Fall 2024 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 215, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 6
2:30 -4:00 pm |
Ahmed Ahmed
Babson College |
Foreign Institutional Investors, Monetary Policy, and Reaching for Yield |
| Friday, September 13 | Jie (Jack) He
Terry College of Business University of Georgia |
(Don’t) Feed the Mouth that Bites: Trade Credit Spillover through Common Suppliers |
| Friday, September 20 | Theis Jensen
Yale School of Management |
Subjective Risk and Return |
| Wednesday, October 9
BUSN 321 10:30-12:00 pm |
Evgeny Lyandres
Tel Avivi University |
Does Market Efficiency Impact Capital Allocation Efficiency? The Case of Decentralized Exchanges |
| Friday, October 25 | Xiang Zheng
UConn |
How Does VC Activism Backfire in Startup Experimentation? |
| Friday, November 1 | Anya Mkrtchyan
Isenberg School of Management |
Creativity without walls: The case of open innovation |
| Friday, November 15 | Franz Hinzen
Tuck School of Business |
Nonbank Market Power in Leveraged Lending |
Past Seminars
Spring 2024 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 202, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, February 9 | Lina Han
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Geopolitical Risk and Decoupling: Evidence from U.S. Export Controls |
| Friday, February 16 | Suman Banerjee
Stevens Institute of Technology |
Price Destabilizing Speculation: The Role of Strategic Limit Orders |
| Friday, March 1
BUSN 204 11:00 am-12:30 pm |
Maya Haran
The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania |
Do parents save more for a daughter or a son? Evidence on gender favoritism from a child savings program |
| Friday, March 8 | Shamma Alam
Dickinson College |
The Effects of Expanding Female Economic Opportunities on Fertility: Casual Evidence from a Randomized Control Trail in Bangladesh |
| Friday, March 22
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Xiang Zheng
UConn |
Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11? |
| Friday, March 29 | Yao Deng
UConn |
Market Power, Technology Shocks and the Profitability Premium |
| Friday, April 5 | Anup Agrawal
The University of Alabama |
Disruptive Innovation and IPO Outcomes: Evidence from Machine Learning |
| Friday, April 19 | Yang Song
University of Washington
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Remeasuring Scale in Active Management |
| Friday, April 26 | Lars-Alexander Kuehn
Carnegie Mellon University |
Leverage Dynamics and Learning about Economic Crises |
Fall 2023 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 15 | Anand Srinivasan
National University of Singapore |
Operational Risk Management of Political Risk: Evidence from Customer Concentration |
| Friday. September 22 | Assaf Eisdorfer
University of Connecticut |
Competition Management in Corporate Filings |
| Friday, October 13 | Ran Duchin
Boston College |
Sustainability or Greenwashing: Evidence from the Asset Market for Industrial Pollution |
| Friday, October 20 | Reena Aggarwal
Georgetown University |
Price Discovery from Offer Price to Opening Price of Initial Public Offerings |
| Friday, October 27 | Xiang Zheng & Meng Gao
University of Connecticut |
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| Friday, November 10 | Edith Hotchkiss
Boston College |
Firms’ Response to Credit Supply: Evidence from Upsized Corporate Bond Offerings |
| Friday, November 17 | Chi-Yang Tsou
University of Manchester-UK |
Pollution Abatement Investment under Financial Frictions and Policy Uncertainty |
Spring 2023 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, February 3 | Jackson Lautier
UConn |
On the Convergence of Credit Risk in Current Consumer Automobile Loans |
| Friday February 17 | Yao Deng
UConn |
Estimating and Testing Investment-based Asset Pricing Models |
| Friday, March 10 | Samuel Antill
Harvard Business School |
Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy |
| Friday, March 24 | Francesco D’Acunto
Georgetown University |
How Costly Are Cultural Bisaes? Evidence from FinTech |
| Wednesday, April 5
BUSN 321 12:00-1:30 pm |
Amir Rubin
Simon Fraser University |
Sentiment Inequality, Relative Performance of Firms, and the Stock Market |
| Friday, April 21 | Ioannis (Yianni) Floros
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Premium PIPEs: Why Do Investors Frequently Pay More than the Prevailing Market Price |
