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Forum 2008 Keynote Speakers

The Second Revolution in Finance by John Cochrane, Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance, GSB

Securitization, SIV’s and CDS Settlement: Causes and Consequences of a Credit Crunch
by Jonathan Sokobin, Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Risk Assessment

Indices Panel:

Moderator Lubos Pastor, Professor of Finance, GSB
Includes panelist Gus Sauter, Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, Vanguard

Economy Panel:

Moderator - John Huizinga, Walter David “Bud” Fackler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, GSB
Includes panelist Dr. Edward Lazear, Chairman of The President’s Council of Economic Advisers

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

(Alphabetical by title)

PRESENTATION TITLE AUTHOR(S)

A Methodological Approach for the Valuation of Callable Bonds in Emerging Markets: The TGI example

Edgardo Cayón Fallon
Julio Sarmiento Sabogal

Accounting Scandals in IPO Firms

Anup Agrawal
Tommy Cooper

Are ETFs Replacing Index Mutual Funds?

Ilan Guedj
Jennifer Huang

Asset Prices and Exchange Rates: A time dependent approach

Giulia Piccillo

Asset Pricing and Prospect Theory: A 4-State Capital Asset Pricing Model Based on High Efficiency Data

John R. Norsworthy
Rifat Gorener
Irvin W. Morgan Jr.
Richard E. Schuler, Jr.
Ding Li

Black’s Simple Discounting Rule: A Simple Implementation

Claudio Loderer
John B. Long
Lukas Roth

Capital Structure and Employee Pay: An Empirical Analysis

Thomas J. Chemmanur
Yingmei Cheng
Tianming Zhang

Competition Among Mutual Funds

Sunil Wahal
Albert (Yan) Wang

Corporate Governance Consequences of Accounting Scandals

Anup Agrawal
Tommy Cooper

Do Private Equity Consotiums Impede Takover Competition?

Audra L. Boone
J. Harold Mulherin

Do Short Sellers Detect Overpriced Firms?

Jonathan M. Karpoff
Xiaoxia Lou

Earnings Management and Forced CEO Turnover: Empirical Evidence

Sonali Hazarika
Rajarishi Nahata
Jonathan M. Karpoff

Insider Trading Before Accounting Scandals

Anup Agrawal
Tommy Cooper

Institutional Investors, Intangible Information and the Book-to-Market Effect

Hao Jiang

Inter-temporal Variation in the Illiquidity Premium

Gerald Jensen
Theodore Moorman

Intraday price discovery and volatility transmission

Alassane B. Diaw

Liquidity and Credit Default Swap Spreads

Dragon Yongjun Tang
Hong Yan

Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Asset Prices: A Stochastic Volatility Model

Hwagyun Kim
Hyoung Il Lee
Joon Y. Park
Hyosung Yeo

Multi-Country Event Study Methods

Cynthia J. Campbell
Arnold R. Cowan
Valentina Salotti

Neoclassical Factors

Long Chen
Lu Zhang

New Goods and Asset Prices

Paul Scanlon

Reaching out to Your Peers: Performance Consequences of Investment Bank Networks

Tuugi Chuluun

Real Effects of Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan

Masami Imai

Real-Time Profitability of Published Anomalies: An Out-of-Sample Test

Zhijian (James) Huang

Reconciling the significance of the market factor in time-series asset pricing tests with the lack of  significance of market beta in cross-sectional tests

Jungshik Hur
Raman Kumar

Side-by-Side Management of Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds

Tom Nohel
Z. Jay Wang
Lu Zheng

Stock Market Uncertainty and Developed-Emerging Market Return Relation

Xi Dong

Term Premium Dynamics and the Taylor Rule

Michael Gallmeyer
Burton Hollield
Francisco Palomino
Stanley Zin

The Economic Content of Interest Rates, Monetary Policy and Time-Varying Risk Premia

Francisco Palomino

The Equity Premium: A Deeper Puzzle

Francisco Azeredo

The Other Side of the Trading Story: Evidence from NYSE

Woon Wong
Laurence Copeland
Ralph Lu

The Term Structure of Bond Market Liquidity

Ruslan Goyenko,
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Andrey Ukhov

The valuation of inflation-derivatives under inflation target regime

Alon Raviv

Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

Jin Ginger Wu
Lu Zhang
X. Frank Zhang

Using Stocks or Portfolios in Tests of Factor Models

Andrew Ang
Jun Liu
Krista Schwarz

Volatility Vs. Liquidity? Evidence from the US Corporate Bond Market

Madhu Kalimipalli
Subhankar Nayak

What Does the Bond Market Know?

George Bittlingmayer
Shane Moser

When Active Fund Managers Deviate from their Peers:The Impact on Performance

Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee

Why do Firms Undertake Accelerated Share Repurchase Programs?

Thomas J. Chemmanur
Yingmei Cheng
Tianming Zhang

Why do Small Stock Acquirers Underperform in the Long-Term?

Itzhak Ben-David
Darren T. Roulstone

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