Finance workshop
20/01/2012 09:00 - 17:00 hrs. NBB's seminar room Stormstraat / rue de l'Assaut 61, 1000 Brussel
09:00 Coffee
Finance and institutions — Chair: Piet Sercu, KU Leuven FBE and LSM
09:30 Government Strength and Financial Reforms — Thomas Lambert, LSM at UCLouvain
Discussant: Gael Imad Eddine, Lille2/Skema
10:15 Suffrage institutions and financial development — Thomas Lambert, LSM at UCLouvain and Armin Schwienbacher, Lille2/Skema
Discussant: Helen Bollaert, Lille2/Skema
11:00 Coffee break
Financial Markets and Investments — Chair: Isabelle Platten, LSM
11:20 Intraday Liquidity Dynamics and Price Movements — Paolo Mazza, LSM
Discussant: Gunther Wuyts, KULeuven FBE
11:55 Seasonal Asset Allocation: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows — Mark Kamstra, Lisa Kramer, Maurice Levi, and Russell Wermers.
Discussant: Devraj Basu, Skema at Antipolis
12:40 Lunch break
13:40 Seasonally Varying Preferences: Theoretical Foundations for an Empirical Regularity — Mark Kamstra, Lisa Kramer, Maurice Levi, and Tan Wang
Discussant: Piet Sercu, KULeuven FBE and LSM
Corporate Financing — Chair: Devraj Basu, Lille2/skema
14:205 What determines the market share of investment banks in Chinese domestic IPOs? — Nancy Huyghebaert and Weidong Xu, FEB KULeuven
Discussant: Marc Deloof, U Antwerp and LSM-CESAM
15:10 Coffee break
15:30 Formal, Informal or Co-Funding? Evidence on the Financing of Chinese Firms — Hans Degryse, KULeuven, CentER Tilburg and CEPR; Liping Liu, CentER Tilburg; Steven Ongena, CentER Tilburg and CEPR
Discussant: Nancy Huyghebaert, FEB KULeuven
16:15 M&A outcomes and Willingness to sell — Eric de Bodt, Jean-Gabriel Cousin, and Irina Demidova de Bruyne, Lille2/Skema
Discussant: Katrien Craninckx, Lessius and FEB KULeuven
17:00 Drinks
https://www.econ.kuleuven.be/drc/afi/3LJan12__program-NBB.pdf
