Fall 2011 Conference Agenda
Continental breakfast: 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. (HIL 119)
Opening: 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. (HIL 119)
Session 1: 9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. (HIL 119)
- "Planning for Career Success as an Academic"
- Speaker: David Ikenberry
Break: 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Session 2: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (HIL 119)
- Career planning breakout session
- Moderator: David Ikenberry
Lunch: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Collins Center)
Session 3: 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. (HIL119)
- “The Dividend Month Premium”
- Author: David Solomon, USC
- Discussant: Zheng Sun, UCI
- “CEOs Get Cash Windfalls While Shareholders Get Richer: An Examination
of Accelerated Vesting in Takeovers”- Author: David Offenberg, LMU
- Discussant: Yi JIang, CSUF
- “Lack of Comovement and Property Rights Protection: Firm-Level Evidence”
- Author: Yongxiang Wang, USC
- Discussant: Joshua Spizman, LMU
Break: 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Session 4: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (HIL 119)
- “R&D and Stock Returns: Is There a Spill-Over Effect?”
- Author: Yi Jiang, CSUF
- Discussant: Yun Liu, UCR
- “How does Uncertainty Resolution Effect VC Syndication?”
- Author: Ayca Altintig, Chapman
- Discussant:
- “Entrepreneurial Overconfidence, Outside Equity and Successful Exits”
- Author: Craig Everett, Pepperdine
- Discussant: Hsin-Hui Chui, CSUN
- Concluding remarks