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May 2012
The Dark Side of Rights Issues
Date: 30/05/2012  Time: 14:00  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Moqi Xu, London School of Economics
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Impact of patient-centred ad didactic education for type-II diabetes control
Date: 29/05/2012  Time: 12:30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Paul Windrum
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Corporate Investment and the Option to Repurchase Debt
Date: 23/05/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Brandon Julio (London Business School)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Deliberate Limits to Arbitrage
Date: 16/05/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Igor Makarov (London Business School)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Beyond Pleasure and Pain, Value from Engagement
Date: 11/05/2012  Time: 11:30  Venue: C35, Bus. Sch. Dearing
Speaker: Professor Tory Higgins, Professor of Psychology and Management at Columbia University, Visiting Profesoor at London Business School
Hosting Group: Management
Large Shareholders, Monitoring, and Ownership Dynamics: Toward Pure Managerial Firms?
Date: 10/05/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: A06, Bus Sch South
Speaker: Professor Ngo Van Long (McGill University)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Avoiding the Q: Estimating Investment without Asset Prices
Date: 09/05/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Vita Gala (London Business School)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? The Chinese Patent Explosion at Home and Abroad.
Date: 02/05/2012  Time: 12:30  Venue: C2, New Building
Speaker: Markus Eberhardt
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
The determinants of Acquirer's Stock Returns in Mergers and Acquisitions
Date: 02/05/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Huainan Zhao (NUBS)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance

March 2012
Social Networks and the Allocation of Capital
Date: 28/03/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: B2, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Vig Vikrant (London Business School)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Union Decline in Britian
Date: 27/03/2012  Time: 12:30  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Getinet Haile, NUBS
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Chance Events in Entrepreneurial Opportunity Development
Date: 21/03/2012  Time: 13:00  Venue: A26, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Dimo Dimov
Hosting Group: UNIEI
Political economy of developing economies.
Date: 21/03/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Abhirup Sarkar (Indian Statistical Institute)
Hosting Group: Cyber Business Centre
Siemens Corruption & Preparation for the Bribery Act
Date: 19/03/2012  Time: 13:10  Venue: C1, New Building
Speaker: Owen Watkins, Regional Compliance Manager at Siemens
Hosting Group: ICCSR
Merger Bonuses, synergies and Target Shareholder Wealth
Date: 14/03/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Anh Tran (Cass Business School)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Critical Perspectives on Co-Creation of Value: A Multiple Cases Study Approach
Date: 09/03/2012  Time: 09:00  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Professor Bernard Cova (Professor of Marketing at Euromed Management, Marseilles)
Hosting Group: Marketing
Moulding the One-Dimensional Academic: The Performative Effects of Journal Ranking Lists (joint Accounting/Management research presentation event)
Date: 07/03/2012  Time: 13.00-14.30  Venue: LT1, CTF
Speaker: Professor Hugh Willmott (Cardiff Business School)
Hosting Group: Accounting

February 2012
A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More Than Outsiders
Date: 29/02/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Professor Bart Lambrecht (Lancaster University MS)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Date: 21/02/2012  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A32 , Dearing
Speaker: Professor Alexander Kritikos (DIW Berlin and University of Potsdam)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
TBC
Date: 15/02/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Ting Qiu (NUBS)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
The Role of Venture Capital in the Formation of Strategic Alliances.
Date: 08/02/2012  Time: 13:00-14:30  Venue: A26, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Kirsten Burkhardt (PhD student at the Fargo and the University of Burgundy)
Hosting Group: UNIEI
Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data
Date: 08/02/2012  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Daniel Paravisini (Columbia Business School and NBER)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance
Strategic obfuscation and consumer protection policy in financial markets: Theory and experimental evidence (joint with Tobias Wenzel)
Date: 07/02/2012  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Yiquan Gu (Liverpool University)
Hosting Group: Economics and Finance

December 2011
Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Design
Date: 08/12/2011  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A08, Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Sourafel Girma (Professor of Industrial Economics, Economics, UoN)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Film Marketing in the Digital Age: Revisiting Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Date: 01/12/2011  Time: 10.00-12.30  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Dr Finola Kerrigan (King's College London) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/management/people/academic/kerrigan.aspx
Hosting Group: Marketing

