Cherry Blossom Conference 2013
Department of Accountancy
School of Business
The George Washington University
April 5th and April 6th, 2013

 

All Conference presentations will be held at Duques 651

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Friday - April 5, 2013

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.	Lunch, Duques 650
12:30 - 12:35 p.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Sok-Hyon Kang, Vice Dean for research
12:35 - 1:00 p.m.	Keynote Speech Phil Berger - Univ. of Chicago
1:00 - 2:15 p.m.	Paper 1: Jeremiah Green "Is the Equity Market Getting Crowded? Hedge Fund Holdings and the Adaptive Market Hypothesis", Penn State
2:15 - 2:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
2:45 - 4:00 p.m.	Paper 2: Pablo Casas-Acre "The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making: The Case of Customer", Arizona State
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.	Paper 3: AlinaLerman "Other-Than-Temporary Impairments of Investment Securities by Non-Financial Firms", Yale
6:00 -7:00 p.m.	Reception Renaissance Washington
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Dinner Renaissance Washington, MT. Vernon Room

 

Saturday - April 6, 2013

7:30 - 8:15 a.m.	Breakfast
8:15 - 9:30 a.m.	Paper 4: Laura Li "Earnings Smoothing and Future Cash Flow Uncertainty", UIUC
9:30 - 9:45 a.m.	Coffee Break
9:45 - 11:00 a.m.	Paper 5: Yanfeng Xue "Does Better Corporate Governance Improve Financial Reporting Quality? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Shareholder-Sponsored Governance Proposals", GWU
11:00 - 11:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 p.m.	Paper 6: Clare Wang "Dividend Payouts and Information Shocks", Northwestern
12:30 p.m.	Boxed Lunch