Global  Finance  Academy  Conference  
Wednesday  May  26,  2010  
 
 
   
May  26th   CONFERENCE  DAY  AGENDA  
(Wednesday)   Location:  Laurence  Crowley  Boardroom  
 UCD  Michael  Smurfit  Graduate  Business  School  
   Caryfort  Avenue,  Blackrock,  Co.Dublin  
 
   
9.00  am   Continental  Breakfast  (served  in  the  foyer)  
 
   
9.50  am   Welcoming  Remarks    
Tom  Begley,  Dean  of  UCD  School  of  Business  
 
   
10.00  am   Speakers  
 
Michael  Brennan,  UCLA,  Anderson  School  of  Management  
"Agency  and  Institutional  Investment"  
 
Christopher  Polk,  London  School  of  Economics    
"Connected  Stocks"  
 
Cal  Muckley,  UCD,  Michael  Smurfit  Graduate  Business  School    
"Corporate  Payout  Policy  in  Japan  alongside  International  Evidence"  
 
   
12.15  pm   Lunch  Interval  
 
   
2.00  pm   Speakers    
 
Matt  Spiegel,  Yale  School  of  Management  
"Mutual  Fund  Risk  and  Market  Share  Adjusted  Fund  Flows"  
 
Bart  Lambrecht,  University  of  Lancaster    
"A  Lintner  model  of  Dividends  and  Managerial  Rents"  
 
Hassan  Tehranian,  Carroll  School  of  Management,  Boston  College    
"Dividends,  Maturity,  and  Acquisitions:  Evidence  from  a  Sample  of  Bank  
IPOs”  
 
   
3.55  pm   Closing  remarks    
Hassan  Tehranian,  Carroll  School  of  Management,  Boston  College  
 
 

This  event  is  supported  by  UCD,  the  School  of  Professional  Finance  in  the  Institute  of  Bankers,  and  the  Science                                                        
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Foundation  Ireland  funded  research  cluster,  Financial  Mathematics  and  Computation  (FMC )