WITH APOLOGIES FRO CROSS-POSTING
Dear INDECON member
We are pleased to announce a fine selection of papers in finance,
accounting and economics, for our next seminar on Friday 4 April 2008. The
programme and registration form are attached, and the speakers and papers
are listed below.
Feedback from our last event was very positive, with many commenting on
the usefulness of the networking opportunity. So we hope to see you there!
Best wishes for the new year!
Gavin Reid
Chairman, SAFE
Julia Smith
Treasurer SAFE
Basil Al-Najjar (Bristol Business School) – ‘The inter-relationship
between capital structure and dividend policy: empirical evidence from
Jordanian data’
Neng Jiang (Judge Business School, Cambridge) (with Paul Kattuman, Judge
Business School) – ‘Mean reverting profitability and predictability of
earnings of Chinese listed companies’
Richard John Fairchild (University of Bath) – ‘The entrepreneur’s choice
of venture capitalist: the effects of fairness, trust, value-adding
ability and the legal system’
Eleimon Gonis (Bristol Business School) (with Peter Taylor, Bristol
Business School) – ‘The effects of corporate governance on credit ratings:
evidence from the UK’
Mikel Larreina (La Comercial- Universidad de Deusto, Spain) – ‘Financial
centres in peripheral regions: the effect of the financial services
industry on regional economy. The case of the Scottish Financial cluster’
Kim Kaivanto (Lancaster University Management School) (with Paul Stoneman,
Warwick Business School) – ‘Risk shifting, technology policy and sales
contingent claims’
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