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2011 CAPANA Conference
July 13-15, 2011
Xiamen, China

The Forth Annual Research Conference of

Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of North America(CAPANA)

Conference Schedule

Date	Activity	Venue
July 13	Registration& Reception (6:00pm)	Wyndham Xiamen Hotel (温德姆酒店) http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/XMNHT/main.wnt 12 Lu Jiang Dao, Xiamen, Fujian 361001, China Tel: 86-592-6366666 厦门市思明区鹭江道12号. 0592-5712944, 5417389
July 14	Conference	Xiamen University (厦门大学) http://www.xmu.edu.cn/
8:00am-8:30am	Bus to Xiamen University and Registration outside the conference venue
8:30am-8:45am	Welcome speech by the Dean of the School of Management
8:45am-9:55am	Paper 1: Inside Debt and the Design of Corporate Debt Contracts Divya Anantharaman (Rutgers University), Vivian Fang (Rutgers University), and Guojin Gong (Pennsylvania State University)
	Discussant: Gerald Lobo (University of Houston)
9:55am-10:20am	Break
10:20am-11:30pm	Paper 2: The Use of Accounting Accruals in Debt Contracts: Evidence from the Measurement of Financial Covenants Ningzhong Li (London Business School)
	Discussant: Chul Park (University of Hong Kong)
11:30am-1:00pm	Lunch (逸夫楼, YiFu Building. On Campus)
1:00am-2:10pm	Paper 3: Employee Ownership and Firm Disclosure Francesco Bova, Yiwei Dou, and Ole-Kristian Hope (University of Toronto)
	Discussant: Clive Lennox (Nanyang Technological University)
2:10pm-2:35pm	Break
2:35pm-3:45pm	Paper 4: Mutual Funds and Stocks with Strong Fundamentals Sheri Tice and Ling Zhou (Tulane University)
	Discussant: Xiao-Jun Zhang (University of California, Berkeley)
3:45pm-4:10pm	Break
4:10pm-5:20pm	Paper 5: Accounting Conservatism and Bankruptcy Risk Gary Biddle, Mary Ma, and Frank Song (Hong Kong University)
	Discussant: Edmond Keung (National University of Singapore)
7:00pm-9:00pm	Dinner (逸夫楼, YiFu Building. On Campus)
July 15	Conference	Xiamen University (厦门大学) http://www.xmu.edu.cn/
8:30am-9:40am	Paper 6: Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Level the Informational Playing Field Between Foreign and Domestic Analyst? Donal Byard (Baruch College – CUNY), Ying Li (George Washington University) and Yong Yu (University of Texas at Austin)
	Discussant: Linda Krull (University of Oregon)
9:40am-9:55am	Break
9:55-11:05am	Paper 7: Does Granting Minority Shareholders Direct Control Over Corporate Decisions Help Reduce Value Decreasing Corporate Decisions in Firms with Concentrated Share Ownership? A Natural Experiment from China Zhihong Chen (City University of Hong Kong), Bin Ke (Nanyang Technological University) and Zhifeng Yang (City University of Hong Kong)
	Discussant: Guohua Jiang (Peking University)
11:05-11:20am	Break
11:20am-12:30pm	Paper 8: Transparency in Politically Connected Firms: Evidence from Private Sector Firms in China Bin Srinidhi (City University of Hong Kong), Hao Zhang (City University of Hong Kong) and Tianyu Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
	Discussant: Srinivasan Sankaraguruswamy (National University of Singapore)
	Collect votes for the Best Paper Award
12:30am-2:00pm	Lunch (逸夫楼, YiFu Building. On Campus)
2:00pm-7:00pm	Free Time
7:00pm-9:00pm	Dinner (佳丽海鲜, JiaLi Sea Food Restaurant. Off Campus) / Announcement of the Best Paper Award
	Conference officially ends
* To be fair and polite to all the presenters and discussants, we request that all participants attend the entire two-day program, July 14-15. Thank you for your cooperation and support of CAPANA. * In each session, the presenter has 35 minutes, the discussant has 20 minutes, and the audience has 15 minutes.