Society of Financial Econometrics Summer School 2019
"The Econometrics and Asset Pricing of Foreign Exchange Markets"
The SoFiE Financial Econometrics Summer School in North America will take place at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, from Monday July 15 through Friday July 19, 2019.
Topics for the Summer School:
- Overview of Empirical FX Market Microstructure literature on Price Discovery, Order Flow, Liquidity, and Volume
- Description and Discussion of Rationale for the Breakdown of the Covered Interest Rate Parity Condition
- Exchange Rate Predictability: Review Empirical Evidence, Examine Theory-motivated Predictors
- Risk Premia in FX - Uncovered interest Rate Parity and Traditional Fama Decomposition
- Cross-Sectional FX Asset Pricing: dollar, carry, global imbalance, trade costs, network centrality, momentum, and value
- FX Options: Risk-Neutral Moments, Volatility Risk Premia, Crash Risk, and Term Structure of Implied Volatility
- Long Run Risk for International Bond Portfolios
- International Finance Models with Recursive Preferences
- Market (in)completeness and pricing kernels in the context of the FX literature.
- Term Structures and Interest Rate Option in Incomplete Markets
The editorial board for these annual series is made up of Professors Torben G. Andersen (Northwestern), Luc Bauwens (Catholic University of Louvain), Francis X. Diebold (University of Pennsylvania, past President of SoFiE), Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Secretary and Founding Co-President of SoFiE), Ravi Jagannathan (Northwestern and Past President SoFiE), Per Mykland (University of Chicago and President SoFiE), Eric Renault (Brown University and past SoFiE President), Neil Shephard (Harvard University) and Viktor Todorov (Northwestern).
Contact
If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to the Academic Events Coordinator supporting this event.
Confirmed Lecturers:
Torben G. Andersen
Professor of Finance
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Riccardo Colacito
Professor of Finance
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Viktor Todorov
Professor of Risk Management and Professor of Finance,
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Zhengyang Jiang
Assistant Professor of Finance
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Application Process:
Applications should be sent to sofieschool@kellogg.northwestern.edu (with the words ``SoFiE Summer School 2019’’ in the subject box). The applications should include a full CV and a motivation letter of half a page explaining why attending this course would be helpful to the applicant’s research. The application deadline is April 21, 2019. Decisions will be emailed by mid-May.
Paper presentations: Applicants are strongly encouraged to present some of their own work during the afternoon sessions. For this, they are encouraged to include a paper or a long abstract along with the summer school application. All topics in financial econometrics are acceptable, but with some preference given to topics that are in line with the theme of the summer school. Papers will be selected by the organizing committee.
Fee for attending the school: $200 for academics and $750 for non-academics. Confirmation of admission of selected applicants is conditional on receipt of the fee payment in due time (details to be provided in the admission email).
All accepted participants are expected to be members of the Society for Financial Econometrics or to join before their place is confirmed. See http://sofie.stern.nyu.edu/membership on how to join the society (where a student membership option is available).
Travel and accommodation costs: Attendees are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. A list of suitable local hotels will be provided. During the teaching schedule (Monday-Friday), lunch, coffee and tea will be provided free of charge. A free social event will be organized during the week after teaching on one day where students and faculty can meet informally. Evening meals will not be organized and will be at the participants’ own expense.