Courses
Courses and workshops organized within NFN are open to finance PhD students and faculty from all Nordic universities or business schools irrespective of whether their home institution is a member of NFN.
Past courses
Forthcoming courses
Empirical Corporate Finance | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Renée Adams (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) |
Dates | May 10-11 & May 27-28, 2022 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
Information | This course offers a doctoral level introduction to Empirical Corporate Finance and aims to prepare doctoral students to do research on their own in this field. More information will be updated on the course website. |
Applications | Application deadline is April 25, 2022. Application instructions can be found on the course website. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Finland. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please, send the application well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Digital Currencies: Policy Economics | |
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Organizer | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics |
Instructor | Darrell Duffie (Stanford University Graduate School of Business) |
Dates | June 4-8, 2022 |
Place | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden |
Information | More information can be found on the course website. The course is worth 3.5 ECTS credits. |
Applications | Please register by sending an email to course secretary Jenny Wahlberg Andersson at jenny.wahlberg.andersson (@) hhs.se by May 31, 2022. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Sweden. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please, send the application well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Four Centuries of Finance | |
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Organizer | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics |
Instructor | Peter Koudijs, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam |
Dates | June 9-14, 2022 |
Place | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden |
Information | More information will be updated on the course website. |
Applications | Please register by sending an email to course secretary Jenny Wahlberg Andersson at jenny.wahlberg.andersson (@) hhs.se by May 31, 2022. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Sweden. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please, send the application well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Machine Learning for Finance | |
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Organizer | Nord University |
Instructor | Doron E. Avramov (IDC Herzliya) |
Dates | June 20-24, 2022 |
Place | Nord University, Bodø, Norway |
Information |
The course gives the
student a fundamental understanding of both elementary and
advanced statistical and machine learning methods used in finance,
with a focus on applications and research methods. The course
gives the students a thorough introduction to topics such as ridge
regression, the Lasso, Adaptive Lasso, Bridge regression,
Regression Trees, Random Forest, and Neural Networks. The course
gives a thorough understanding of methods such as the ordinary
least squares, its shortcomings, and how, for example, machine
learning can improve the estimates and their errors. Machine
learning typically prescribes a vast collection of
high-dimensional models attempting to predict quantities of
interest while imposing regularization methods.
More information on the course website. |
Applications | A link to the application form can be found on the course website. The deadline for applications is May 2, 2022. |
Travel Grant |
NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in
finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of
Norway. To apply for the Travel Grant, please
use
this form and send
it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Please, send the application
well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time
to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the
cheapest tickets available. |
Behavioral Finance | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Markku Kaustia (Aalto University) |
Dates | June 27 - July 1, 2022 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
Information |
Behavioral Finance is an approach to the analysis of asset prices, corporate finance, and financial decision-making in general, that relaxes some key assumptions of neoclassical financial economics. Namely, it considers a larger class of objective functions, not always compatible with expected utility. Second, it entertains the possibility that expectations are sometimes biased, and not updated in a Bayesian manner. Third, it considers how various financial market frictions can form strong 'limits to arbitrage'. This course is designed to introduce doctoral students to these concepts, and to support them in developing behavioral research ideas of their own. |
Applications | The registration deadline for this course is June 13, 2022. You can find the application details on the course website. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Finland. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please, send the application well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Continuous Time Finance | |
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Organizer | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics |
Instructor | Johan Waldén (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley) |
Dates | July 26 - August 5, 2022 |
Place | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden |
Information | More information will be updated on the course website and the course syllabus. |
Applications | Please register by sending an email to course secretary Jenny Wahlberg Andersson at jenny.wahlberg.andersson (@) hhs.se by June 30, 2022. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Sweden. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please note that the NFN travel grant can only cover a maximum of 5 nights of accommodation. Please make sure that you send the application before the end of June, as the NFN office is closed for July and applications will not be processed then. |
Frontiers of Household Finance | |
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Organizer | BI Norwegian Business School |
Instructor | Camelia Kuhnen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
Dates | August 8-12, 2022 |
Place | BI Norwegian Business School |
Information |
This course will cover research in household finance. We will discuss results and methods at the frontier of this field of finance and economics. We will consider several important economic decisions made by households concerning investments, leverage, consumption, and labor. We will examine how households approach these important decisions, what errors they might make in doing so, and which frictions they face when attempting to solve these problems. |
Applications |
Admittance is competitive. To apply PhD students should send an email with CV and a brief recommendation letter (either by supervisor or responsible of PhD program) by May 8 at paul.ehling (@) bi.no. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Norway. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please, send the application well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NFN OFFICE IS CLOSED FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS DURING JULY. MAKE SURE THAT YOU SEND YOUR TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATION TO THE NFN OFFICE BEFORE JULY. |
Investor Attention and Financial Markets | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame) |
Dates | August 17-19, 2022 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
Information |
This course offers a doctoral level introduction to “Investor Attention and Financial Markets” by providing an overview of cutting-edge research on the effects of investor attention on investment and corporate decisions, valuations, as well as stock returns. |
Applications | The registration deadline for this course is August 3, 2022. You can find the application details on the course website. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Finland. To apply for the Travel Grant, please use this form and send it to NFN office nfn (@) aalto.fi. Remember to ask your supervisor to also send a short recommendation email. Please, send the application well in advance to make sure that the NFN office has time to process your application and you have a chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |