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 Corporate Finance | |
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| Organizer | Norwegian School of Economics |
| Instructor | Ran Duchin (Boston College) |
| Dates | May 13-16, 2024 (& final onlince session later) |
| Place | Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway |
| Information | This is an advanced PhD
level course on corporate finance. Primary topics of the course
concern finance & political economy and corporate governance.
Moreover, the course will cover finance & ESG and financial
crises. On the methodological side, emphasis will be placed on
causality and identification. Finally, the course will also
include sessions on the publication process and on how to conduct
research. More information on the course website. |
| Applications | If you are interested in participating in the course, please contact Associate Professor Konrad Raff at konrad.raff (@) 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. 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. |
| Advanced Empirical Market Microstructure | |
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| Organizer | Norwegian School of Economics |
| Instructor | Jonathan Brogaard (University of Utah) |
| Dates | May 20 - 24, 2024 |
| Place | Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway |
| Information | The course introduces students to recent
advances in the area of empirical market microstructure. After an
introduction to event studies, we will cover the topic of news and
price discovery. We will also deal with algorithmic / high
frequency trading. Finally, we will examine more specialized
topics such as the effect of short sales on market quality. More information on the course website. |
| Applications | If you are interested in participating in the course, please contact Associate Professor Konrad Raff at konrad.raff (@) 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. 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. |
| Empirical Corporate Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Renée Adams (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) |
| Dates | May 21-25, 2024 |
| 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 instructions can be found on the course website in due course. The deadline for applications is May 6, 2024. |
| 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. |
| Advanced Topics in Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | BI Norwegian Business School |
| Instructor | Jules H. van Binsbergen (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Dates | June 3-6, 2024 |
| Place | BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway |
| Information | This course exposes
students to recent developments in the asset pricing literature.
The starting point for the course is the
standard neo-classical rational expectations framework.
We will then critically investigate where this
framework has succeeded and where it has
not. Recently documented deviations from the framework in the
literature are discussed and placed in
context. The course will also focus on hypothesis development,
recent research methods, and research
writing. The ultimate objective is for students to develop
their own hypotheses and research ideas. The final
deliverable for the course is a research
proposal or (even better) a paper. In addition to lecturing by the
instructor, the second half of the course
(quarter 2) will feature presentations of research proposals as
well as discussions of recent papers by the
students More information on the course syllabus. |
| Applications | If you are interested in participating in the course, please contact Professor Paul Ehling 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. |
| Experimental Finance Summer School | |
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| Organizer | University of Stavanger |
| Instructor | Jacopo Magnani (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Nadya Malenko (Boston College), Olga A. Rud (University of Stavanger) & Orly Sade (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Dates | June 8-10, 2024 |
| Place | University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway |
| Information |
The goal of the summer school is to deepen students' understanding and knowledge of the field of experimental finance. More information on the course website. The Summer School is organized in connection with the Experimental Finance 2024 Conference taking place on June 10-13. The students are also invited to attend the conference.The conference will also host a networking session on women in finance. More information on the conference page. |
| Applications | The application deadline for the summer school is March 12, 2024. Please submit your CV and letter of motivation via https://www.conftool.org/ef2024/ |
| 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. |
| Behavioral Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Markku Kaustia (Aalto University) |
| Dates | June 10-14, 2024 |
| 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 | Application instructions can be found on the course website. The deadline for applications is May 26, 2024. |
| 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. |
| Organizer | Copenhagen Business School |
| Instructor | Kasper Meisner Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School) |
| Dates | June 26-27, 2024 |
| Place | Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| Information |
The aim of the class is to introduce PhD students in finance
and related fields to identification strategies in corporate
finance. The course is designed to provide an introduction to
some of the empirical methods used to identify causal effects
in corporate finance. We will examine how to estimate causal
effects in the presence of potentially unobserved confounding
factors and how to make proper statistical inference about
empirical estimates. The goal of the course is to provide PhD
students with a methodological framework that will enhance
their ability to design sound identification strategies in the
area of corporate finance.
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| Applications | Registration deadline is May 13, 2024. Link to registration can be found on the course website. Course fee is waived for NFN students. |
| Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Denmark. 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. |
| Summer School in Market Microstructre | |
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| Organizer | Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University |
| Instructor | Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris) & Albert Menkveld (VU Amsterdam) |
| Dates | July 1-5, 2024 |
| Place | Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Information |
A one-week full-time
intensive course on market microstructure at PhD or advanced
research master level. The course aims to acquaint students with
the field of market microstructure, both theoretically and
empirically. Market microstructure has grown rapidly as an
important subfield of finance. Research in this field focuses on
the intertwined relationships between volatility, liquidity, price
discovery, market design, and ultimately welfare. Models in market
microstructure provide a framework for the analysis of price
movements and trading volume. More information is available at the
course website. *This edition will feature
a guest lecture by Paul Milgrom (Stanford)* |
| Applications |
Application
is open, see the
course website. The deadline for
applications is December 1, 2023. |
| 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. |
| International Finance | |
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| Organizer | Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Instructor | Lucio Sarno (Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University) |
| Dates | August 5-9, 2024 |
| Place | Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Information |
The course is intended for PhD students who have completed their core courses (macro, micro, econometrics, etc.). It could be considered a necessary "field course" for those interested in international macro and finance. The course is likely to be of interest to professionals in the investment industry (e.g., quants at HFTs, at hedge funds, or at buy-side institutions), or researchers in central banks or regulatory agencies. More information will be updated on the course website. |
| Applications | Application instructions can be found on the course website in due course. |
| 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. |
| Selected Topics in Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Samuel Hartzmark (Carroll School of Management, Boston College) |
| Dates | August 14-16, 2024 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
| Information |
This course will explore recent
innovations in empirical asset pricing. Specific topics may
include mispricing due to behavioral biases, predictable returns
based on recurring firm events, and whether or not green investing
has influenced market dynamics. |
| Applications | Please see course website for instructions. The deadline for applications is August 1, 2024. |
| 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. |
| The Financial Economics of Entrepreneurship, Private Equity and Venture Capital | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | David Robinson (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) |
| Dates | August 26-30, 2024 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
| Information | This course is designed to provide a deep, fast-paced dive into the emerging field of entrepreneurial finance. We will cover both classic papers as well as new work. The ultimate objective of the course is to prepare advanced graduate students for research in this rapidly growing sector. |
| Applications | Please see course website for instructions. The deadline for applications is August 11, 2024. |
| 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. |