Fall 2024
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 2025
Date	Room	Presenter	University	Paper
2/21	WJWH 504	Kristine Hankins	Kentucky
2/28	WJWH 504	Pedro Matos	Virginia
3/7		Anna Cieslak	Duke
3/14	WJWH 504	Michael Young	Missouri
4/4	WJWH 504	George Aragon	Arizona St.
4/11	Southwest Finance Symposium (Tulsa). Participating universities: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Tulsa, Missouri St.
4/18	WJWH 504	Nathalie Moyen	Colorado
4/25	WJWH 504	Pavel Savor	DePaul

Past Seminar Presentations

Spring 2024
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
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

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

Spring 2019
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
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
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
10/6		Santiago Barraza	Arkansas	Business loans and the transmission of monetary policy

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

Fall 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
Date	Time	Presenter	University	Paper
8/30		Santiago Barraza	Arkansas	Financial Crisis and the Supply of Crisis
Spring 2013
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

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

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

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

Date

Time

Presenter

University

Paper

Presentations by job candidates

Spring 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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