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G10-1 4411 Financial Markets

Thursday, 4 April 2013: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Chair:
John Sell, College of Wooster—USA
A new u.s. corporate bond index for the interwar period
Brian C. Gendreau, University of Florida—USA
Accruals and real earnings management around debt covenant violations
Sudipto Sarkar, McMaster University—Canada; Umar Butt, Zayed University—United Arab Emirates; Trevor W. Chamberlain, McMaster University—Canada
Does access to stock market alleviate credit restrictions for firms in developing world?
Filipe Lage de Sousa, BNDES and UFF—Brazil; Joao Paulo Faleiros, BNDES—Brazil; Antonio Marcos Ambrozio, BNDES and PUC-RJ—Brazil; Andre Sant'Anna, BNDES—Brazil
Hedge funds: Market timing and the dynamics of systematic risk
Johan Knif, Hanken School of Economics—Finland; Gregory Koutmos, Fairfield University—USA; Dimitrios Koutmos, Leeds University—United Kingdom
Discussants:
Rainer Jankowitsch, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)—Austria ; Daniel C. Hardy, International Monetary Fund—USA ; Brian C. Gendreau, University of Florida—USA and John Sell, College of Wooster—USA