Young Finance Scholars Conference

Conference schedule 2016

Corporate Debt: Markets and Instruments
Thursday 9 June 2016

Conference schedule

8.30am-9.15am

Coffee and Registration - Jubilee G30

9.15am-9.30am

Welcome Adress

Delegates who wish to only attend the workshop may register separately

9.30am-10.30am

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Corporate Debt I
Default Risk (Douglas Cumming)

Jubilee 115

9.30am-10am

Zhiyao Chen Distress Risk, Bargaining Power, and Stock Returns [PDF 648.44KB]

10am-10.30am

Maximilian Schreiter - Modeling Dynamic Redemption and Default Risk for LBO Evaluation-A Boundary Crossing Approach [PDF 2.24MB]

Corporate Debt II
Bonds (Wolfgang Aussenegg)

Jubilee 116

9.30am-10am

Luca Blasi - Liquidity risk and market shock-an event study on emerging market corporate bonds [PDF 4.66MB]

10am-10.30am

Abdel Razzaq Al Rababa'A - Stock-Bond Return Dynamic Correlation and Macroeconomic Announcements [PDF 1.59MB]

Corporate Finance I
Earnings Management (Marc Goergen)

Jubilee 117

9.30am-10am

Lokman Tutuncu - MANAGEMENT BUYOUTS, FAMILY SUCCESSION AND IMPACT ON EARNINGS MANAGEMENT [PDF 588.50KB]

10am-10.30am

Liang Xu - Real Earnings Management, Loan Interest Rates, and Performance Pricing Provisions [PDF 1.21MB]

Corporate Finance II
Leverage and Dividends (Mike Osborne)

Jubilee 155

9.30am-10am

Anna Grosman - DIVIDEND DECISIONS OF UK FIRMS-WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW? [PDF 499.52KB]

10am-10.30am

Shengfeng Li - Is firm leverage ratio a residual of the other financial policies [PDF 840.52KB]

Trading, Risk and Investments
Market Risk (Carol Alexander)

Jubilee G31

9.30am-10am

Nader Virk - European equity market integration and joint relationship of conditional Volatility and Correlations [PDF 4.67MB]

10am-10.30am

Hsuan Fu - International Spillovers of Monetary Policy to Asset Prices [PDF 812.16KB]

10.30am-11am

Tea/Coffee Break

11am-12.30pm

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Corporate Debt I
Markets and Istitutions (Douglas Cumming)

Jubilee 115

11am-11.30am

Nourhan MM Eid - Income Rounding and Loan Performance in Peer-to-Peer Market [PDF 724.20KB]

11.30am-12pm

Laura McCann - The market reaction to borrowing announcements- UK evidence surrounding the global financial crisis [PDF 491.26KB]

12pm-12.30pm

Xuan Zhang - Exploring the Determinants of Credit Risk of General Insurance Firms in the United Kingdom [PDF 993.60KB]

Corporate Debt II
Emerging Markets (Ranko Jelic)

Jubilee 116

11am-11.30am

Tho Pham - Multimarket Competition and Profitability, Evidence from Ukrainian banking [PDF 837.86KB]

11.30am-12pm

Malgorzata Sulimierska - Capital Account Liberalization and Currency Crisis in Post-Communistic economies [PDF 541.34KB]

12pm-12.30pm

Nuno Moutinho - Do the types of financial system, corporate governance system and legal system of the borrower’s country influence the interest rate spread of syndicated loans?

