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
| Advanced Topics in Behavioral Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Harrison Hong (Columbia University) |
| Dates | August 15-17, 2018 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland |
| Information | Visit the course website |
| Applications | By August 8, 2018. Applications to gsf @ aalto.fi, 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. 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. |
| Empirical Asset Pricing II | |
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| Organizer | Norwegian School of Economics |
| Instructor | Lars A. Lochstoer (UCLA Anderson School of Management) |
| Dates | August 20-22 & December 11-12, 2018 |
| Place | NHH, Bergen, Norway |
| Information | Syllabus |
| Applications | You can register for the course by sending an e-mail to phd@nhh.no and Olga.Pushkash@nhh.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. 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. |
| PhD Mini Course on Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance: Theory, Empirics, and Policy | |
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| Organizer | Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies at Lund University and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) |
| Instructor | Professor Lars Persson and Dr Joacim Tåg (Research Institute of Industrial Economics) |
| Dates | March 11-15, 2019 |
| Place | Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies, Lund, Sweden |
| Information | |
| Applications | Applications (cover letter, CV and recommendation letter) are sent directly to elisabeth.gustafsson (at) ifn.se by December 31, 2018. |
| 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. 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. |
| Topics in Empirical Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) |
| Dates | April 15-18, 2019 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland |
| Information | Link to the course website is here. This NFN course refers to part II of the GSF course Empirical Asset Pricing. This intensive course is worth 3 ECTS credits. Grading by a closed book exam and a term paper. |
| Applications | Application deadline is April 1, application instructions can be found on the course web page. |
| 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. 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. |
| PhD Summer School in Finance | |
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| Organizer | NTNU Business School (Florentina Paraschiv, Professor of Financial Economics) |
| Dates | August 22 - September 6, 2019 |
| Place | NTNU Business School, Trondheim, Norway |
| Information | Quantitative Aspects
of Financial Regulation, 3 ECTS Professor Florentina Paraschiv, NTNU Business School August 22-23, 2019 Empirical Banking - Methods and Applications, 3 ECTS Professor Steven Ongena, University of Zurich August 26-29, 2019 Complexity & Behaviour, 3 ECTS Professor Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam August 26-29, 2019 PhD Workshop September 2, 2019 Empirical Finance, 3 ECTS Professor Paul Söderlind, University of St. Gallen September 3-6, 2019 Real Estate Finance, 3 ECTS Professor Roland Füss, University of St. Gallen September 3-6, 2019 The summer school if funded by the Norwegian Finance Initiative (NFI) and NTNU More information here |
| Applications | To apply, please send an email to Randi Leikvold, randi.leikvold (@) ntnu.no |
| Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for a limited number of 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. Please note that the individual travel grant covers travel costs and accommodation up to five nights. |