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Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance

Tue, 19 and Wed, 20 July 2011

Organized by

NUS Business School

PROGRAMME 

 

Venue: Kent Ridge Guild House
9 Kent Ridge Drive
Singapore 119241

TUESDAY, 19 JULY 2011
 
8:15am Registration
8:45 – 9:00am Welcome Remarks
Bernard Yeung
Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor
NUS Business School
9:00 – 10:00am Keynote Speech

“Information Rules: How markets become efficient and why we should care"
Charles M.C. Lee
Stanford University

10:00 – 10:30am Coffee Break

Session I:
Session Chair: Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore)

10:30 – 11:15am Paper 1

“Transparency and Liquidity Uncertainty in Crisis Periods”

Mark H. Lang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Mark G. Maffett* (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Discussant: David Reeb (Temple University)

11:15 – 12:00noon

Paper 2

“Transmission of Bank Liquidity Shocks in Loan and Deposit Markets: The Role of
Interbank Borrowing and Market Monitoring”

Franklin Allen (University of Pennsylvania)
Aneta Hryckiewicz (Kozminski University)
Oskar Kowalewski* (Warsaw School of Economics)
Gunseli Tumer-Alkan (VU University Amsterdam)

Discussant: Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

12:00 – 2:00pm

Luncheon

Session II:
Session Chair: Melvyn Teo (Singapore Management University)

2:00 – 2:45pm Paper 3

“Real Options, Volatility, and Stock Returns”

Gustavo Grullon (Rice University)
Evgeny Lyandres* (Boston University)
Alexei Zhdanov (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Neil D. Pearson (University of Illinois)

2:45 – 3:30pm Paper 4

“The Tail in the Volatility Index”

Nikunj Kapadia* (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Jian Du (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Discussant: Duan Jin-Chuan (National University of Singapore)

3:30 – 4:00pm  Coffee Break
4.00 – 4:45pm Paper 5

“What Drives the Value Premium: The Role of Asset Risk and Leverage"

Jaewon Choi* (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Discussant: Raymond Kan (University of Toronto)




WEDNESDAY, 20 JULY 2011
 
8:30am Registration

Session III:
Session Chair: Jeffrey E. Pontiff (Boston College)

9:00 – 9:45am Paper 6
“Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity”
Ji-Woong Chung* (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Berk A. Sensoy (Ohio State University)
Lea H. Stern (Ohio State University)
Michael S. Weisbach (Ohio State University)

Discussant: Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University)
9:45 – 10:30am Paper 7
“Does Equity-Based Compensation Really Have a Dark Side? The Influence of
Regulatory Discretion”
 
Buhui Qiu* (Eramus University)
Michael F. Ferguson (University of Cincinnati)
Weihong Song (University of Cincinnati) 

Discussant: Sugato Bhattacharyya (University of Michigan)
10:30 – 11:00am Coffee Break

Session IV:
Session Chair: Angie Low (Nanyang Technological University)

11:00 – 11:45am Paper 8
“Inside Debt and the Design of Corporate Debt Contracts” 
Divya Anantharaman (Columbia University)
Vivian W. Fang* (Rutgers University)
Guojin Gong (Penn State University) 

Discussant: Thomas J. Chemmanur (Boston College)
11:45 – 12:30pm         Paper 9
“CEO Interviews on CNBC”
Young Han Kim (Nanyang Technological University)
Felix Meschke* (University of Kansas)

Discussant: Mark G. Maffett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
12:30 – 2:30pm Luncheon

Session V:
Session Chair: Joseph Cherian (National University of Singapore)

2:30 – 3:15pm Paper 10
“Managerial Multitasking in the Mutual Fund Industry"
Vikas Agarwal* (Georgia State University)
Linlin Ma (Georgia State University) 

Discussant: Felix Meschke (University of Kansas)
3:15 – 4:00pm Paper 11
“Capitalizing on Capitol Hill: Informed Trading by Hedge Fund Managers” 
Jiekun Huang* (National University of Singapore)
Meng Gao (National University of Singapore) 

Discussant: Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
4:00 – 4:30pm e-voting for Best Paper Award
4:30 – 4:45pm Closing Remarks and Best Paper Award Presentation
4:45 – 5.15pm Farewell Coffee

*Paper Presenter