Session 1 : IPO and M&A (09:30~11:30)
Chair : Beom-Sik Jang (Soongsil Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Heated Negotiation within the Syndicate and IPOs Jin Q Jeon (Dongguk Univ.)
Jin S. Kim (Kyungpook National Univ.)
Cheolwoo Lee (Ferris State Univ.)		 Jung-Wook Kim
(Seoul National Univ.)
The Market for Corporate Control in Emerging Economy: Disciplining Mechanism or Tunneling Device? Hee Sub Byun (Korea Univ.)
Woojin Kim (Seoul National Univ.)
Eun Jung Lee (Hanyang Univ.)
Kyung Suh Park (Korea Univ.)		 Kyojik “Roy” Song
(Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Private Equity Investors as Monitors: Evidence from the Partial Acquisitions Market Yun W. Park (Chung-Ang Univ.) Ji-Woong Chung
(Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity Ji-Woong Chung (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
Berk A. Sensoy (Ohio State Univ.)
Lea H. Stern (Ohio State Univ.)
Michael S. Weisbach
(Ohio State Univ. and NBER)		 Kuan-Hui Lee
(Seoul National Univ.)


Session 2 : Derivatives (09:30~11:30)
Chair : Robert Webb (KAIST)
Title Author Discussant
Dividend-rollover Effect & the Ad Hoc Black Scholes Model Youngsoo Choi (Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies)
Steven J. Jordan (Econometric Solutions)
Soon Chan Ok (e*Value)		 Hyun Kyung Kim
(Statistics Korea)
What Drives Option Prices? Riadh Zaatour (Ecole Centrale Paris)
Frederic Abergel (Ecole Centrale Paris)		 Youngsoo Choi
(Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies)
Cross-section of Option Returns and Stock Volatility Jie Cao (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
Bing Han (Univ. of Texas at Austin)		 Sol Kim
(Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies)
Asymmetric Price Distribution and Bid-Ask Quotes in the Stock Options Market Kalok Chan (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology)
Y. Peter Chung (Univ. of California)		 Jaehyun Lee
(Soongsil Univ.)


Session 3 : International Finance (09:30~11:30)
Chair : J. B. Chay (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Sources of Momentum Profits in International Stock Markets Kyung-In Park (Korea Univ.)
Dongcheol Kim (Korea Univ.)		 Daehwan Kim
(Konkuk Univ.)
Creditor Rights and Capital Structure: Evidence from International Data Sadok El Ghoul (Univ. of Alberta)
Omrane Guedhami (Univ. of South Carolina)
Seong-Soon Cho (Ewha Womans Univ.)
Jungwon Suh (Ewha Womans Univ.)		 Jang woo Lee
(Pusan National Univ.)
Information Asymmetry and the Timing of Capital Issuance: An International Examination April M. Knill (Florida State Univ.)
Bong-Soo Lee (Florida State Univ.)		 Eun Jung Lee
(Hanyang Univ.)


Session 4 : Liquidity and Information (09:30~11:30)
Chair : Dosoung Choi (Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of Korea)
Title Author Discussant
Pricing of Liquidity Risks by Alternative Liquidity Measures Sunho Kim (Korea Univ.)
Kuan-Hui Lee (Seoul National Univ.)		 Paul Moon Sub Choi
(Ewha Womans Univ.)
Liquidity Crisis and Risk Premiums Jaehoon Lee (Univ. of Illinois) Jay M. Chung
(Soongsil Univ.)
Market Inefficiency and Learning Behavior: The Case of Sports Lottery Joon Ho Hwang (Korea Univ.) Albert Lee Chun
(Copenhagen Business School)
Information Content of Unsolicited Ratings: Evidence from Japanese Firms Soku Byoun (Baylor Univ.)
Yoon S. Shin (Loyola Univ.)		 Kwangwoo Park
(KAIST)


Session 5 : Boards (14:00~15:30)
Chair : Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: The Role of Outside Directors Sung Wook Joh (Seoul National Univ.)
Jin-Young Jung (Cornell Univ.)		 Dong Wook Lee
(Korea Univ.)
From Backroom to Boardroom: Role of Government Directors in Corporate Governance and Firm Performance Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological Univ.)
Le Zhang (Univ. of New South Wales)		 Jungwon Suh
(Ewha Womans Univ.)
Do Older Boards Affect Firm Performance? An Empirical Analysis Based on Japanese Firms Makoto Nakano (Hitotsubashi Univ.)
Pascal Nguyen (Univ. of Technology Sydney)		 Young Sang Kim
(Northern Kentucky Univ.)


Session 6 : Funds (14:00~15:30)
Chair : Sang Lyong Joo (Hongik Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Partial Adjustment, Learning, and the Smart Money Effect in Young Funds in the Korean Marketplace Sungbin Cho (Korea Development Institute)
Inseok Shin (Chung-Ang Univ.)		 Lorenzo Casavecchia
(Univ. of Technology Sidney)
Cross Trading and the Cost of Conflicts of Interest of Mutual Fund Advisers Lorenzo Casavecchia (Univ. of Technology Sydney)
Ashish Tiwari (Univ. of Iowa)		 Inseok Shin
(Chung-Ang Univ.)
Do Hedge Funds Have Information Advantages? Evidence from Hedge Fund Stock Holdings Kee-Hong Bae (York Univ.)
Bok Baik (Seoul National Univ.)
Jin-Mo Kim (Rutgers Univ.)		 Noolee Kim
(Hanyang Univ.)