November 2011
Salvaging the C-CAPM: Currency Carry Trade Risk Premia and Conditioning Information
Date: 30/11/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Abhay Abhyankar (Edinburgh University)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
The Benefits of Size for Private Equity Investors
Date: 23/11/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Ludovic Phalippou (Oxford University (Said))
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Academic Inventors' Perceptions of University Support for Entrepreneurship and the Exodus Versus Stasis Decision
Date: 16/11/2011  Time: 12.30-14.00  Venue: B2, Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Vangelis Souitaris (professor of Entrepreneurship, City University)
Hosting Group: Management
Certification, Asset Size, and Financial Intermediation
Date: 09/11/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: A06, Bus Sch South
Speaker: Tianxi Wang (Essex University)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Fares, Load Factors and Yield Management: Evidence from a Low-Cost Airline
Date: 03/11/2011  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Claudio Piga (Loughborough University)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More Than Outsiders
Date: 02/11/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Bart Lambrecht (Lancaster University)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

October 2011
Will Say-on-pay Change Executive Compensation?
Date: 26/10/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Vicente Cunat (London School of Economics)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Regime Dependent Liquidity Determinant of Credit Default Swap Spread Changes
Date: 19/10/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Biao Guo (Nottingham University Business School)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
CDS Auctions
Date: 12/10/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Alexander Gorbenko (London Business School)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
A Critical Evaluation of Small Business Closure and Failure
Date: 12/10/2011  Time: 12.30-14.00  Venue: B2, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Sue Marlow, Professor Entrepreneurship, University of Birmingham
Hosting Group: UNIEI
The Brain Gain of Corporate Boards: A Natural Experiment from China
Date: 10/10/2011  Time: 13.00-15.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
The Brain Gain of Corporate Boards: A Natural Experiment from China
Date: 10/10/2011  Time: 13.00 - 15.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
The Precautionary Motive of Cash Reserve and Cash Reserve Effects for Bidders in the U.K.
Date: 05/10/2011  Time: 12.00-13.30  Venue: C2, Bus, Sch. South
Speaker: Ning Gao (Manchester Business School)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

September 2011
Which Firms Benefit From Bribes, And By How Much? Evidence From Corruption Cases Worldwide
Date: 28/09/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Raghavendra Rau (Cambridge University (Judge))
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

July 2011
Guilds, Enterprise and Production Cultures in Hollywood
Date: 01/07/2011  Time: 10.30-12.30  Venue: B03, Sir Colin Campbell Building, University Campus
Speaker: Tom Walsh
Hosting Group: UNIEI

June 2011
Barriers to Innovation in the Chemistry Using Industries
Date: 15/06/2011  Time: 17.30-19.00  Venue: Sir Colin Campbell Building
Speaker: Professor Sam Kingman
Hosting Group: UNIEI
Marketing/Innovation Seminar (various titles)
Date: 10/06/2011  Time: 9.30-14.30  Venue: B18, Bus. Sch. Amenities
Speaker: Various Presenters
Hosting Group: Marketing
Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Date: 08/06/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Fritz Foley (Harvard University)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

May 2011
Stock Index Returns and Shipping Freight Market Information: Yet Anoth Puzzle?
Date: 25/05/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Gulnur Muradoglu (Cass)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Ambiguity Aversion, Optimal Portfolio Choice and Market Decomposition with Rare Events
Date: 18/05/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Xing Jin (Warwick)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
From Customer to Shareholders: The Efect of Product Market Choices on Investment Decisions
Date: 11/05/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: B2, Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Samuli Knupfer (LBS)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Innovation in the Digital Economy
Date: 11/05/2011  Time: 17.30-  Venue: Sir Colin Campbell Building
Speaker: Dr Catherine Mulligan
Hosting Group: UNIEI
Optimal Hedging with Higher Moments
Date: 04/05/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Ales Cerny (Cass)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

April 2011
The Ins and Outs of a Dieting Business
Date: 13/04/2011  Time: 17.30 -  Venue: Sir Colin Campbell Building
Speaker: Rachel Hartley (NutraTech Limited (www.nutratech.co.uk))
Hosting Group: UNIEI
Cash Flow Forecasting and the Role of Earnings: A Genetic Programming Approach
Date: 06/04/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Professor Bob Berry (NUBS)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

March 2011
What is the Consumption - CAPM Missing? An Information - Theoretic Framework for the Analysis of Asset Pricing Models
Date: 30/03/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Christian Julliard (LSE)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Ethical Consumerism:
Debating Consumption Ethics.
Fostering Responsible Communities: A Community Social Marketing Approach to Sustainable Living.

