| Venue for seminars: | ICMA Centre, Room G03/04 |
| Seminar Time: | 4:30pm to 5:30pm |
CEO Overconfidence and the Long-Term Performance following R&D Increases
Speaker: Keng-Yo Ho, Associate Professor in Finance, National Taiwan UniversityDate: 30 May, 12
Dr Keng-Yu Ho is an associate professor at the Department of Finance, National Taiwan University. He received his PhD from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. His research interests include empirical corporate finance and asset pricing.
What is the Consumption-CAPM missing? An Information-Theoretic Framework for the Analysis of Asset Pricing Model
Speaker: Christian Julliard, Lecturer in Finance, LSEDate: 23 May, 12
Dr. Christian Julliard is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the Department of Finance (since Fall 2009), and a senior research associate of the Financial Market Group (FMG), at the London School of Economics. He is also a research affiliate of the International Macroeconomics and Financial Economics programmes of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and an associated editor of Economica.Continue reading
Institutional Investors and Foreign Exchange Risk
Speaker: Danielle Xu, Visiting Professor in Finance, Hanken School of Economics, FinlandDate: 16 May, 12
Dr Danielle Xu is a visiting professor at the Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Her research interests include empirical asset pricing, corporate disclosures and financial analysts’ behaviour. Her publications appear on Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Academy of Finance.
Merger bonuses, synergies and target shareholders wealth
Speaker: Anh L Tran, Lecturer in Finance, City University LondonDate: 9 May, 12
Dr Anh L. Tran joined the Faculty of Finance at Cass in August 2010 from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has taught Corporate Finance classes at both MSc and undergraduate levels. Anh’s research interests are in Empirical Corporate Finance, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Governance among others. His research on stock option grants was cited in aContinue reading
The Effects of Rare Economic Crises on Credit Spreads and Leverage
Speaker: Harjoat Bhamra, Associate Professor in Finance, University of British Columbia and Imperial College LondonDate: 3 May, 12
Dr Harjoat Bhamra is an associate professor in Finance at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. He obtained his MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, England and PhD in Finance from London Business School in 2003. His research interests include asset pricing with incomplete markets, recursive utility, international finance, credit risk and capital structure. His publications appear on Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance.
Cross-Market Timing in Security Issuance
Speaker: Dong Lou, Lecturer in Finance, LSEDate: 21 Mar, 12
Dr Lou has been a lecturer of Finance at London School of Economics since 2009. He received his PhD in Finance from Yale University. His research interests include empirical asset pricing and corporate finance as well as behavioural finance.
Reputational Contagion and Optimal Regulatory Forbearance
Speaker: Alan Morrison, Professor in Finance, OxfordDate: 14 Mar, 12
Dr. Morrison read mathematics at Brasenose College, Oxford, 1985 – 88. Between 1988 and 1995 he worked for Anderson Consulting (now Accenture), Morgan Grenfell and SG Warburg. He then took an MSc at Imperial College in the Foundations of Information Technology. He completed his doctorate at Saïd Business School on ‘Reputation, Opportunism and Crowd Behaviour in Debt Markets’ in 2000.
The Hazards of Volatility Investments: A Diversification Threshold Analysis
Speaker: Carol Alexander, Professor in Finance, Chair in Risk Management, ICMA CentreDate: 7 Mar, 12
Professor Carol Alexander is Chair of Risk Management at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, at Reading University. She holds degrees from the University of Sussex (BSc First Class, Mathematics with Experimental Psychology; PhD Algebraic Number Theory) and the London School of Economics (MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics). She joined the ICMA Centre in 1999. She has an Honorary ProfessorshipContinue reading
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Value of Political Connections in Social Networks
Speaker: Bang Dang Nguyen, Lecturer in Finance, CambridgeDate: 29 Feb, 12
Bang Dang Nguyen, Before joining Cambridge Judge Business School in September 2010, Dr. Nguyen was an assistant professor of finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He graduated from HEC Paris in July 2006 with a PhD degree in finance. From January 2003 to April 2004, Bang was a visiting scholar in the Finance Department at Stern School ofContinue reading
Earnings Announcements and Systematic Risk
Speaker: Mungo Wilson, Lecturer in Financial Economics, OxfordDate: 22 Feb, 12
Mungo Wilson Dr. Wilson is a lecturer in financial economist at the Said Business School, Oxford University from 2009. Before joining Oxford, Mungo was a visiting lecturer at London School of Economics and an assistant professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2004.