Session 7 : Corporate Governance (14:00~15:30)
Chair : Chang-Soo Kim (Yonsei Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
How Does Cross-Holding Affect Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting? Hyo Jin Kim (Jeonju Univ.)
Soon Suk Yoon (Chonnam National Univ.)		 Yan Li
(Korea Univ.)
Is Business Group Structure Inefficient?: A Long-Term Perspective Chang-Soo Kim
(Yonsei Univ.)		 Soon Suk Yoon
(Chonnam National Univ.)
Corporate Governance and Diversification Kimberly C. Gleason
(Florida Atlantic Univ.)
Inho Kim
(Univ. of Cincinnati)
Yong H. Kim
(Univ. of Cincinnati)
Young Sang Kim
(Northern Kentucky Univ.)		 Joon Ho Hwang
(Korea Univ.)


Session 8 : Investments (14:00~15:30)
Chair : Dongcheol Kim (Korea Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Returns to Buying Positive Attention and Selling Negative Attention Suk Joon Byun (KAIST)
Sang Hyun Yun (KAIST)		 Jianfeng Hu
(Baruch College CUNY,
National Univ. of Singapore)
Technical Analysis, Momentum and Autocorrelation K. J. Hong
(Univ. of Cambridge)
S. Satchell
(Univ. of Cambridge)		 Jaehoon Lee
(Univ. of Illinois)
Does Option Trading Convey Stock Price Information? Jianfeng Hu
(Baruch College CUNY,
National Univ. of Singapore)		 Olfa Maalaoui
(KAIST)


Session 9 : Financing and Payout (15:45~17:45)
Chair : Sang Bin Lee (Hanyang Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Does National Culture Influence the Firm’s Choice of Debt Maturity? Kiyoung Chang
(Univ. of South Florida-Sarasota)
Jung-Bum Wee
(Kyung Hee Univ.) Ha-Chin Yi
(Texas State Univ. and Kyung Hee Univ.)		 Jungsoon Shin
(Ewha Womans Univ.)
Managerial Entrenchment and Open-Market Share Repurchases: The Case of Taiwan Ruei-Shian Wu
(Yuan Ze Univ.)		 Changmin Lee
(Kookmin Univ.)
The Value of Option to Pay Dividend Chaehwan Won
(Sogang Univ.)		 Jung Bum Wee
(Kyung Hee Univ.)
Has the Value of Cash Increased Over Time? Ji-Woong Chung (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
Boochun Jung (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)
DuRi Park (Ohio State Univ.)		 Kaun Y. Lee
(Chung-Ang Univ.)


Session 10 : Portfolio Performance and Asset Allocation (15:45~17:45)
Chair : Chang-Soo Hur (Univ. of Seoul)
Title Author Discussant
Portfolio Performance Evaluation with Leptokurtic Asset Returns Chou-Wen Wang
(National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Science and Technology) Chin-Wen Wu
(Nanhua Univ.)
Yang-Cheng Chen
(National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Science and Technology)		 Changjun Lee
(Kwangwoon Univ.)
Out-of-sample Predictions of Bond Excess Returns and Forward Rates: An Asset-Allocation Perspective Daniel L. Thornton
(Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis)
Giorgio Valente
(Univ. of Essex)		 Hyoung-Jin Park
(Seoul Women’s Univ.)
Fund Size and Performance in a Market Crowded with Many Small Funds Hyuk Choe
(Seoul National Univ.)
Juil Ban
(Seoul National Univ.)		 Seoung Ju Moon
(Gyeongsang National Univ.)


Session 11 : Asset Pricing (15:45~17:45)
Chair : Bong-Soo Lee (Florida State Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Inference for Stochastic Bubble Trend in Stock Price under Error Correction Model Yun-Yeong Kim
(Dankook Univ.)		 Jinyong Kim
(KAIST)
Bias in Stock Price Forecast And the Cross-Section of Stock Returns Dong Wook Lee
(Korea Univ.)		 K. J. Hong
(Univ. of Cambridge)
Productivity Growth and Stock Return: Firm- and Aggregate-Level Analyses Hyunbae Chun
(Sogang Univ.)
Jung-Wook Kim
(Seoul National Univ.)
Randall Morck
(Univ. of Alberta)		 Martin J. Dierker
(KAIST)


Session 12 : Credit Risk (15:45~17:45)
Chair : In Joon Kim (Yonsei Univ.)
Title Author Discussant
Information Content of Unsolicted Credit Ratings and Incentives of Rating Agencies: A Theory Soku Byoun
(Baylor Univ.)		 Kyeong-Hoon Kang
(Dongguk Univ.)
A Systematic Diagnosis of Systemic Risk Baeho Kim
(Korea Univ.)
Myeong Hyeon Kim
(Korea Univ.)		 Sun Eae Chun
(Chung-Ang Univ.)
The Information Content of Individual Put Option-Implied Volatility for Credit Default Swap Spread in Korea Market Tong Suk Kim (KAIST)
Yuen Jung Park (KAIST)		 Baeho Kim
(Korea Univ.)