Fall 2022 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 122, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 9 | Tom O’Brien | Dollar Cost Averaging vs Optimal Buy-And-Hold In A Model With Equity Momentum, Reversion, And Mispricing |
| Friday, September 23
1:00-2:15 |
Daniel McMillen
University of Illinois Chicago |
Assessment Persistence |
| Friday, October 7 | Doctoral Students |
Doctoral Student Paper Presentations |
| Friday, October 14 | Lukas Schmid
University of Southern California |
Credit Market Equivalents and the Valuation of Private Firms |
| Friday, October 21 | Dragana Cvijanovic
Cornell |
Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices |
| Friday, November 4 | Kenneth Ahern
University of Southern California |
The Conglomerate Network |
| Friday, November 11 | Xiang Zheng
UConn |
Do Fintech Shadow Banks Compete with Technological Advantages? Evidence from Mortgage Lending |
| Friday, November 18 | Karen Smith
Brandeis University |
Cross-Country Inflation Expectations Evidence of Heterogeneous & Synchronized ‘Mistakes” |
| Friday, December 9 | Jin Xu
Virginia Tech |
Does It Pay To Hire A Friend? |
Spring 2022 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, January 28
VIA WEBEX |
Winston Dou
The Wharton School |
Feedback and Contagion Through Distressed Competition |
| Friday, February 11
VIA WEBEX |
Marco Sammon
Harvard Business School |
Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness |
| Friday, March 25th
BUSN 112 |
Charles Hadlock
Michigan State University |
Protecting Your Friends: The Role of Connections in Division Manager Careers |
| Friday, April 1
BUSN 112 |
Chi Zhang
UMASS-Lowell |
Access to Patent Information and Technological Acquisitions: Evidence from the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program |
| Friday, April 8
VIA WEBEX |
Elena Simintzi
UNC Kenan-Flagler |
Women in the Financial Sector |
| Friday, April 22
BUSN 112
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Jarrad Harford
University of Washington |
Political Attitudes, Partisanship, and Merger Activity |
| Friday, April 29
BUSN 112 11:00 -12:30 |
Danny Soques
University of North Carolina |
The 283 Days of Stock Returns After The 2016 Election |
Fall 2021 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 17 | Zhiguo He | Investing in Lending Technology: An Anatomy of Bank IT Spending |
| Friday, September 24 | Jaideep Shenoy | Corporate M&As and labor market concentration: Efficiency gains or power grabs? |
| Friday, October 1 | Doctoral Student Papers | |
| Friday, October 15
VIA WEBEX |
Jiacui Li | Prices Are More Inelastic at More Aggregate Levels |
| Friday, November 5
VIA WEBEX |
Song Ma | The Education-Innovation Gap |
| Friday, November 12 | Patrick Gosselin | The Distress Puzzle and Credit Forbearance |
| Friday, November 19 | Nancy R. Xu | Main Street’s Pain, Wall Street’s Gain |
Spring 2021 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held online: Fridays from 2:00-3:00 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, February 26 | Heitor Almeida | Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity? |
| Friday, March 5 | Alex Edmans | CEO Compensation: Evidence From the Field |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm | ||
| Friday, March 26 | Chongyu Wang | Face-to-face Interactions, Tenant Resilience, and Commercial Real Estate Performance |
| Friday, April 23 | Stefano Giglio | Test Assets and Weak Factors |
| 11:00- 12:00 pm | ||
| Friday, May 7 | Manuel Adelino | Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy |
Fall 2020 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held online: Fridays from 2:00-3:00 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 18 | Tong Yao | Liquidity Characteristics of Market Anomalies and Institutional Trading |
| Friday, September 25 | Kristine Hankins | Corporate Responses to Stock Price Fragility |
| Friday, October 2 | Student Paper Presentations | |
| Friday, October 9 | Daniel Weagly | Firm Finances and the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Nursing Homes |
| Friday, November 6 | Naci Mocan | Racial Bias and In-group Bias in Virtual Reality Courtrooms |
| Friday, November 13 | Dev Mishra | CEO Private Firm Experience and Idiosyncratic Risk |
| Friday, November 20
11:00 am-12:00 pm |
Gordon Philips | Scope, Scale and Competition: The 21st Century Firm |
| Friday, December 4 | Efdal Misirli | Peer Momentum |
Spring 2020 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Tuesday, January 21
12:30-2:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Yao Deng | Extrapolative Expectations, Corporate Activities, and Asset Prices* |
