Research
Brown Bag Seminar
KAFA's virtual seminar series — research in progress, with discussants, year-round.
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)
19th Brown Bag Seminar (September 1, 2023)
Friday, September 1st, 8:00–10:00 pm EST (September 2nd, 9:00–11:00 am in Seoul, Korea).
- Hyuksoon Lim, University of North Dakota — "Labor Market Frictions for Female Workers and Corporate Innovation" (paper). Discussant: Chanik Jo, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
18th Brown Bag Seminar (May 5, 2023)
Friday, May 5th, 8:00–10:00 pm EST (May 6th, 9:00–11:00 am in Seoul, Korea).
- Albert Lee, Hanyang University — "Buy-Sell Imbalance Around Round Numbers and High-Frequency Trading" (paper). 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" (paper). Discussant: Hoje Jo, Santa Clara University.
17th Brown Bag Seminar (April 7, 2023)
Friday, April 7th, 8:00–10:00 pm EST (April 8th, 9:00–11:00 am in Seoul, Korea).
- Irene Yi, University of Toronto — "Voting Rationales" (paper). Discussant: Jongsub Lee, Seoul National University.
- Jung Hoon Lee, Vanderbilt University — "Outsourced Fund and Risk-taking: A Tale of Two Contracts" (paper). Discussant: Jeong Ho (John) Kim, Emory University.
16th Brown Bag Seminar (March 3, 2023)
March 3rd, 8:00–10:00 pm EST (March 4th, 10:00 am–12:00 pm in Seoul, Korea).
- Kiyoung Chang, University of South Florida — "Ethical Integrity, Societal Values, and CSR: The Effect of State Unemployment Insurance on Firm Internal Control Weakness" (paper). Discussant: Sung Chul Bae, Bowling Green State University.
15th Brown Bag Seminar (February 3, 2023)
February 3rd, 8:00–10:00 pm EST (February 4th, 10:00 am–12:00 pm in Seoul, Korea).
- Joonki Noh, Case Western University — "News Releases and Mispricing" (paper). Discussant: Sahn-Wook Huh, University (SUNY) at Buffalo.
14th Brown Bag Seminar (January 6, 2023)
January 6th, 8:00–9:40 pm EST.
- Woochan Kim, Korea University — "Outside Director Tenure Limit: The 2020 Korean Experiment". Discussant: Daewoung Choi, Louisiana State University at Shreveport.
Session papers (hosted on Dropbox)
📄 Labor Market Frictions for Female Workers and Corporate Innovation — Hyuksoon Lim (19th)📄 Buy-Sell Imbalance Around Round Numbers and High-Frequency Trading — Albert Lee (18th)📄 Does Foreign Institutional Capital Promote Green Growth for Emerging Market Firms — Jaewon Choi (18th)📄 Voting Rationales — Irene Yi (17th)📄 Outsourced Fund and Risk-taking: A Tale of Two Contracts — Jung Hoon Lee (17th)📄 Ethical Integrity, Societal Values, and CSR — Kiyoung Chang (16th)📄 News Releases and Mispricing — Joonki Noh (15th)