EDHEC-Risk Institute PhD in Finance - Research Workshop Series
Forthcoming research workshops, March-June 2010
- March 18, 2010, Professor Harrison Hong, Princeton University, "Gradual Information Diffusion in Asset Markets"
- March 25, 2010, Professor Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, EDHEC Business School, "Giants at the Gate: On the Cross-section of Private Equity Investment Returns"
- May 20, 2010, Profesor Pascal Maenhout, INSEAD, TBA
- June 24, 2010, Professor Stéphane Gregoir, EDHEC Economics Research Centre, "Testing in Vector Autoregressions with Possibly Seasonally and Non-seasonally (Co-)integrated Processes: An Application to Monetary Policy"
Past research workshops
- September 18, 2008, Professor Federico Bandi, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, "Market Volatility, Market Frictions, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
- October 16, 2008, Professor Robert Kosowski, Imperial College Business School, "When There Is No Place to Hide: Correlation Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns"
- November 13, 2008, Professor Jacob Sagi, Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, "Do Fund Managers Make Informed Asset Allocation Decisions?"
- December 4, 2008, Professor Abraham Lioui, EDHEC Business School, "Do the Fama French Factors Really Proxy for Time Varying Opportunity Set?"
- January 28, 2009, Professor Lionel Martellini, Scientific Director of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, "How Costly is Regulatory Short-Termism for Defined-Benefit Pension Funds?"
- February 12, 2009, Professor Ekkehart Boehmer, Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, "Short Selling and the Informational Efficiency of Prices"
- March 26, 2009, Professor Jakša Cvitanic, Caltech, "Optimal Compensation of Managers and Executives"
- April 30, 2009, Professor João Cocco, London Business School, "Longevity Risk and Retirement Savings"
- May 28, 2009, Professor Raman Uppal, London Business School, "Keynes Meets Markowitz: The Trade-off between Familiarity and Diversification"
- June 15, 2009, Doctor Tobias Adrian, Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "CoVaR"
- June 18, 2009, Professor Marcel Rindisbacher, Boston University School of Management, "Optimal Portfolio Allocations with Hedge Funds"
- June 25, 2009, Professor Pierre Mella-Barral, EDHEC Business School, "Firm Spawning Dynamics"
- September 3, 2009, Professor Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "Stock Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives"
- October 15, 2009, Professor Sudipto Bhattacharya, London School of Economics, "Control Rights and Corporate Venturing"
- October 16, 2009, Professor Daniel Dorn, Drexel University LeBow College of Business, "Rational Disposition Effects: Theory and Evidence"
- November 12, 2009, Professor Giuseppe Bertola, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino, "Reforms, Finance, and Current Accounts"
- November 13, 2009, Professor Alexandre Jeanneret, University of Lausanne - HEC School, Institute of Banking and Finance, "Sovereign Default Risk and the U.S. Equity Market"
- November 19, 2009, Professor Olivier Scaillet, HEC Université de Genève, "Detecting spurious jumps in high frequency data"
- January 11, 2010, Professor Hui Guo, College of Business, University of Cincinnati, "Uncovering the Relation between Aggregate Stock Illiquidity and Expected Excess Market Returns"
- January 14, 2010, Professor Andrea Buraschi, Imperial College London, "When Uncertainty Blows in the Orchard: Comovement and Equilibrium Volatility Risk Premia"
- January 20, 2010, Professor Tim Bollerslev, Duke University, "Tails, Fears and Risk Premia"
- January 20, 2010, Professor Rama Cont, Columbia University, "Systemic Risk and Default Contagion in Banking Networks"
- January 28, 2010, Professor Laurent Calvet, HEC Paris, "Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios"
- February 25, 2010, Professor Massimo Guidolin, Manchester Business School, "Can VAR Models Capture Regime Shifts in Asset Returns? A Long-Horizon Strategic Asset Allocation Perspective".
These sessions have been recorded and are available in multimedia streaming. Affiliate faculty members and prospective students should contact Maud Gauchon to obtain a link to access these recordings or to participate in future sessions.
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