of Insurer Events on Insured Municipal Bonds
3/2	11:30	Scott Miller	Arkansas	Core Charter Value and Bank Risk: Extracting the Effects of the Business Cycle from Charter Value
3/16	11:30	Dobrina Georgieva & Tomas Jandik	Arkansas	Alternative Methods of Convergence toward U.S. Market and Legal Regulations: Cross-listing vs. Merging with U.S. Bidders
4/6	11:00	Anil Makhija	Ohio State	The Impact of Shareholder Power on Bondholders
4/13	11:00	David Haushalter	Penn State	Is There Shareholder Expropriation in the U.S.? An Analysis of Publicly-traded Subsidiaries
4/27	11:00	Kathleen Kahle	Arizona	Why do U.S. firms hold so much more cash than they used to?
5/4	11:00	Diane Del Guercio	Oregon	Why Do Some Mutual Fund Families Pick Stocks for the Competition?

Fall 2006 View schedule

Fall 2006 seminar schedule
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
9/22		Rodrigo Hernandez	Arkansas	The Market and the Pricing of Outperformance Certificates
9/29		Chris Tobler	Arkansas	New Evidence on Valuation-Based Acquisition Theory
10/6		Shane Van Dalsem	Arkansas	The effect of severance agreements on good and bad CEO-firm matches
11/3		Tomas Jandik	Arkansas	Do Internal Capital Markets Improve Following the Adoption of Economic Profit Plans?
11/10		Dobrina Georgieva	Arkansas	Does Sarbanes-Oxley Act chase away foreign firms? Evidence from ADR terminations
11/17		Jeff Jones	Arkansas	Do Changes in Dividends Signal Changes in Risk? Evidence from the Option Market

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Earlier presenters since 2000: Jonathan Clarke, David Denis, Craig Dunbar, Stephen Ferris, Laura Field, Jarrad Harford, Simi Kedia, Wayne Mikkelson, Betty Simkins, Vijay Singal, Shawn Thomas.