Research

Frank Batten Young Scholars Conference

June 11-12, 2004

Contact person: Audra Boone or Julie Agnew

Frank Batten is the retired chairman of Landmark Communications, Inc. and TeleCable Corporation. Currently he is chairman of the executive committee of Landmark. He serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Business at the College of William & Mary.

Tentative Schedule:
*All sessions will be held in room 334 BLOW Hall (see below for campus map).

 

Friday, June 11

Saturday, June 12

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Blow Hall  334)

Continental Breakfast (Blow Hall 334)

9:00 a.m.

Evgeny Lyandres: The effects of financial constraints on investment timing
Discussant: Thomas Moeller

Heather Tookes: Information, Trading and Product Market Interactions: Cross-Sectional Implications of Insider Trading
Discussant: James Weston

10:00 a.m.

Arzu Ozoguz: Good times or bad times: Investors' uncertainty and stock returns
Discussant: Alex Butler

Matt Barcaskey:  Do SEC Regulations Constrain Offer Price Revisions of IPOs?
Discussant: Jorg Rocholl

11:00 a.m.

Dirk Hackbarth: Capital Structure, Credit Risk, and Macroeconomic Conditions
Discussant: David Robinson

Huseyin Gulen: Closing Time? The Determinants and Effects Of Mutual Fund Closures

12:00  noon

Lunch

Lunch

1:30  p.m.

Audra Boone:  The Determinants of Corporate Board Size and Composition: An Empirical Analysis

David Robinson: The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm

2:20 p.m.

Jorg Rocholl: Discriminatory Auctions in which the Seller has Discretion

Akin Sayrak: The Impact of Analyst Coverage Initiation on the Market's Ability to Anticipate Future Earnings

3:00 p.m.

James Weston: Pseudo Market Timing, the Maturity of Corporate Debt, and the Predictability of Bond Returns

Alex Butler: Distance Still Matters: Evidence from Municipal Bond Underwriting and
Corruption and Municipal Finance

3:40 p.m.

Julie Agnew: An Analysis of How Individuals React to Market Returns in One 401(k) Plan

 

6:30 p.m.

Dinner

Dinner

*All presentations should be roughly 45 minutes, while discussions should be roughly 10 minutes.  
A five-minute break has been scheduled after each paper.

Information on local airports and shuttles.

For your convenience, a campus map can be found here.

A website for the conference hotel can be found here.