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September 2007—On Friday, September 14, The Financial Services Institute sponsored their annual symposium. This year’s topic was Imports or Exports?, and  opened with the Featured Paper being presented to the full body of the Symposium.  The paper, entitled The Attractiveness of Central Eastern European Countries for Venture Capital and Private Equity Investors was written by Alexander P. Groh of Montpellier Business School in France, and Karsten Lieser and Heinrich von Liechtenstein of the University of Navarra in Spain.

Sessions focused on global finance,the impacts of conservative bias, expert opinion and ethics; the effects of trading strategies and M&A securitization and reinsurance.  Numerous papers were discussed at the symposium and three were given Best Papers Awards, including: Sarbanes-Oxley and the Independence of Expert Opinions in Business Combinations by Nina T. Dorata of St. John’s University; Currency Bid-Ask Spread Dynamics and the Asian Crisis: Evidence Across Currency Regimes by Anna D. Martin of St. John’s and Gregory Koutmos of Fairfield University; and Foreign Investors’ Trading Disadvantage in US Stock Markets: An Analysis by Country of Origin, by Jerry T. Parwada, T. Walter, and D. Winchester of New South Wales University, Australia. Seventeen senior researchers from US and international Universities served as judges for the Best Paper and Best Discussant awards.

For further information about the Financial Services Institute, and future symposiums, please contact Academic Director Dr. Igor Tomic at tomici@stjohns.edu or Founding Director Don Pitti at dpitti@attglobal.net.

The Peter J. Tobin College of Business has provided the highest quality business education for over eighty years.  Many alumni have risen to senior executive positions in the financial services community in New York and around the world.  Degrees offered include the Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration and Master of Science.  The College encompasses the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science, which is housed at the University’s Manhattan location in the heart of the New York financial district.  Recent recognitions for the Tobin College include a listing by The Princeton Review as one of “The Best 290 Business Schools" in America.  For further information, please contact Jennifer Maizel at (718) 990-6218 or email vacchioj@stjohns.edu.

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