Date: 29/03/2011  Time: 13.30-17.00  Venue: C2, Bus, Sch. South
Speaker: Dr Terry Newholm, Dr Caroline Moraes
Hosting Group: Marketing
Marketing in the Real World - No Sweat! Developing and Managing the Nivea Brand
Date: 29/03/2011  Time: 10.50-11.50  Venue: B52 Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Simon Edwards, Beiersdorf UK
Hosting Group: Marketing
What Death Can Tell: Are Executives Paid for their Contributions to Firm Value?
Date: 23/03/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: B11, Bus Sch. Amenities
Speaker: Bang Dang Nguyen (University of Cambridge)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Implicit Guarantees and Risk Taking Inside Financial Institutions
Date: 18/03/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: B2, Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Marcin Kacperczyk (NYU, Stern)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Sociomateriality: Bringing Social Theory Back In
Date: 17/03/2011  Time: 11.45-13.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Professor Alistair Mutch
Hosting Group: Operations Management and Information Systems
Sociomateriality: Bringing Social Theory Back In
Date: 17/03/2011  Time: 11.45-13.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Professor Alistair Mutch
Hosting Group: Management
Ratings Quality Over The Business Cycle
Date: 16/03/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Joel Shapiro (Oxford)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
TBA
Date: 08/03/2011  Time: 12.00-13.30  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Howard Smith (University of Oxford)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD: An Insider's Guide to Getting Published in International Journals
Date: 07/03/2011  Time: 10-12 noon  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Simon Linacre (Senior Publisher at Emerald Group Publishing Limited) & Sarah Roughley (Assistant Publisher on Finance and Economics Journals)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
GUEST LECTURE: Product Placement from Edouard Manet to 'The Morning'
Date: 07/03/2011  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: LT2, Exchange Building (JC)
Speaker: Graeme Atkinson, The Big Film Group
Hosting Group: Marketing
Eco-Innovation Policies: Concepts and Best Practices
Date: 04/03/2011  Time: 12.00-  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Dr Klaus Rennings (Centre for European Economics Research, Zentrum Für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW))
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
High Water Marks in Competitive Capital Markets
Date: 02/03/2011  Time: 14.30-16.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: David Musto (Wharton)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

February 2011
Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, and Financial Decision-Making
Date: 23/02/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Simon Gervais (Duke/UC-Berkeley)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Income Distribution and Housing Prices: An Assignment Model Approach
Date: 22/02/2011  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: A71, Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Marko Tervio (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Challenges and Opportunities of Being a Serial Scientific Entrepreneur
Date: 16/02/2011  Time: 17.30-19.00  Venue: Sir Colin Campbell Building
Speaker: Bruce Savage (Serial Entrepreneur)
Hosting Group: UNIEI
Micro Friction, Asset Pricing and Aggregate Implications
Date: 16/02/2011  Time: 12.30-14.00  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Xiaoji Lin (LSE)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Does Herding Behavior Reveal a Manager's Skill? An Analysis of Mutual Fund Performance
Date: 09/02/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Michela Verardo (LSE)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Government Spending, Political Cycels and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Date: 02/02/2011  Time: 12.30-14.00  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Vito Gala (LBS)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting

January 2011
Rational Price-Contingent Trading and Asset Price Dynamics
Date: 26/01/2011  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Katrin Tinn (Imperial)
Hosting Group: Finance & Accounting
Incentives for Innovation in the English NHS
Date: 12/01/2011  Time: 17.30-19.00  Venue: B03, Sir Colin Campbell Building, University Campus
Speaker: Professor Ruth McDonald (NUBS)
Hosting Group: UNIEI


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