The Division of Accounting and Finance has one of the most active visiting speaker programmes in the UK. Details of the first speakers for the 2009/10 seminar series are now becoming available - more will be announced soon, so please check back.

Additional seminars will then be added to the list throughout the year. Dates/times may have to be altered occasionally - please check back for updates. Some papers are available to download in Acrobat PDF or Powerpoint format.

If you have questions regarding the seminars, please contact Sangita Mistry on 0161 275 0447 or sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk


Accounting seminars 2009/10

Wednesday 7 October 2009
2-4pm, Theatre 2 Crawford House
Marco Gatti The interface of management accounting and marketing
Wednesday 28 October 2009 2-4pm, Theatre 2 Crawford House Mangala Fonseka
Department of Accounting, University of Sri Jayewardenepure, Sri Lanka
Quality circles movement in Sri Lanka
Wednesday 11 November 2009 2-4pm, Room 10.08 Harold Hankins

Yuval Millo
London School of Economics
Measuring the Market Actor
Wednesday 18 November 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1 Crawford House
Diane-Laure Arjaliès-de la Lande
ESSEC
Explaining organizational diversity when faced with institutional change: the example of Socially Responsible Investment
Wednesday 25 November 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1 Crawford House
Torkel Stromsten
Stockholm School of Economics

Shareholder value and accountability in inter-organizational relationships: Changing resource interfaces in the relationship between Ericsson and Vodafone

Wednesday 2 December 2009
2-4pm, Theatre 2 Crawford House
Heidi Sundin
UTS/University of St Andrews
Management Control Systems in a Multi-Stakeholder Environment: A study of stakeholder salience
Wednesday 17 February 2010 2-4pm, Room 10.08 Harold Hankins Ricardo Malagueno
ESADE Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull

Strategic Performance Measurement Systems Strategy Formulation and Organizational Performance

Wednesday 28 April 2-4pm, Theatre 2 Crawford House Dr Maria Major
ISCTE Business School, Lisbon
Management Accounting Change in the Portuguese Public Hospitals
Wednesday 3 March 2-4pm, Room 10.05 Harold Hankins Satoko Matsugi
Tezukayama University
Management Control as a package in Pseudo Micro-profit Centre: A field Research
Wednesday 31 March 2-4pm, Room 5.1 Crawford House

Vassili Joannides Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

Post Hofstede diversity/cultural studies: what contributions to accounting knowledge
Wednesday 12 May 2-4pm, Room 5.1 Crawford House Antonio Davilla
IESE Business School, University of Navarra
tbc
Monday 24 May
2pm, Room 5.1 Crawford House
Michael Lounsbury
University of Alberta
tbc

Finance seminars 2009/10

Wednesday 7 October 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House
Mila Getmansky
University of Massachusetts
Crises and Hedge Fund Risk
Wednesday 14 October 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House
Michela Verardo
LSE
Does Beta Move with News?
Firm-specific Information Flows and Learning about Profitability

Thursday 22 October
2pm, Room 10.02. Harold Hankins

Professor S Ghon Rhee
PhD (Finance)
Dean, SKKU Business School
Idiosyncratic Volatility and Expected Returns
Wednesday 28 October 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House
Ilias Tsiakas
University of Warwick
Spot and Forward Volatility in Foreign Exchange
Wednesday 11 November 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House
Christian Bluhm
Marie Curie ITN Advisor - Credit Risk
Rethinking Credit Risk Modeling. Lessons from the Recent Credit Crisis
Wednesday 25 November 2009 2-4pm, Theatre 2 Crawford House

Arif Khurshed
Senior Lecturer in Finance, Manchester Business School

Is AIM a Casino? A study of the survival of new listings on the UK Alternative Investment Market (AIM)

Wednesday 2 December 2009 2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House

Bart Lambrecht
University of Lancaster
A Lintner Model of Dividends and Managerial Rents
Wednesday 9 December 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House
Kevin Aretz
Lancaster University Management School

How Does A Firms Default Risk Affect Its Expected Equity Return?

Wednesday 16 December 2009
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House

Nico Dewaelheyns
Catholic University of Leuven
Capital Structure Dynamics in Private Business Groups
Wednesday 3 February 2010 2-4pm, Room 4.08, Harold Hankins Ismail Ufuk Gucbilmez Lancaster University A Theory of Debt and Equity Commitments Based on the Entrepreneur's Investment Incentives
Wednesday 10 February 2010 2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House Nick Travlos
ALBA Graduate Business School
Gains from Mergers and Acquisitions Around the World: New Evidence

Friday 12 February 2010 10-12, Room 5.1, Crawford House

Jungsuk Han
London Business School

 

Limits to Observational Learning and Feedback Loops of Price Changes: A Model of Self-Reinforcing Financial Fads
Thursday 18 February 2010 10-12, Room 5.1, Crawford House Xi Dong
Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Informational vs. Risk-Sharing Trade: A New Perspective on Home Bias
Wednesday 24 February 2010 2-4pm, Room 5.1 Crawford House Olga Kolokolova
University of Konstanz
Improved Portfolio Choice Using Second Order Stochastic Dominance
Wednesday 3 March 2010 3-5pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House Giorgio Valente
University of Leicester
tbc
Wednesday 17 March 2010 2-3.30pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House Dr Afzal Siddiqui
University College London
Optimal Investment under Operational Flexibility, Risk Aversion and Uncertainty (joint work with Michael Chronopoulos and Bert De Reyck)
Wednesday 24 March 2010 2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House Dr Amedeo De Cesari
Aston Business School
tbc
Wednesday 28 April 2010
2-4pm, Room 5.1, Crawford House
Sudipto Dasgupta
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Determinants and Real Impact of Debt Rollover: Evidence from Debt Reclassifications

 


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