Past courses - 2017
Workshop in Advanced Empirical Asset Pricing | |
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Organizer | Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) |
Instructor | Teaching: Lars Lochstoer (UCLA Anderson School of Management) |
Dates | Part I: 21, 22, 23 August 2017, Part II (with participant presentations): 11, 12 December 2017 |
Place | NHH, Bergen, Norway |
Information | Open to finance faculty and dissertation-stage finance PhD students. Syllabus Part I / Syllabys Part II. Information about lodging etc: Mai-Linn.Spigseth@nhh.no |
Applications | Mai-Linn.Spigseth@nhh.no |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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. |
Numerical Methods in FInance and Economics | |
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Organizer | BI Norwegian Business School |
Instructor | Espen Henriksen (BI Finance) and Alfonso Irarrazabal (BI Economics) |
Dates | Part 1: 5.-6.10.2017, Part 2: 19.-20.10.2017, Part 3: 2.-3.11.2017 & Part 4: 23.-24.11.2017 |
Place | BI, Oslo, Norway |
Information | Open to finance PhD
students at all stages. Link to the course syllabus: here |
Applications | Applications are sent to
phd (@) bi.no Application deadline 14.9.2017. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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. |
Financial Markets and Alternative Investments | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Matti Suominen (Aalto University) |
Dates | September 4-8, 2017 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland |
Information | This course offers a doctoral level
introduction to theoretical and empirical research on the
financial market inefficiencies, alternative risk premia, and
institutional investors' including hedge funds' dynamic investment
strategies. As a whole, the course aims to advance the ability of
students to develop research ideas of their own and work in the
field of alternative investments. Link to the course web page: here |
Applications | Application deadline is August 14, application instructions can be found in the course web page. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Climate Finance | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Harrison Hong (Columbia University) |
Dates | August 16 - 18, 2017 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland |
Information | Information about the course can be found here. |
Applications | Application deadline is July 30, application instructions can be found in the course web page. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Doctoral Seminar in Finance: What they do not teach you in Graduate School | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Professor Utpal Bhattacharya (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
Dates | August 7-11, 2017 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland |
Information | Information about the course can be found here. |
Applications | Application deadline is July 30, application instructions can be found in the course web page. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Empirical Asset Pricing | |
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Organizer | Nord University, Norway |
Instructor | Professor Turan Bali (Georgetown University, USA) |
Dates | June 19-23, 2017 |
Place | Nord University, Oslo, Norway |
Information | Link to the course web page |
Applications | See course web page |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Empirical Corporate Finance | |
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Organizer | Graduate School of Finance |
Instructor | Renée Adams (University of New South Wales) |
Dates | June 5-9, 2017 |
Place | Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland |
Information | Link to the course web page: gsf.aalto.fi/ecf |
Applications | By May 12, 2017. Applicaitons to gsf @ aalto.fi, applicaiton instructions can be found in the course web page. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Household Finance | |
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Organizer | Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies, Lund University |
Instructor | Kaveh Majlesi (Lund University & KWC) |
Dates | 2.5. - 12.5.2017 |
Place | School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden |
Information | |
Applications | Registrations by e-mail: frederik . lundtofte @ nek . lu . Registration deadline February 15. |
Travel Grant | NFN offers Travel Grants for attending PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member institutions, outside of Sweden. Swedish students may apply for a grant from the Swedish House of Finance. 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |
Topics in Empirical Asset Pricing | |
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Organizer | Aalto University School of Business |
Instructor | Professor Doron Avramov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
Dates | January 30 - February 2, 2017 |
Place | Helsinki, Aalto University School of Business |
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 the closed book exam and a term paper. Prerequisites for the course is knowledge comparable to that of Cochrane (2005): Asset Pricing book. |
Applications | Registration deadline for NFN students for this course is January 9, 2017. Please follow the application instructions in the course web site. |
Travel Grant |
NFN offers Travel Grants for this course to PhD students in finance, who come from one of the NFN member institutions, attending outside of Finland. Please notice that NFN gives Travel Grants only to the intensive course (part II) in January-February. 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 advanse to make sure that NFN-office has time to prossess your application and you have chance to ensure the cheapest tickets available. |