Activity 2023

2023 KAFA Brown Bag Seminar Series

We encourage all KAFA members to submit working papers and attend the seminars.

  • Topic: Any finance areas
  • When: To be notified later
  • Where: Virtual meetings
  • In each seminar, two papers will be presented and discussed
  • Submit papers to Professor Unyong (Howard) Pyo (upyo@brocku.ca)

 

Agenda for the 19th Brown Bag Seminar Series on Friday, September 1st, from 8:00-10:00 pm (EST or September 2nd, from 9:00-11:00 am in Seoul, Korea):

All participants including presenters will join the seminar through zoom link (https://psu.zoom.us/j/98525560297).

  • Hyuksoon Lim, University of North Dakota, “Labor Market Frictions for Female Workers and Corporate Innovation” (link)

Discussant: Chanik Jo, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Agenda for the 18th Brown Bag Seminar Series on Friday, May 5th, from 8:00-10:00 pm (EST or May 6th, from 9:00-11:00 am in Seoul, Korea):

All participants including presenters will join the seminar through zoom link (https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/95435640956?pwd=RlN1QlFsdTVnMWNLOFZycjlVUDFCUT09).

  • Albert Lee, Hanyang University, “Buy-Sell Imbalance Around Round Numbers and High-Frequency Trading” (link)

Discussant: Hugh Hoikwang Kim, University of South Carolina

  • Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Does Foreign Institutional Capital Promote Green Growth for Emerging Market Firms” (link)

Discussant: Hoje Jo, Santa Clara University

 

Agenda for the 17th Brown Bag Seminar Series on Friday, April 7th, from 8:00-10:00 pm (EST or April 8th, from 9:00-11:00 am in Seoul, Korea):

All participants including presenters will join the seminar through zoom link (https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/95626343761?pwd=OHFjcTJDSVh5YnNGQ3V5MXhhdUo3Zz09).

  • Irene Yi, University of Toronto, “Voting Rationales” (link)

Discussant: Jongsub Lee, Seoul National University

  • Jung Hoon Lee, Vanderbilt University, “Outsourced Fund and Risk-taking: A Tale of Two Contracts”  (link)

Discussant: Jeong Ho (John) Kim, Emory University

 

Agenda for the 16th Brown Bag Seminar Series on 3/3, 8:00-10:00pm EST or 3/4, from 10:00am-12:00 pm in Seoul, Korea:

All participants including presenters will join the seminar through zoom link (https://psu.zoom.us/j/98525560297).

  • Kiyoung Chang, University of South Florida, “Ethical Integrity, Societal Values, and CSR: The Effect of State Unemployment Insurance on Firm Internal Control Weakness” (link)

Discussant: Sung Chul Bae, Bowling Green State University

 

Agenda for the 15th Brown Bag Seminar Series on 2/3, 8:00-10:00pm EST or 2/4, from 10:00am-12:00 pm in Seoul, Korea:

All participants including presenters will join the seminar through zoom link (https://psu.zoom.us/j/98525560297).

  • Joonki Noh, Case Western University, “News Releases and Mispricing” (link)

Discussant: Sahn-Wook Huh, University (SUNY) at Buffalo

 

Agenda for the 14th Brown Bag Seminar Series on 1/6, 8:00-9:40pm EST:

All participants including presenters will join the seminar through zoom link (https://psu.zoom.us/j/98525560297).

  • Woochan Kim, Korea University, “Outside Director Tenure Limit: The 2020 Korean Experiment” (link)

Discussant: Daewoung Choi, Louisiana State University at Shreveport

Submit Your Good News

Due to the limited information, not all the activities are listed. Please send your good news (e.g., new publications, promotion, new job, etc.) to KAFA (kimw@augsburg.edu).