Seminar

Dr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton) Title: The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania

Professor Nathan Sussman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Title: Institutions, Deficits or Wars, on the determinants of the borrowing costs of the British government: 1688-1820

Prof Andrew Harvey (Faculty of Economics) Title: Exponential Conditional Volatility Models

Prof James Rogers (Boston College Law School and Herbert Smith Visitor) Title: Securities Holding Through Intermediaries: Implications for Corporate Governance and Conflict of Laws.

Dr Steven Devaney (University of Aberdeen) presenting. Title: Efficiency in the UK commercial office market Outline: The paper considers the informational efficiency of the UK commercial property market through an analysis of price multipliers and a set of theoretical price determinants from the City of London office...

Dr Lisa Goh (LSE) presenting. Title: Executive Pensions and Excess Compensation Abstract: Existing academic research in accounting, finance and corporate governance areas has largely ignored pensions as an element of the executive compensation. Measures of total executive compensation have generally omitted values of final...

Dr Quoc-Anh Do (Singapore Management University) presenting. Title: Politicians and Directors in Social Networks: RDD Evidence from Close Elections Abstract: This paper investigates whether firms benefit from political connections from social networks. We focus on the networks of classmates and alumni among US-market...

Cristo Karuna (University of Houston) presenting. Title: CEO reputation and internal corporate governance Abstract: This study examines how CEO reputation affects internal governance strength in firms. Drawing from several streams of research in economics, finance, and accounting, I generate several competing hypotheses on...

Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde) presenting. Title: Forecasting Inflation Using Dynamic Model Averaging

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