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
| Investor Attention and Financial Markets | |
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| 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 | |
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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. |
| Market Microstructure PhD Mini-Course | |
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| Organizer | Stockholm School of Economics |
| Instructor | Albert "Pete" Kyle, University of Maryland |
| Dates | September 23-26, 2019 |
| Place | Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Information | |
| Applications | Please register in advance with the course secretary Jenny Wahlberg Andersson, jenny.wahlberg.andersson (@) hhs.se. |
| Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance coming from Nordic institutions outside of Swweden. 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. |
| Hedge Funds and Performance Evaluation | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | George Aragon (W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University) |
| Dates | April 6-8, 2020 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Business, Espoo, Finland |
| Information |
This workshop exposes
students to recent developments in the literature on the theory
and management of hedge funds. It is intended for doctoral
students in finance and related fields. Topics include hedge fund
trading strategies, compensation, performance evaluation,
liquidity management, operational risk, and the role of
arbitrageurs in capital markets. |
| Applications | Please see the course website for how to apply. |
| 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. |
| Topics in Empirical Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Tarun Chordia (Emory University) |
| Dates | April 14-17, 2020 |
| 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. |