2010 Conference

2010 CAPANA Conference
June 30-July 2, 2010
Chengdu, China

The Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of
North America's Third Annual Research Conference

Conference Schedule

Date Activity Venue
June 30
Registration
Yufu Hot Springs Hotel
&Evening Reception
( 鱼凫国都温泉大酒店 )
July 1
Conference

Conference Hall, Teng-Xiang Building, SWUFE

西南财大 ( 柳林校区 ) 腾镶楼报告厅
   
 
8:15-8:45am Registration outside the conference venue
8:45-9:00am Welcoming speech by President of SWUFE & Dean of School of Accountancy
9:00am-10:15am “Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Economic Consequences of the Initiation
  and the Outcome of Internal Investigations of Option Backdating”
  (Jingyu Li, Fayez A. Elayan,* Brock University; Thomas O. Meyer,
  Southeastern Louisiana University)
  Discussant: Pervin Shroff (University of Minnesota)
10:15-10:45am Coffee break
10:45-12:00pm “The Effect of Accounting versus Economic Determinants on the use of
  Broad-based Option Plans” (Hemang Desai, Zining Li,* Southern Methodist
  University; Suning Zhang, George Mason University)
  Discussant: Mark Bradshaw (Boston College)
12:00-1:30pm Buffet lunch at school
1:30-2:45pm “Short Sale Constraints, Heterogeneous Interpretations, and Asymmetric
  Price Reactions to Earnings Announcements” (Eric Chang, Hong Kong
  University; Jianguo Xu, McGill University; Liu Zheng,* Hong Kong University)
  Discussant: Prem Jain (Georgetown University)
2:45-3:15pm Coffee break
3:15-4:30pm “Intra-Industry Effects of Corporate Scandal Announcements in China”
  (Xin Yu, Nanjing University; Peng Zhang, China Financial Futures Exchange;
  Ying Zheng,* Zhongshan University)
  Discussant: Donghui Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
4:40-5:20pm SWUFE campus tour
6:30-8:30pm Dinner at Yufu Hot Springs Hotel
July 2
Conference

Conference Hall, Teng-Xiang Building, SWUFE

西南财大 ( 柳林校区 ) 腾镶楼报告厅

   
   
8:00am-8:30am Registration outside the conference venue
8:30-9:45am “The Effects of Auditors’ Pre-Client and Client-Specific Experience on
  Earnings Quality and Perceptions of Earnings Quality: Evidence from Private
  and Public Companies in Taiwan” (Wuchun Chi, National Chengchi
  University; Linda A. Myers, University of Arkansas; Thomas C. Omer, Texas
  A&M University; Hong Xie,* University of Kentucky)
  Discussant: Ole-Kristian Hope (University of Toronto)
9:45-10:15am Coffee break
10:15-11:30am “CEO compensation and fair value accounting: Evidence from purchase price
  allocation” (Ron Shalev, Washington University; Ivy Zhang, University of
  Minnesota; Yong Zhang,* Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  Discussant: Daniel Cohen (New York University)
11:30am-1:00pm Buffet lunch at school
1:00-2:15pm “The Role of Managerial Overconfidence in the Design of Debt Covenants”
  (Jayanthi Sunder, Shyam V. Sunder, Liang Tan,* Northwestern University)
  Discussant: Sudipta Basu (Temple University)
2:15-2:45pm Coffee break
2:45-4:00pm “Commitment to Disclosure and Firm Liquidity- Evidence from Smaller
  Reporting Companies” (Lin Cheng, Ohio State University; Scott Liao,*
  University of Toronto; Haiwen Zhang, Ohio State University)
  Discussant: Jonathan Rogers (University of Chicago)
4:00-4:15pm Voting/announcement of Best Paper Award
4:30-6:00pm Transportation to Crowne Plaza Chengdu in city center
7:00-9:00pm Dinner with Sichuan Opera ( 川剧 ) performance
Conference officially ends

*Expected presenting author

July 3 Tour

(voluntary participation and provided by SWUFE for free )

 
   
8:15am Pick-up at Crowne Plaza Chengdu Hotel
8:30-11:30am Giant Panda Research Base ( 大熊猫研究基地 )
11:30am-1:30pm Transportation to and lunch in the City of the Dujiang-yan
  ( 都江堰市 , possibly a farmer's family restaurant 农家乐 )
1:30-5:30pm

Tour of Dujiangyan Irrigation System (都江堰)

  (Drive-through tour of earthquake site if time permits)
6:30pm Drop-off at Crowne Plaza Chengdu
7:00pm 四川小吃 dinner

 

To be fair to all the authors and discussants, we request that all participants attend the entire

two-day program, July 1-2. Thank you for your cooperation, and thank you for your support to

CAPANA.