Fall 2008 Conference Agenda
Session 1: 10:15 a.m. - Noon (HIL 302)
- Introductions & Opening Remarks
- “50+ Years of Diversification Announcements”
- Author: Mehmet Akbulut
- Discussant: Vincentiu Covrig
- “The Search for Corporate Control: Some Evidence”
- Author: Marc Martos-Vila
- Discussant: Yanbo Jin
- “On the Matching of Companies and Their Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from Venture Capital”
- Author: Sinan Goktan
- Discussant: Xiaoying Xie
Lunch: Noon - 1:30 p.m. (HIL 243)
Session 2: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (HIL 302)
- “Do Private Equity Consortiums Impede Takeover Competition?”
- Harold Mulherin
Break: 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Session 3: 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (HIL 302)
- “Institutional Investors and Accruals Quality”
- Author: Laura Liu
- Discussant: Lin Tan
- “Ownership Structure and Debt-Equity Choice: Comparing Hong Kong with U.S. Firms”
- Author: Vipin Agrawal
- Discussant: Susan Elkinawy
- “An Empirical Examination of The Rule of Three: Strategy Implications for Top Management, Marketers, Investors, and Policy Makers”
- Author: Ayca Altintig
- Discussant: Alice Sun
- Concluding remarks