7th National Finance Colloquium Timetable Friday 7 February, 2003.
11.30 - 11.55	Refreshments
11.55 - 12.00	Introduction
12.00 - 12.30	Bank Creditor Recapitalisation - A New Failure Management Option? Ian Harrison Paper not available
12.30 - 1.00	The link between the Official Cash Rate (OCR) and market interest rates-A New Zealand perspective Ben Petro, John McDermott, & David Tripe Full Paper
1.00 - 1.30	Emotion, Fear and Superstition in the New Zealand Stockmarket Glenn Boyle, Andrew Hagan, Rebecca O'Connor & Nick Whitwell Full Paper
1.30 - 2.00	Break
2.00 - 2.30 Session 1	Why Warn? The Impact of Profit Warnings on Shareholder's Equity Fayez A. Elayan, Thomas O. Meyer, & Edward Sun, M.B.S. Full Paper
2.00 - 2.30 Session2	The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment: New Zealand Evidence John Wang Full Paper
2.30 - 3.00 Session 1	The NZD OIS market: An Introduction Wai Kin Choy Full Paper
2.30 - 3.00 Session 2	The Trading Behaviour of Australian Treasury Bond Futures Overnight Options and the Impact of Their Introduction Liping Zou, Lawrence C. Rose & John F. Pinfold Full Paper
3.00 - 3.30 Session 1	Accounting Irregularities, Management Compensation Structure, and Information Asymmetry Fayez A. Elayan, Jingyu Li, & Thomas O. Meyer Full Paper
3.00 - 3.30 Session 2	A Class of Nonlinear Stochastic Volatility Models and Its Implications on Pricing Currency Options Jun Yu, Zhenlin Yang, & Xibin Zhang Full Paper
3.30 - 3.50	Break
3.50 - 4.15	The Decision to Voluntarily Provide an IPO Prospectus Earnings Forecast: Theoretical Implications and Empirical Evidence Chris Bilson, Richard Heaney, John G. Powell, & Jing Shi Full Paper
4.15 - 4.40	Modelling the yield curve using orthonormalised Laguerre polynomials: An inter-temporally consistent risk-neutral approach, and an economic interpretation Leo Krippner Full Paper
4.40 - 5.05	Kalman Filter Estimates of Time-Varying Term Premia for New Zealand and Australia Michael Gordon Full Paper
5.05 - 5.30	The Purchasing of Naming Rights for Sports Stadiums: A Harbinger of Bad Corporate Governance or Just Bad Timing? Edwin D. Maberly, Raylene Pierce & Oleg Vornik Full Paper
6.30	Dinner

	Saturday 8 February, 2003.
9.00 - 9.30 Session 1	Historical Market Risk Premiums in New Zealand: 1931 - 2000 Martin Lally, & Alastair Marsden Full Paper
9.00 - 9.30 Session 2	Discussion Paper: Regulation of Investment Advisers-Implications for Professionals Giving Investment Advice Brian A. Lenehan Full Paper
9.30 - 10.00 Session 1	Profitability of Insider Trading: New Zealand Evidence Ahmad Etebari, Alireza Tourani-Rad, & Aaron Gilbert Full Paper
9.30 - 10.00 Session 2	China Stock Markets: Does Technical Analysis Incorporating Data on Volumes and Returns Provide Additional Evidence of Return Predictability? Kong-Jun Chen, & Xiaoming Li Full Paper
10.00 - 10.30 Session 1	Teaching Finance through Computer Modelling Kurt Hess Full Paper
10.00 - 10.30 Session 2	Do the New Zealand Daily Exchange Rates Behave Nonlinearly or Like Chaos Qing Xu, & Xiaoming Li Full Paper
10.30 - 11.00	Break
11.00 - 11.30	Dynamics Of Firm's Market Value, Capital Structure And Risk Tarek I. Eldomiaty Full Paper
11.30 - 12.00	Jacknifing Bond Option Prices Peter Phillips, & Jun Yu Full Paper
12.00 - 1.00	Panel Discussion on Performance Based Research Funding with Steve Maharey (Minister of Education)
1.00 - 1.30	Lunch
1.30	Business Meeting