Fall 2015 Conference Agenda
Continental breakfast: 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. (Location: Hilton 103)
Session 1: 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. (Location: Hilton 103)
- Opening remarks
- Management Long Term Earnings Growth Forecasts
- Presenter: Tim Haight, Loyola Marymount University
- Discussant: Mitch Warachka, Claremont McKenna College
- Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns
- Presenter: Tom Y. Chang, University of Southern California
- Discussant: Tim Haight, Loyola Marymount University
Break: 11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Session 2: 11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. (Location: Hilton 103)
- The Disparate Risk and Efficiency Implications of Information Dissemination
- Presenter: Mitch Warachka, Claremont McKenna College
- Discussant: Joshua Spizman, Loyola Marymount University
- Use of Reference Point Theory to Explain the Price Paid for Private Targets
- Presenter: Inga Chira, California State University, Northridge
- Discussant: Terry Wang, Loyola Marymount University
Lunch: 1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Location: Collins Center)
- With remarks by our Distinguished Guest, David Denis
Session 3: 3:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Location: Hilton 103)
- Bank Affiliation in Private Equity Firms: Distortions in Investment Selection
- Presenter: Yingdi Wang, California State University, Fullerton
- Discussant: Hai Tran, Loyola Marymount University
- Disclosure Tone of the Spin-off Prospectus and Insider Trading
- Presenter: Wonik Choi, California State University, Fullerton
- Discussant: Shan Wang, Loyola Marymount University
- Inside Debt, Financing Constraints, and Corporate Investment
- Presenter: Marshall D. Vance, University of Southern California
- Discussant: Yawen Jiao, University of California, Riverside
- Closing remarks