| Thursday, January 23
12:30-2:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Pingle Wang | Demand for Information and Stock Returns: Evidence from EDGAR |
| Friday, January 24
1:30-3:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Arkodipta Sarkar | Policy Uncertainty, Multinational Firms, and Reallocation * |
| Monday, January 27
10:30-12:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Ahmet Degerli | Monetary Policy Exposure of Banks and Loan Contracting |
| Wednesday, January 29
10:30-12:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Meng Gao | Get the Money Somehow: The Effect of Missing Performance Goals on Insider Trading |
| Thursday, January 30
12:00-1:30 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Lei Ma | Short Selling Risk and Hedge Fund Performance |
| Friday, January 31 | Orly Sade | Is One Plus One Always Two? Insuring Longevity Risk While Having Multiple Savings Accounts |
| Monday, February 3
10:30-12:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Vitaly Meursault | The Language of Earnings Announcements |
| Tuesday, February 4
12:30-2:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Matteo Binfare | The Real Effects of Operational Risk: Evidence from Data Breaches |
| Monday, February 10
10:30-12:00 FNCE Conference Room 463
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Yijun Zhou | To Fire of Not to Fire? The Role of Job Security in Asset Management |
| Wednesday, February 12
10:30-12:00 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Byeong-Je An | Voluntary Disclosure with Evolving News |
| Friday, March 13 | Tong Yao | Liquidity Characteristics of Market Anomalies and Institutional Trading |
Fall 2019 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203, from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 20 |
Tim Loughran Notre Dame |
Measuring Firm Complexity |
| Friday, September 27 |
Valeri Sokolovski HEC – Montreal |
Hedge Funds and Financial Intermediaries |
| Friday, October 4
Finance Conf Room, 464 |
Finance Doctoral Student Papers |
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| Friday, October 11 |
Anh Tran University of Connecticut |
Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Return Chasing in Mutual Funds |
| Friday, October 18 |
Yud Izhakian New York University |
Ambiguity and Tradeoff Theory of Capital Structure |
| Friday, November 8 |
Xian Gu Wharton University of Pennsylvania |
The Interbank Market Puzzle |
| Friday, November 15 |
Assaf Eisdorfer University of Connecticut |
Competition Links and Stock Returns |
| Friday, November 22 |
Ian Appel Boston College |
The Limits of Limited Liability: Evidence from Industrial Pollution |
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Spring 2019 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203 from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Monday, February 4
2:00 – 3:30 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Stephanie Johnson
Northwestern University |
Mortgage Leverage and House Prices |
| Wednesday, February 6
9:00 – 10:30 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Alexander van de Minne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dealing with Unobserved Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Models |
| Monday, February 11
2:00 – 3:30 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Erasmo Giambona
Syracuse University |
Stiffing the Creditor – The Effect of Asset Verifiability on Bankruptcy |
| Tuesday, February 12
2:00 – 3:30 FNCE Conference Room 463 |
Yannan (Lily) Shen
Clemson University |
Information Value Of Property Description – A Machine Learning Approach |
| Friday, March 1 | Costanza Meneghetti
West Virginia University |
Efficient Governance, Inefficient Markets-Short Selling with Takeover Risk |
| Friday, March 15 | Fousseni Chabi-Yo
University of Massachusetts – Amherst |
Real-Time Distribution of Stochastic Discount Factors |
| Friday, March 29 | Dogan Tirtiroglu
Ryerson University |
Regulatory Competition and Cross-Fertilization in the US Banking Markets |
| Friday, April 5
1:30 – 3:00 |
Lauren Cohen – PhD Speaker Series
Harvard University |
Buying the Verdict |
| Friday, April 26 | David Bergman – OPIM
University of Connecticut |
Optimization for Maximizing the Expected Value of Order Statistics |
Fall 2018 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held: Fridays in BUSN Room 203 from 2:00-3:30 pm
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 14 | Michael Owyang
