Past courses - 2012
| Forecasting Methods in Economics and Finance | |
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| Organizer | Aarhus University |
| Instructor | Allan Timmermann |
| Dates | August 22 - 24, 2012 |
| Place | Aarhus University, Department of Economics and Business |
| Information | Course homepage |
| Applications | See course homepage. |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Denmark in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
| Behavioral Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance, Aalto University |
| Instructor | Professor Harrison Hong (Princeton University) |
| Dates | August 20 - 24, 2012 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Economics |
| Information | Course homepage |
| Applications | Applications are sent directly to the course organizer gsf (at) aalto.fi. Follow the instructions given by the course organizer promptly. Always send your complete contact information, a report on the status of your doctoral studies and your supervisor's name, and your CV. |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Finland in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
| Economic Modelling and Inference | |
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| Organizer | Aarhus University |
| Instructor | Bent Jesper Christensen |
| Dates | August 13 - 17, 2012 |
| Place | Aarhus University, Department of Economics and Business |
| Information | Course homepage |
| Applications | Link to Registration |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Denmark in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
| Advanced Asset Pricing | |
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| Organizer | The Danish Doctoral School of Finance |
| Instructor | Professor Nicole Branger (Finance Center Münster, Universität Münster) |
| Dates | End of June 2012 (week 26) |
| Place | The Academic Study of Economics, Odense |
| Information | Course homepage |
| Applications | Please contact Nicole Branger (nicole.branger ( at) wiwi.uni-muenster.de) 4th June latest. |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Denmark in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
| PhD Course on Credit Modelling | |
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| Organizer | Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences |
| Instructor | Professor Damiano Brigo (King's College London) |
| Dates | May 24 - 25, 2012 |
| Place | Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences |
| Information | Course website |
| Applications | Registration deadline: 1 May 2012 to sla (at) asb.dk |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Denmark in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
| Empirical Corporate Finance | |
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| Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
| Instructor | Professor Renée Adams (University of South Wales) |
| Dates | May 21 - 25, 2012 |
| Place | Aalto University School of Economics |
| Information | Course website |
| Applications | Applications are sent directly to the course organizer gsf (at) aalto.fi. Follow the instructions given by the course organizer promptly. |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Finland in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
| The Mini PhD Course on Dynamic Principal Agent Models: A Continuous Time Approach | |
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| Organizer | Stockholm School of Economics |
| Instructor | Sebastian Pfeil (University of Frankfurt) and Florian Hoffmann (University of Frankfurt) |
| Dates | April 23 - 27, 2012 |
| Place | Stockholm School of Economics, Finance Department |
| Information | The course tentatively covers the fundamental methods developed in: Biais, Mariotti, Plantin and Rochet, 2007, "Dynamic Security Design: Convergence to Continuous Time and Asset Pricing Implications," Review of Economic Studies. Demarzo and Sannikov, 2006, "Optimal Security Design and Dynamic Capital Structure in a Continuous- Time Agency-Model," Journal of Finance. Sannikov, 2008, A Continuous-Time Version of the Principal Agent-Problem," Review of Economic Studies. And some papers that extend these methods: DeMarzo, Fishman, He, and Wang 2011, "Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment," Journal of Finance, forthcoming. He, 2009," Optimal Executive Compensation when Firm Size Follows a Geometric Brownian Motion," Review of Financial Studies. Hoffmann and Pfeil, 2010, "Review for Luck in a Dynamic Agency Model," Review of Financial Studies. |
| Applications | Registration with Lisa Klein, lisa.klein (at) hhs.se |
| Travel Grant | NFN will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Baltic doctoral students in finance coming outside of Sweden in order to participate in this course. Please apply for travel grant with this form (rtf). The applications are sent to nfn (at) aalto.fi. |
