February 7: Anand Goel (NYU) and Anjan Thakor (University of Michigan) ?Green with Envy: Implications for Corporate Investment Distortions Finance? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

February 14: Rakesh Bali (Adelphi University) and Hany Guirguis (Manhattan College) ?Reexamining the Volatility and Excess Market Returns in GARCH-M: Extreme Observations and Non-Normality? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

February 21: (No Seminar)

February 28: (Department Meeting, 3:00 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall)

March 7: Andrew Spieler, Carl Gwin (Baylor University), Seow Ong (National University of Singapore) and Tien Sing (National University of Singapore) ?Oligopolistic Pricing in Residential Property Development: Experimental Evidence? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

March 14: Keifi Li (Merrill Lynch & Co and NYU) and Yakov Amihud (NYU) ?The Declining Information Content of Dividend Announcements and the Effect of Institutional Holdings? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

March 21: George Papaioannou, Nickolaos Travlos (ALBA, Greece and Cardiff Business School, UK) and K.G. Viswanathan ?Listing Changes: Timing or Signaling? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

March 28: Yaap Spronk (Erasmus University, Netherlands) ?Framework and Methods for Performance Evaluation? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

April 4: Steve Krull ?Mutual Fund Performance - What Really Matters: Style or Risk?? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

April 11: (Eastern Finance Association Meeting)

April 18: (Spring Recess)

April 25: (Department Meeting)

May 2: David Sessions ?Determining the Influence of a Missing, Correlated Variable in a Regression Model? 1:30 PM, Room 304 Weller Hall

May 9: (Open)