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
| Survey Evidence in Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Samuel Hartzmark (Carroll School of Management, Boston College |
| Dates | October 4-6, 2023 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
| Information |
This course will explore survey design and
the application of survey evidence to the study of finance. The
class will include an overview of the literature surrounding
survey design with a focus on learning how to design questions
that elicit accurate and meaningful answers. It will discuss
strengths and shortcomings of survey evidence and what finance
applications are promising for its use. The course will cover the
evolution of surveys in finance and discuss a number of current
papers that utilize survey evidence. |
| Applications | Application deadline is September 22, 2023. 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. |
| Continuous-Time Models for Empirical Corporate Finance | |
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| Organizer | Aarhus University |
| Instructor | Christopher Hennessy (London Business School) |
| Dates | October 24-26, 2023 |
| Place | Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark |
| Information | This course offers a practical tool-box of
corporate finance models that can be mapped tightly to the data.
Emphasis will be placed on practicality and simplicity, as opposed
to theoretical rigor. Hence, we will focus on those models that
are easiest to implement and build upon. More information on the course website |
| Applications | Registration deadline is October 1, 2023. Instructions for registration will be updated on the course website. |
| 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. |
| Big Data Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | Copenhagen Business School |
| Instructor | Lasse Heje Pedersen & Marc Hartung Eskildsen (Copenhagen Business School) |
| Dates | January 18 - February 29, 2024 |
| Place | Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark / Hybrid |
| Information |
The aim of the class is to introduce Ph.D. students in finance and
related fields to empirical asset pricing research methods using
big data. The course provides students with empirical asset pricing tools to use big data to analyze modern topics in financial economics. The course starts with a quick overview of asset pricing, empirical asset pricing, and how to work with big financial data. The course then covers the factor zoo, multiple testing adjustments, replication, machine learning in asset pricing, and asset pricing with frictions. In addition to the theoretical discussion, the students will gain access to a large data set of global equity returns and use this data to solve several mandatory exercises, which constitute an essential part of the course. More information on the course website. |
| Applications | Registration deadline is December 7, 2023. Link to registration can be found on the course website. Course fee is waived for NFN students. |
| Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants to cover part of the travel expenses 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. |
| Topics in Empirical Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) |
| Dates | April 2-5, 2024 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
| Information | More information will be updated on the
course website. This NFN course refers to part
II of the GSF course Empirical Asset Pricing. This intensive
course is worth 3 ECTS credits. |
| Applications | Application deadline is March 11, 2024. 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. |
| Empirical Corporate Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Renée Adams (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) |
| Dates | May/June 2024 (dates TBC) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Behavioral Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Markku Kaustia (Aalto University) |
| Dates | June 2024 (dates TBC) |
| 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 | Information about applications will be updated in due course to the GSF 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. |