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 Sjdin
Paper
2 "The
Financial 'Traffic Light ModelĠ: A Case for Nietzschean Evaluation and
Non-Truths"
Author: Ulrika
Sjdin
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"
Author:
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 Sjdin
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: Hernn
Corts 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