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
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 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. |
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. |
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 | TBA |
Applications | TBA |
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. |