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PUBLIC LECTURE: Public Lecture: Identifying and profiting from the vacation schedules of major company CEOs

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Public Lecture: Identifying and profiting from the vacation schedules of major company CEOs : Professor David L. Yermack Other events...
What happens when chief executives go on vacation? In this lecture, New York University Stern School of Business Professor David Yermack will show how to identify vacations of CEOs by tracking movements of their corporate jets to leisure destinations where they own property. CEOs tend to announce favourable news for investors just before leaving and just after returning from vacation. While they are away, companies disclose little information, stock prices behave quietly with lower volatility than usual, and companies are more likely to miss regulatory deadlines for disclosing news. All of these patterns create trading opportunities for investors. The data show that even in very large organisations, the absence or presence of a single individual can affect daily operations.

About the Speaker:

Professor David L. Yermack is the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at New York University Stern School of Business, a position he has held since 2009. He specialises in executive compensation, executive stock options, boards of directors, corporate finance, corporate governance, sports economics and law and finance. His works are widely published in top journals in the field, including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations.

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Speaker(s) Professor David L. Yermack
Location Wesfarmers Lecture Theatre, UWA Business School
Contact Xahlia Jeffcote <[email protected]> : 6488 8171
URL http://www.business.uwa.edu.au/school/specialeventregistration
Start Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:00
End Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:00
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Submitted by Xahlia Jeffcote <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:09
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