The First Annual Conference on Corporate Governance and Fraud Prevention
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George Mason University’s School of Management invites you to attend its First Annual Conference on Corporate Governance and fraud Prevention to be held on May 10, 2008 at the Mason campus. The conference is aimed at bringing together scholars working on current issues in the broad area of Corporate Governance, Fraud and Ethics. We have put together a program that should be of interest to scholars in accounting, finance, economics, and management who have an interest in corporate governance issues. The conference has a registration fee of $145. You can register online or by mail. The conference schedule is given below:
Registration and Breakfast: 8:00 – 9:00
Session I: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
1. Accounting Scandals in IPO Firms: Do Underwriters and VCs Help? - Anup Agrawal and Tommy Cooper. Presenter: Anup Agrawal (University of Alabama).
2. Opportunism and the Related Consequences in the IPO Setting. - Mary Billings and Melissa Lewis. Presenter: Melissa lewis (University of Utah).
3. Earnings History and CEO Turnover. – Shane Dikolli, William Mayhew and Dhananjay Nanda. Presenter: Dhananjay Nanda (Duke University).
Session II: 10:45-12:15 a.m.
1. Board of Directors’ Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals – Yonca Ertimur, Fabrizio Ferri and Stephen Stubben. Presenter: Fabrizio Ferri (Harvard University).
2. Co-opted Boards: Costs, Benefits, Causes and Consequences. - Jeffrey Coles, Naveen Daniel and Lalitha Naveen. Presenter: Lalitha Naveen (Temple University).
3. An Empirical Examination of Mutual Fund Boards. - Felix Meschke. Presenter: Felix Meschke (University of Minnesota).
Lunch : 12:30 – 1:30
Session III: 1:45p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
1. Founder, Heirs and Corporate Transparency. - Ron Anderson, Augustine Duru and David Reeb. Presenter: Ron Anderson (American University).
2. The Interdependence between Institutional Investor Stock Ownership and Information Dissemination by Capital Market Data Aggregators. – Julia D’Souza, K. Ramesh and Min Shen. Presenter: K. Ramesh (Michigan State University).
3. Concentrating on Governance. – Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Mathew Rhodes-Kropf. Presenter: Dalida Kadyrzhanova (University of Maryland).
Session IV: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
1. An Investigation of the Earnings Quality Consequences of Hiring an Affiliated Auditor with a Focus on Firm Characteristics. - William Baber, Jagan Krishnan and Yinqi Zhang. Presenter: Yinqi Zhang (American University).
2. Office Size of Big 4 Auditors and Client GAAP Failures. - Jere Francis and Michael Yu. Presenter: Jere Francis (University of Missouri-Columbia).
3. Using non-Financial Measures to Detect Fraud.- Joe Brazel ,Keith Jones and Mark Zimbelman. Presenter: Keith Jones (George Mason University).
Reception: 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.