Corporate Finance I
IPO & Performance (Marc Goergen)

Jubilee 117

11am-11.30am

Wasim Ahmad - Lockups and Long-Run IPO Performance [PDF 793.17KB]

11.30am-12pm

Paul Dion - Is cost of equity a mere function of leverage? The case of the bond IPO [PDF 681.36KB]

12pm-12.30pm

Daniel Powell - CASH HOLDINGS, AGENCY CONFLICTS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF LISTED FAMILY FIRMS IN GERMANY [PDF 580.11KB]

Corporate Finance II
CEO (Ephraim Clark)

Jubilee 155

11am-11.30am

Ali Bayat - Does CEO’s Holding of Vested Options Measure Overconfidence [PDF 439.55KB]

11.30am-12pm

Chia Ying Chan - The Role of CEO Perquisites in Firm Cash holding A US case [PDF 619.51KB]

12pm-12.30pm

Paula Castro Castro - The Incentives of Creditors to Monitor via Debt Specialization-The Impact of CEO Horizons Compensation [PDF 795.21KB]

Trading, Risk and Investments
Trading (Carol Alexander)

Jubilee G31

11am-11.30am

Laura Delaney - Equilibrium Investment in High-Frequency Trading Technology [PDF 338.85KB]

11.30am-12pm

Dimitrios Stafylas - Hedge Fund Performance Persistence and Mixed Trading Strategies [PDF 1.26MB]

12pm-12.30pm

Haicheng Shu - A Macro-Finance Model for Crude Oil Futures Prices in the Real Economy [PDF 444.76KB]

12.30pm-2pm

Lunch and Poster session

2pm-3.30pm

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Corporate Debt I
Bank Loans (David Storey)

Jubilee 115

2pm-2.30pm

Yousef Makhlouf -Two Faces of Financial Systems- markets stimulate growth, banks smooth exogenous shocks [PDF 605.34KB]

2.30pm-3pm

Orkun Saka - Domestic banks as lightning rods Home bias during Eurozone crisis [PDF 876.27KB]

3pm-3.30pm

Wan-Chien Chiu - Debt Maturity and Cost of Bank Loans [PDF 1.19MB]

Corporate Debt II
Credit Ratings (Ranko Jelic)

Jubilee 116

2.30pm-3pm

Jonatan Groba - Foreign Monetary Policy and Firm's default risk [PDF 811.88KB]

3pm-3.30pm

Nathan Dong - Credit Quality Signaling through Government Ownership [PDF 962.37KB]

Corporate Finance I
International (Wolfgang Aussenegg)

Jubilee 117

2pm-2.30pm

Zhenyi Huang - The Impact of Corporate Cultural Distance on Mergers and Acquisitions [PDF 2.44MB]

2.30pm-3pm

Suparna Ray - How international orientation of top managerial teams may (not) moderate the performance of serial acquirers? [PDF 600.78KB]

3pm-3.30pm

Dooruj Rambaccussing - Expected Returns and Expected Dividend Growth in Europe-Institutional and Financial Determinants [PDF 641.39KB]

Corporate Finance II
Behavioural (Ephraim Clark)

Jubilee 155

2pm-2.30pm

Xin Li - The Role of Hormones in Financial Markets [PDF 611.77KB]

2.30pm-3pm

Zhe An - Individualism and Stock Price Crash Risk

3pm-3.30pm

Jinsha Zhao - Inside Debt and Managerial Risk Taking [PDF 311.84KB]

Trading, Risk and Investments
Quantitative Finance (Andreas Kaeck)

Jubilee G31

2pm-2.30pm

Nuria Alemany - Lead-lag relationship between spot and futures stock indexes. [PDF 277.22KB]

2.30pm-3pm

Yuqian Zhao - An exploration of momentum-sorted cross section return in Chinese stock market [PDF 1.38MB]

3pm-3.30pm

Yang Han - Statistican and empirical properties of factor model quantile simulation. [PDF 1.14MB]

3.30pm-4.30pm

Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Session

4.30pm-5.30pm

Round table Discussions

5.30pm-6pm

Awards

6pm-6.45pm

Drinks and Networking Reception- Bramber House

6.45pm-10pm

Conference Dinner - Bramber House

Lunch and refreshments will be provided during the conference. Please let us know if you wish to attend the conference dinner, for which there is an additional charge of £30.

Registration

Contact

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions or have any special requests regarding the conference schedule:
E N.Karouzakis@sussex.ac.uk
E Ding.Chen@sussex.ac.uk