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CEAR Seminar Room - RCB 1112 - from 1:15 – 2:45pm

RCB 1100 - from 2:00 – 3:30pm Download Paper This paper examines the determinants of equity price risk for a large sample of non-financial corporations in the United States from 1964 to 2008. We estimate both structural and reduced form models to exami… more »

RCB 1200 - from 2:00 – 3:30 Download Paper The American Jobs Creation Act (AJCA) significantly lowered US firms' tax cost when accessing their unrepatriated foreign earnings. Using this temporary shock to the cost of internal financing, we examine the… more »

ALC 432 - from 10.30am - 12.00pm Download Paper While academic and practitioner literature has advocated the use of real options in firms’ longterm investment appraisal processes, few studies have examined the extent to which real options are incorpora… more »

RCB 1200, from 1:30 – 3:00 Download Paper We investigate three facets of cross-sectional variation in the risk of stock price crashes: actual crash incidence, and two predictors of that risk, accounting opacity and the option smirk curve. We show that… more »

RCB 1200 - from 2:00 – 3:30 Download Paper Recent genetic evidence shows that fundamental economic attitudes, such as risk aversion and altruism, are largely determined by unspecified environmental factors. Using random assignment of MBA students to pee… more »

RCB 1100 - from 10:30 – 12:00pm

RCB 1100 - from 10:30am - 12:00pm Download Paper This paper introduces the concepts of amount and speed of a discounting procedure. Exponential discounting sequesters both concepts into a single parameter that needs to be disaggregated in order to char… more »

AYSPS 749 - from 3:00 - 4:30pm Download Paper This lecture describes the current state of the art in modeling risk attitudes as the result of interactions between empirically oriented psychologists, theoretically oriented economists, and technically or… more »

Download Program Details The Center for Financial Innovation and Stability (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) and the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (Georgia State University) are organizing the conference “The Impact of Extraordinary Monetary… more »