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank |
Nonlinearities, Smoothing and Countercyclical Monetary Policy |
| Friday, September 28 | Hong Liu
Olin Business School – Washington University in St. Louis |
Index Investing and Price Discovery |
| Friday, October 19 | Ali Ozdagli
Boston Federal Reserve Bank |
Interest Rates and Insurance Company Investment Behavior |
| Friday, November 2 | Hieu Phan
University of Massuchusetts-Lowell |
Shareholder Litigation Rights and Capital Structure |
| Friday, November 9 | Fei Xie
University of Delaware – Lerner College of Business and Economics |
Directors-Older and Wiser, or Too Old to Govern |
| Friday, November 16 | Naci Mocan (Cancelled)
Louisiana State University |
Racial Bias and In-group Bias in Judicial Decisions-Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms |
| Friday, November 30 | Jules Van Binsbergen
University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School of Business |
Risk Free Interest Rates |
Spring 2018 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, January 19 | Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut | Bitcoin-and-Cryptocurrencies |
| Friday, February 2 | Nagpurnanand Prabhala University of Maryland | The Relationship Dilemma: Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking |
| Friday, February 16 | Omesh Kini
Georgia State University |
CEO Mobility, Performance-Turnover Sensitivity, and Compensation: Evidence from Non-Complete Agreements
Co-authored with Ryan WilliamsInference i and David Yin |
| Friday, April 20 | Stefano Giglio
Yale University |
Inference on Risk Premia in the Presence of Omitted Factors |
Fall 2017 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Friday, September 8 12:30 – 2:00, OAK 337 | Jessie Handbury University of Pennsylvania | Urban Revival in America |
| Friday, September 15 2:30 – 4:00, BUSN 106 | Erasmo Giambona Syracuse University | Derivatives Supply and Corporate Hedging |
| Friday, October 6 | First and Second year Finance Doctoral Students | |
| Friday, October 13 | Amir Rubin Simon Frasier University | Lured by Consensus: The Implications of Treating All Analysts as Equal |
| Monday, October 16 11 – 12:30, BUSN 214 | Po Hsu Hong Kong University | The Oscar goes to…: Peer pressure, innovation competition, and takeovers |
| Friday, October 27 | Clemens Sialm University of Texas | CANCELLED |
| Friday, November 3 | Jayant Kale Northeastern University | Debt, Bankruptcy Risk, and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness
CANCELLED |
| Friday, November 10 | Michelle Lowry Drexel University | Venturing Beyond the IPO: Financing of Newly Public Firms by Pre-IPO Investors |
| Friday, November 17 | Carlos Alberto Castro
University of Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia) |
Measuring the Effectiveness of Volatility Auctions |
Spring 2017 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Wednesday, January 25 Room 215 | Daniel Rees University of Colorado Denver |
Was The First Public Health Campaign A Failure? |
| Friday, January 27 | Charles Courtemanche Georgia State University |
Early Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage and Health-Related Outcomes in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States |
| Friday, Feburary 3 | Padmaja Ayyagari University of Iowa |
Health Insurance and Early Retirement Plans: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act |
| Monday, Feburary 13 11 – 12:30, Room 215 | Po Hsu University of Hong Kong | Leviathan Inc. and Corporate Environmental Engagement |
| Thursday, March 22 | Thomas Chemmanur Boston College | Venture Capital backing, Investor Attention, and Initial Public Offerings |
| Wednesday, March 29 2 – 3, Room 204 | Lilian Ng York University | Supplier Short Selling and Customer News |
| Friday, March 31 | Thomas O’Brien University of Connecticut | Estimating Cost of Equity: Global CAPM v International CAPM Around the World |
| Monday, April 3 1:15 – 2:15, Room 214 | Yiming Qian University of Iowa | Entrusted Loans: A Close Look at China’s Shadow Banking System |
| Friday, April 28 | Paul Borochin University of Connecticut | The Effect of Institutional Ownership Types on Innovation and Competition |
| Friday, May 5 | Donald Siegel Arizona State University | Academic Entrepreneurship: The Roles of Organizational Justice, Championing, Education, Work-Life Balance and Identity |
