Programme for the 15th New Zealand Finance Colloquium
All sessions are held at the University of Canterbury in Commerce Building, which is located in the main Campus.
Thursday 10th February | Friday 11th February
10th - 11th February, 2011 download programme |
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Thursday 10th February 2011 |
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12:30pm -1:30pm |
Registration and Lunch |
1:30pm - 3:15pm |
Session 1A: Capital Markets and Regulation |
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Enforcement and Disclosure Under Regulation FD: An Empirical Analysis Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis |
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Moving between opposite short-selling regimes: Are stock characteristics priced differently? Min Bai, Massey University |
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Do Criminal Sanctions Deter Insider Trading Bart Frijns, AUT University |
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Insightful Insiders? Insider Trading and Stock Return Around Debt Covenant Violation Disclosures Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis |
1:30pm - 3:15pm |
Session 1B: Corporate Governance |
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Financial Development, Corporate Governance and Cost of Equity Capital Kartick Gupta , AUT University |
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Thu Phuong Truong, University of Waikato |
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Do Better Corporate Governance Practices Reduce Risks? Hardjo Koerniadi, AUT University |
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Agency Theory, Corporate Governance and Dividend Policy Payout in New Zealand Helen Roberts, University of Otago |
3:15pm - 3:45pm |
Afternoon Tea |
3:45pm - 5:30pm |
Session 2A: Corporate Finance I |
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Stanley Paulo, Lincoln University |
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Stock Dividend Puzzles in China Hamish Anderson, Massey University |
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Framing and Disposition Effects in Stockholders’ Dividend Preferences James Murray |
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Dealing with Trading Thinness in Event Studies: an improved Trade-to-trade Model Warwick Anderson, University of Canterbury |
3:45pm - 5:30pm |
Session 2B: Investments I |
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Return Predictability When News Means Different Things in Different Times Ben Jacobsen, Massey University |
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The Optimal Exit Date from a Defined Benefits Pension Scheme Martin Lally, Victoria University |
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Asymmetric extreme tails and prospective utility of momentum returns Russell Gregory-Allen, Massey University |
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Is There a Speculative Bubble in the Price of Gold? Jedrzej Bialkowski, University of Canterbury |
7:00pm - |
Gala Dinner |
Friday 11th February 2011To Top |
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8:30am - 10:15am |
Session 3A: Corporate Finance II |
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Cultural Values, CEO Risk Aversion and Corporate Takeovers Bart Frijns, AUT University |
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The Economic Impact of Capital Expenditures: Environmental Regulatory Delay as Carolyn Wirth, Massey University |
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The Competing-risk Analysis of post-IPO Delistings Jun Chen, AUT University |
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The Effect of Differences of Opinion and Valuation Uncertainty on the Pricing of Michael Keefe, Victoria University |
8.30am - 10:15am |
Session 3B: Capital Markets I |
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Are Monthly Seasonals Real? A Three Century Perspective Ben Jacobsen, Massey University |
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Political Risk, Trade, and Capital Allocation Art Durnev, McGill University |
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Shareholders’ Wealth Effects of International Cross-Listings Olga Dodd, AUT University |
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Can Liquidity Shifts Explain the Lockup Expiration Effect in Stock Returns? Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti, University of Southern Queensland |
8.30am - 10:15am |
Session 3C: Banking |
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Moderating Risk in New Zealand Retail Banks William Wilson, Massey University |
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and income smoothing Azira Abdul Adzis, Massey University |
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Why is US dollar bond funding for banks more expensive? Chris Single, University of Auckland |
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Ideology or Economics: Government Banking in New Zealand Andrew Cardow, Massey University |
10:15am - 10:45am |
Morning Tea |
10.45am - 12:30pm |
Session 4A: Asia-Pacific Capital Markets |
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An Empirical Cross-Section Analysis of Stock Returns on the Chinese A-Share
Christopher Gan, Lincoln University |
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Cash Flow Volatility Premia for New Zealand Equities Sasha Zaric, Massey University |
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The volatility effect in the Hong Kong stock market Ji Wu, Lincoln University |
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The Valuation of Equity Futures on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 1920-1923 Toby Daglish, Victoria University |
10:45am - 12:30pm |
Session 4B: Investments II |
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Passing On Family Values: Informed Trading through Accounts of Children Henk Berkman, University of Auckland |
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Ben Marshall, Massey University |
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How will households adjust their consumption and investment decisions under longevity risk? Joseph J. Tien, Tamkang University |
10:45am - 12:30pm |
Session 4C: Quantitative Finance |
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Fixed come hell or high water? Selection and prepayment of fixed rate mortgages Toby Daglish, Victoria University |
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A dynamic manner-specific hazard approach to investigate the impairment of property-casualty insurers Huong Dang, University of Canterbury |
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Risk Appetite, Carry Trade and Exchange Rate Ming-Hua Liu, University of Macau |
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch, Award Ceremony |