Department of Finance: Finance Seminar Series

Robert Battalio and Tim Loughran, University of Notre Dame
Topic: "Does the Market Value Mandated Disclosure?"
Wednesday, March 5, 11:30-1:00pm, 121MCOB

Kathleen Hanley, Securities Exchange Commission - Economics Division|
Topic: "Strategic Disclosure and the Pricing of Initial Public Offerings"
ND Contact: Tim Loughran
Wednesday, March 12, 11:30-1:00pm, 339 MCOB

No Seminar during the week of March 17th-21st due to GOOD FRIDAY!

Harold Mulherin, University of Georgia
Topic: "Competing with the NYSE"
ND Contact: Rick Mendenhall
Friday, March 28th, 11:30-1:00pm, 121MCOB

Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald, University of Notre Dame
Topic: "Plain English"
Friday, April 4th, 11:30-1:00pm, 339 MCOB

Itay Goldstein, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: "Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fagility - Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows"
ND Contact: Zhi Da
Friday, April 11th, 11:30-1:00pm, 121 MCOB

Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois
Topic: "Beyond Cash Flow and Voting Rights: Valuation and Performance of Finance in Complex Ownership Structures"
ND Contact: Hayong Yun
Friday, April 15th,* 12:15 -1:45pm, 339 MCOB
*PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE!!!

James Weston, Rice University
Topic: "Has the Propensity to Pay Out Declined?"
ND Contact: Paul Schultz
Friday, April 25th, 11:30-1:00pm, 121 MCOB

Speaker: Paul Gao, University of Notre Dame
Topic: TBA
Friday, May 2nd, 11:30-1:00pm, 339 MCOB (POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE)