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Empirical ConferenceMay 1 & 2 Schedule

Carlson School of Management
321 – 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455


 

Contact:
Ivy Zhang, (612) 626-3118, izhang@umn.edu
Assistant, Deb Cross (612) 624-3885, cros0275@umn.edu


Friday, May 1ROOM 2-233, 2nd Floor
1:00 p.m. Welcome statement by Judy Rayburn
1:05 – 2:20 p.m.

Yu Gao
“Bondholder Activism and Delay in Financial Reporting” 
2:35 – 3:50 p.m.

Jayanthi Sunder
“Balance Sheet Conservatism and Debt Contracting"
4:05 – 5:20 p.m.

Morton Pincus
“Evidence on Motivations for Downward Earnings Management"
6:00 p.m.

Shuttle to Nicollet Island Inn restaurant
95 Merriam Street, Minneapolis
Tel: (612)331-1800
9:00 p.m.

Shuttle back to Holiday Inn

Saturday, May 2ROOM 2-233, 2ND FLOOR
The Carlson School of Management Accounting Empirical Conference
University of Minnesota
May 1-2, 2009
 
 
List of Participants
 
 
Invited Speakers                                                        Invited Participants
 
Yu Gao, University of Minnesota                              Jagadison Aier, George Mason University
Cristi Gleason, University of Iowa                             Regina Anctil, St. Thomas University
Rebecca Hann, University of Maryland                     Ryan Ball, University of Chicago
Mozaffar Khan, MIT Sloan University                      Xin Baohua, University of Toronto
Morton Pincus, University of California, Irvine          Yunhao Chen, Florida International U
Jayanthi Sunder, Northwestern University                 Steve Crawford, Rice University
                                                                                Fu Huijing, Texas Christian University
                                                                                Yaniv Konchitchki, U of Southern CA
Carlson Faculty                                                      Zining Li, Southern Methodist U
                                                                                Hai Lu, University of Toronto
Ming Deng                                                              Alex Nekrasov, University of CA, Irvine
Clayton Forester                                                     Maria Ogneva, Stanford University
Frank Gigler                                                            Ramesh Krishnamoorthy, Michigan State U
Zhaoyang Gu                                                           Ram Venkataraman, SMU
Tom Issavitch                                                          Sarah Zechman, University of Chicago
Chandra Kanodia                                                    Suning Zhang, George Mason University
Judy Rayburn                                                          Ling Zhou, Tulane University
Pervin Shroff
Ivy Zhang
 
Carlson PHD Students
 
Sanjay Banerjee                                                          Xin Dai
Xiongfei Deng                                                              Stephanie Grimm
Young Shim Ham                                                         Xu Jiang
Sumi Jung                                                                     Jae Bum Kim
Lashsmana Krishna-Moorthy                                        Radhika Lunawat
Xiaoxia Peng
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Cristi Gleason
“Valuation Model Use and the Price Target Performance of Sell-Side Equity Analysts”
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.

Rebecca Hann
“Corporate Diversification and the Cost of Capital"
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Box Lunch Distribution
 
11:30 - 12:45

“Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs"

 

 

Mozaffar Khan

 


Papers for Empirical Conference

Download or view research papers that will be referenced at the conference.