European Financial Management Association
2014 Annual Meetings
June 25-28, 2014
Rome, ITALY
Candidate Paper Listings
GROUP #1: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Political Connections in Merger and Acquisition Framework
Amna Noor Chaudhry, University of Glasgow
Email: a.noor-chaudhry.1@research.gla.ac.uk
National Culture and Acquisition Choices (PDF Version)
Zhe (Andrew) An, Australian School of Business
Email: zhe.an@unsw.edu.au
Social Ties in the Making of an M&A Deal (PDF Version)
Gül Demirtas , Sabanci University
Email: guldemirtas@sabanciuniv.edu
Ownership Structure and Firm Value: Evidence from Mergers of Institutional Investors
Florian Muenkel , University of Washington
Email: muenkel@uw.edu
Empirical Essays on Performance and Survivals of Buyouts
Lokman Tutuncu , University of Birmingham
Email: lxt961@bham.ac.uk
Women on Board: Boardroom Gender Diversity and Firm's Risk (PDF Version)
Ben Sila Vathunyoo , University of Edinburgh
Email: v.sila@sms.ed.ac.uk
GROUP #2: CAPITAL MARKETS & ASSET PRICING
Beyond the Disposition Effect: Evidence from the 1999-2012 period (PDF Version)
Bellofatto Anthony , Université Catholique de Louvain
Email: anthony.bellofatto@uclouvain.be
Learning behaviour of individual investors: Evidence from a financial betting market
Tomás Ó Briain , University of Edinburgh
Email: tobriain@gmail.com
International Return Predictability and the Term Structure of Risk (PDF Version)
Julien Pénasse , ESSEC Business School
Email: julien.penasse@essec.edu
Asset Pricing Factors; Biases and Heuristics
Ahmed Sami E. Ibrahim, Loughborough University
Email: A.Sami@lboro.ac.uk
Differential Effects of Law, Culture and Political Risk on Fees, Performance and Risk-taking Behavior of Mutual Fund Managers (PDF Version)
Meryem Mehri, Paris Dauphine University
Email: meryem.mehri@dauphine.fr
State Dependent Preferences and the Equity Premium Puzzle: A Different Perspective (PDF Version)
Sara Nada, University of Rome "Tor Vergata
Email: sara_nada14@hotmail.com
GROUP #3: FINANCING & HEDGING DECISIONS
Long-Term Performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): The Role of Lockups
Wasim Ahmad, University of Birmingham
Email: wxa855@bham.ac.uk
The Value of Waiting to Issue Debt (PDF Version)
Babak Lotfaliei, McGill University
Email: Babak.lotfaliei@mail.mcgill.ca; blotfalie@yahoo.com
The Impact of Borrowing Diversity on Firm Value, Financing and Real Decisions (PDF Version)
Angel Tengulov, VGSF (Vienna Graduate School of Finance)
Email: angel.tengulov@wu.ac.at
The Determinants of Corporate Hedging: Evidence from Financial Crisis
Bola Babajide, Hull University Business School UK
Email: bola.o.babajide@gmail.com
Replicating Intergenerational Risk Sharing in Financial Market (PDF Version)
Enareta Kurtbegu, University of Evry-Val d'Essonne
Email: enareta.kurtbegu@univ-evry.fr
Two Essays on the Low Volatility Anomaly (PDF Version)
Tim Riley, University of Kentucky
Email: Tim.Riley@uky.edu