Fall 2016 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 15 | Dan Greenwald Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The Mortgage Credit Channel of Macroeconomic Transmission |
| Friday, September 23 | Jonathan Lewellen Dartmouth University |
The Behavior of Aggregate Corporate Investment |
| Friday, September 30 | Yiming Qian University of Iowa |
Homebiased Acquistions |
| Monday, October 3 | Guy David University of Pennsylvania |
The Inner Workings of the Patient Centered Medical Home Model |
| Friday, November 11 | Harley E. Ryan, Jr Georgia State University | The Influence of Learning and Bargaining on CEO-Chair Duality: Evidence from Firms that Pass the Baton |
| Friday, December 2 | Jie Yang Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Network Centrality of Customers and Suppliers |
Fall 2015 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, September 4 | Paul Borochin University of Connecticut |
The Effects of Conference Call Content on Market Perceptions of Value Uncertainty and Firm Risk |
| Friday, September 11 3:30 – 5:00, Room 202 | Dan Segal Interdisciplinary Center, Israel |
Do fiduciary duties to creditors reduce debt-covenant avoidance? |
| Friday, September 25 | Charles Clarke University of Connecticut |
The Level, Slope and Curve Factor Model for Stocks |
| Friday, October 2 | Kent Daniel Columbia University | Momentum Crashes |
| Friday, October 9 | Finance PhD Student Presentations |
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| Friday, October 23 | Namho Kang University of Connecticut |
Private information and corporate earnings: Evidence from big data |
| Friday, November 13 | Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut |
Can technical trading be profitable? Evidence from volatility markets |
Spring 2014 Schedule
Fall 2013 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, September 20 | Finance Doctoral Students University of Connecticut |
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| Friday, September 28 | Sugato Chakravarty Purdue |
Capacity Constraints and the Opening of New Hedge Funds |
| Friday, October 4 Room 202 |
Leonid Kogin MIT |
Technological Innovation: Winners and Losers* |
| Friday, October 25 | Mine Ertugrul UMass-Boston |
Is it the Investment Bank or the Investment Banker? A Study of the Role of Investment Banker Human Capital in Acquisitions |
| Friday, November 8 | Paul Borochin University of Connecticut |
Measuring the Full Value-Effect of an Event: The Healthcare Reform Act |
| Friday, December 6 | Paul Borochin University of Connecticut |
Market-Based Measures of Financing Constraints |
Spring 2013 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 1 | Nicholas Barberis Yale University |
Behavioral Finance |
| Tuesday, March 12 Oak Hall 337 |
Stuart Rosenthal Syracuse University |
Tax Avoidance & Business Location in a State Border Model |
| Friday, March 22 Board Room |
Dmitriy Muravyev Boston College |
Execution Timing in Equity Options |
| Friday, April 5 | Resul Cesur University of Connecticut |
Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure |
| Friday, May 3 | Walter Dolde University of Connecticut |
Management power, corporate performance, and over/underinvestment |
| Friday, May 17 | Ali Ozdagli Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
Distressed, but not risky: Reconciling the empirical relationship between financial distress, market-based risk indicators, and stock returns (and more) |
Fall 2012 Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 5 | Paul Borochin and Jim Sfiridis University of Connecticut |
Option Pricing Anomalies in Times of Financial Distress |
| Friday, October 12 | Byoung-Hyoun Hwang Purdue University |
Which Anomalies Are More Popular? And Why? |
| Friday, November 2 | Assaf Eisdorfer University of Connecticut |
Misvaluation and Return Anomalies in Distress Stocks |
| Monday, November 5 11:00-12:00, Rm 302 |
Quoc Nguyen University of Illinois |
Geographic Momentum |
| Monday, November 12 2:00-3:00, Rm 321 |
Namho Kang Boston College |
Predictability of aggregate and firm-level returns |
| Friday, November 16 | Min Zhu The World Bank |
Financial Misstatements and Contracting in the Equity Market: Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings |
| Monday, November 19 11:00-12:00, Rm 321 |
Anya Mkrtchyan Pennsylvania State University |
The Effect of Director Expertise on Acquisition Performance |
| Monday, November 26 11:00-12:00, Rm 321 |
Yeejin Jang Ohio State University |
Does International Corporate Diversification Improve Access to Capital? |