Department of Finance

2004-2005 Seminar Series and Events

**January 27

11am-4pm

Lerner Hall Tyler Atrium and

Lerner Hall Classroom 126**

FREEZEOUT AND FAIRNESS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

 

Click here for hotel information for symposium

 

Directions to Alfred Lerner Hall

Papers to be presented at Symposium:

 

Shareholder Welfare and Bid Negotiation in Freeze-Out Deals:  Are Minority Shareholders Left out in the Cold?- By Tom Bates, University of Delaware

 

Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs:  Theory &  Evidence - By: Guhan Subramanian, Harvard Law School

 

R. Franklin Balotti's remarks will be an extension of his thinking as expressed in

"Delaware's going-private dilemma:  Fostering protections for minority shareholders in the wake of Siliconix and Unocal exploration" (Business Lawyer, 58, 2003, available in Lexis Nexis)

March 18th

2-3:30

Room 230 Purnell Hall

George Comer

Georgetown University

High Quality Bond Funds:

 Market Timing Ability and Performance

March 22nd

1:30-3

Room 230 Purnell Hall

April Klein

Stern School of Business

NYU

They Came, They Conquered, They Collapsed:The Impact of Nasdaq’s Lowering of Listing Standards in 1997

April 29th 

2-3:30

Room 330 Purnell Hall

Shane Corwin

Mendoza College of Business

Notre Dame

Order Flow, Trader Type, and the Determinants of Commonality in Prices and Liquidity

May 18th

12-130

Room 236A Purnell Hall

Jay Coughenour

University of Delaware

Limited Attention and the Allocation of Effort in Securities Trading

2005-2006 Seminar Series and Events

March 7, 2006

3-4:30pm 

Room 230 Purnell Hall

April Klein 

New York University

Audit Committee Financial Expertise, Competing Corporate Governance Mechanisms, and Earnings Management

March 16, 2-3:30pm

Room 230 Purnell Hall

Dave Denis

 Perdue University

Earnouts: A Study of Financial Contracting in Acquisition Agreements