Telfer School Professors Participated in the 26th Annual Northern Finance Association Conference in Ottawa

Professors Samir Saadi, William Rentz and Shantanu Dutta of the Telfer School of Management participated in the 26^th annual Northern Finance Association Conference [This link is no longer available], held September 12-14 in Ottawa. Professor Rentz chaired the conference session on equity valuation. Profesor Dutta and colleagues, among them professor Saadi, presented a paper examining the “governance role” of negative media coverage in the M&A decision making process. Saadi was also part of a team that presented research in the area of corporate payout policy.