Programme for the 2014 New Zealand Finance Colloquium
Thursday 13th February | Friday 14th February
13th - 14th February, 2014 download programme |
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Thursday 13th February 2014 |
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12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Session I-1: Corporate Governance |
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Reading Between the Lines: Financial Reporting, Implied Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance. |
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Does a Failure of Governance Really Matter? Stock Price Evidence from Australia |
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Inside the Network: Trading of Inside and Outside Stocks by Corporate Insiders |
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Regulatory Responses to Risks from Financial Innovation Following the GFC:
Evidence from the G20 |
1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Session II-1: Investments |
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How Practical Is Statistical Significance? |
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The Predictive Power of Dividend Yields for Stock Returns: Risk Pricing or Mispricing? |
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Predictability of Corporate Bond Returns: A Comprehensive Study |
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Optimal VWAP Tracking |
3:00pm - 3.30pm |
To Top Coffee Break |
3:30pm - 5.30pm |
Session I-2: Corporate Finance |
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The Capital Structure of Small Public Firms |
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Do Good Starts Make Good Finishes? The Case of CEO Pay |
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Earnings Management around CEO Turnovers |
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The Relationship Between Firm Growth, Firm Cash Flow Volatility, Entrepreneurship
and Values |
3:30pm - 5:30pm |
Session II-2: New Zealand Markets |
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High frequency exchange rate behaviour of the NZD/USD exchange rate in response to macroeconomic announcements |
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The Long-Run Performance of the New Zealand Stock Markets: 1899 - 2012 |
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Are CEOs Paid Like Bureaucrats? A Comparative Study of Public Sector Corporations and Publicly Listed Companies in New Zealand |
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What in the world moves NZ bond yields? |
6:00pm - 7:00pm |
To Top Drinks Sponsored by: Cengage Learning, Edify Ltd and McGraw Hill |
7:00pm - 9.00pm |
Dinner Sponsored by SIRCA |
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08:30am - 10:30am |
Session I-3: Personal Finance |
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Financial Literacy and KiwiSaver Decisions |
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Peer Effects and Asset Allocation |
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How do the Search Costs and Uncertainty Affect the Incentives to Search for Maximum Wages and Minimum Prices? |
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Financial Literacy and Participation in Risky Asset Markets: A Spurious
Relationship? |
08:30am -10:30am |
Session II-3: Investments |
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On Style-based Feedback Trading of Mutual Fund Managers |
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Is the Disposition Effect Related to Momentum in the Chinese Stock Market? |
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News Sentiment and Momentum |
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Correlation and Lead-Lag Relationships in a Hawkes Microstructure Model |
10:30am - 11:00am |
To Top Coffee Break |
11:00am - 1:00pm |
Session I-4: Corporate Finance |
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Short Sales Constraints and Price Adjustment to Earnings Announcements |
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Estimating the distribution rate for imputation credits |
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Sources of Value in Mergers and Acquisitions |
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Agency Costs of Equity and Accounting Conservatism: A Real Options Approach |
11:00am - 1:00pm |
Session II-4: NZ Markets/ Alternative Investments |
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Cross-hedging international milk-derived products |
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Growth of Bitcoin Market in New Zealand: Red Flag or Fraud? |
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Savvy Investments: Vineyard Development in New Zealand's Premier Wine Producing Region |
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Shattered Dreams: House Prices and New Zealand Monetary Policy |
1:00pm - 2:00pm |
To Top Colloquium Lunch and Prize Giving |