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

Course calendar 2018

Course calendar 2019

Advanced Topics in Behavioral Finance
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
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
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	PDF
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
Organizer	Graduate School of Finance
Instructor	Tarun Chordia (Emory University)
Dates	April 15-18, 2019
Place	Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, 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.

Investor Attention and Financial Markets
Organizer	Graduate School of Finance
Instructor	Zhi Da (Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame)
Dates	August 12-16, 2019
Place	Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland
Information	Visit the course website
Applications	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.

PhD Summer School in Finance
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.