Brown Bag Seminar – Winter Term 2011/2012
Frankfurt School’s Brown Bag Seminar offers researchers an opportunity to present their research and receive comments from participants. Researchers are invited to submit work in progress or complete papers in all fields of business administration and economics. The seminar takes place on the Wednesdays noted below from 12.15 pm to 1.15 pm. The rooms the sessions take place in are displayed in the table below.
There are only three rules for this seminar:
1. Presentations and discussions are either in English or in German.
2. The seminar starts at 12.15 pm sharp and ends at 1.15 pm.
3. Questions from the audience are allowed at all times.
If you have any questions or want to fix a date, please do not hesitate to contact Markus Wiemann at m.wiemann(a)frankfurt-school.de. In case you want to present your work please submit the title, abstract and – if available – the full paper. Please note that registration implies the obligation to deliver a presentation! Your presentation slides should be submitted one week prior to the presentation date. We ask presenters to commit to participate in the other sessions, too.
| Date | Referent | Organisation | Paper Titel | Info | Room |
| 21.09.11 | Prof. Susanne Prantl | Universität Köln | Patent Protection and the Effects of Product Market Reforms on R&D Investments |
| Room NB11 |
| 05.10.11 | Markus Fischer | Goethe Universität | Bankruptcy and Debt Source | Room NB23 | |
| 19.10.11 | Prof. Tobias Kretschmer | LMU | Backward Compatibility to Sustain Market Dominance - Evidence from the US Handheld Video Game Industry | Room NB23 | |
| 26.10.11 | Dr. Petra Nieken | Universität Bonn | Information Policy in Tournaments with Sabotage | Room 16 | |
| 08.11.11 | Rüdiger Fahlenbrach | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis | Paper | Room NB05 |
| 09.11.11 | Zacharias Sautner | Amsterdam Business School | Opening the Black Box: Internal Capital Markets and Managerial Power | Paper | Room NB23 |
| 09.11.11 | Ralph de Haas | EBRD | Group Lending or Individual Lending? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Mongolia | Paper | Room NB23 |
| 16.11.11 | Oliver Spalt | Tilburg University | Acquisitions as Lotteries: Do Managerial Gambling Attitudes Influence Takeover Decisions? | Paper | Room NB23 |
| 22.11.11 | Günter Strobl | University of North Carolina | The Economics of Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings | Paper | Room NB11 |
| 23.11.11 | Daniel Dorn | Drexel University | Investors with too many options? | Paper | Room NB11 |
| 23.11.11 | Prof. Jürgen Ernstberger | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | The real business effects of quarterly reporting (will be held in German) | Room NB23 | |
| 07.12.11 | Sergey Sosnovskiy | FS | Growth Optimal Portfolio Insurance | Room NB01 | |
| 21.12.11 | Yachang Zeng | Tilburg University | What drives CEO perquisites? |
| Room NB23 |
| 18.01.12 | Helke Waelde | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | To switch or not to switch – Can individual lending do better in microfinance than group lending? | Paper 1 Paper 2 | Room NB23 |
| 08.02.12 | Michael Koetter | Universität Groningen | Bank bailouts, interventions, and moral hazard | Paper | Room NB22 |