Eighth Alternative Perspectives on Finance Conference: Conference on Open Finance

Zakopane, Poland, August 6-8, 2006

(Draft Schedule)

 

Sunday August 6

 

19:00                           Dinner reception at regional restaurant (with music)

 

Monday August 7

 

8:00-9:00                     Breakfast at hotel

 

9:15-11:00                   Session 1         Finance and Ethics

 

                                    Paper 1            "'Payday Loans': An Ethical and Socially Responsible Industry?"

                                    Author:            Mark S. Schwartz and Chris Robinson

                                    Discussant:      Michael P. Coyne

 

                                    Paper 2            "Breeding and Grazing a Herd of Stoics: On the Promotion of the Moral of Large-Scale Financial LiquidityÓ

                                    Author:            Dick Forslund

                                    Discussant:      Janice M. Traflet

 

11:00-11:15                 Morning refreshment break

 

11:15-13:00                 Session 2         Finance and Philosophy

 

                                    Paper 1            "Prediction"

                                    Author:            Alex Arthur

                                    Discussant:      Ulrika Sjšdin

 

                                    Paper 2            "The Financial 'Traffic Light ModelĠ: A Case for Nietzschean Evaluation and Non-Truths"

                                    Author:            Ulrika Sjšdin

                                    Discussant:      Alex Arthur

 

                                    Paper 3            "Methods Available to Overcome the Balassa-Samuleson Effect in a Catching-Up Economy"

                                    Author:            Katarzyna Zukrowska

Discussant:      Katarzyna Zukrowska

 

 

13:30-14:30                 Lunch at hotel

 

14:30-16:15                Session 3         Finance and Psychology

 

                                    Paper 1            "When does Information about Probabilities Count in Choices about Risk?"

                                    Author:            Tomasz Zaleskiewicz and Tadeusz Tyszka

 

                                    Paper 2            "Determinants of Contrarian vs. Momentum Strategy in Predicting Uncertain Events"

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                                    Paper 3            "Disposition Effects and IPOs"

                                    Author:

 

16:15-16:30                 Afternoon refreshment break

 

16:30-18:15                 Session 4         Finance and Culture

 

                                    Paper 1            "Spectacles or Spectacles: Accounting as Instrument/Accounting as Image"

                                    Author:            Elton G. McGoun and Michael P. Coyne

                                    Discussant:      Dick Forslund

 

                                    Paper 2            "To Travel is to Learn: The Knowledge Bus"

                                    Author:            Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin

                                    Discussant:      Elton G. McGoun

 

                                    Paper 3            "Crash:Porsches and Portfolios at the End of the Road"

                                    Author:            Elton G. McGoun, Janice M. Traflet, and Ulrika Sjšdin

                                    Discussant:      Chris Robinson

           

19:30                           Lamb grill

 


Tuesday Morning

 

8:00-9:00                     Breakfast at hotel

 

9:15-11:00                   Session 5         Finance and Practice

 

                                    Paper 1            "Alternate Capital Structure Explanations"

                                    Author:            Majtaz Crnigoj and Dusan Mramor

                                    Discussant:      Trevor W. Chamberlain

 

                                    Paper 2            "Comparative Performance of Liquidity- and Profitability-Based Models of Business Investment"

                                    Author:            Trevor W. Chamberlain

                                    Discussant:      Matjaz Crnigoj and Dusan Mramor

 

11:00-11:15                 Morning refreshment break

 

11:15-13:00                 Session 6         Finance and Market Behavior

 

                                    Paper 1            "Toward a Revolution in Macroeconomics"

                                    Author:            Hern‡n CortŽs Douglas

                                    Discussant:      Chris Robinson

 

                                    Paper 2            "Market Affect: Towards a Phenomenological Analysis"

                                    Author:            Wesley Phoa

                                    Discussant:      Ann-Christine Frandsen

 

13:30-14:30                 Lunch at hotel

 

15:30                           Excursion to the Koscieliska Valley

 

19:30                           Closing dinner at regional restaurant