College of Business | Finance | SunTrust Visiting Professor Speaker Series

			Department of Finance		Location & Hours Address, RBA 311 M-F, 8am-5pm Map Contact send e-mail 850/644-4220 personnel

If you would like to be advised of seminars please contact Bruce Haslem at bhaslem@cob.fsu.edu.

Date	Time	Location	Name	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 15	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Rich Rosen	Chicago FRB	Mergers and Risk
Sept. 20	3:45 pm	101 LOV	Steve Perfect	FPL Energy Power Marketing	Power Marketing and Trading: Why We Need Quants
Oct. 27	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Utpal Bhattacharya	Indiana U.	"Is Stock Picking Declining Around the World?"
Nov. 17	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Steve Figlewski	New York U.	Modeling the Effect of Macroeconomic Factors on Corporate Default and Credit Rating Transitions
Jan. 10	12:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Zoran Ivkovich	Univ. of Illinois	"Old" Money Matters: The Sensitivity of Mutual Fund Redemption Decisions to Past Performance†
Jan. 19	1:00 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Gonul Colak	Wichita State Univ.	Cycles in the IPO Market
Jan. 22	12:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Chris Parsons	Univ. of Texas	On the Strategy and Profits of Trade-Based Market Manipulation
Jan. 26	1:00 pm	Starry Conf. Center	David Cicero	Univ. of Georgia	Timing and Backdating of Executive Stock Option Exercises Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Feb. 16	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Bill Megginson	U. Oklahoma	Dividend Policy in the European Union
Feb. 23	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Mark Flannery	University of Florida	"What Can We Learn About Capital Structure from Bond Credit Spreads?"
Mar. 16	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Mara Faccio	Vanderbilt	"The Quality of Accounting Information in Politically Connected Firms"
Mar. 30	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	James Linck	U. Georgia	Postponed!
Apr. 20	1:30 pm	Starry Conf. Center	Ken Lehn	U. Pittsburgh	Postponed!