Seminars

• Harris Dellas (University of Bern) “Fiscal distress and banking performance: The role of macroprudential regulation” on 27 February 2020, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Christian Brownless (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “Backtesting Global Growth at Risk”, on 20 February 2020, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Toby Daglish (Victoria University of Wellington), “This Time is Different: Corporate Bond Spreads 1927-1940” on 13 February 2020, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Ines Chaieb (University of Geneva) “How is liquidity priced in global markets?” on 06 February 2020, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Stelios Arvanitis (Athens University) “Stochastic Bounds for Portfolio Analysis” on 21 November 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Agnese Leonello (European Central Bank) “The interdependence of bank capital and liquidit”, on 14 November 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Rik Frehen (Tilburg University) “Does credit affect stock trading? Evidence from the South Sea Bubble”, on 07 November 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Peter Schwendner (ZHAW School of Management and Law), “Sentiment Analysis of European Bonds 2016-2018”, on 31 October 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Tony Moore (U of Reading) “Credit risk and default rates in medieval London, 1285-1363”, on 24 October 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Phelim Boyle (Wilfrid Laurier University) “Age Matters”, on 10 October 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London), “Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?”, on 03 October 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Lorenzo Trapani (University of Nottingham) “Determining the dimension of factor structures in non-stationary large datasets”, on 19 September 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Anne Opschoor (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Observation-driven Models for Realized Variances and Overnight Returns”, on 09 September 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Mungo Wilson (University of Oxford) “The Lost Capital Asset Pricing Model” on 7 March 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Erwan Morellec (SFI) “Debt, Innovation and Growth” on 14 March 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• William Goetzmann (Yale) “Factor Premia in Private Equity” on 21 March 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Damir Filipovic (SFI) “A Term-Structure Model for Dividends and Interest Rates” on 26 March 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Arman Eshraghi (Cardiff) “Transparency and Investment Decisions: Evidence from Disposition Effect” on 4 April 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Theodor Cojoianu (UCD) “Going from Zero to One: How Environmental Knowledge and Policy Shapes Start-Up Creation across Green, Brown and Gray Industries” on 11 April 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Emmanuel Eyiah-Donker (UCD) “Crude Oil Return Predictability Revised” on 11 April 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Chris Adcock (SOAS U of London) “Market Crashes and the Capital Asset Pricing Model” on 25 April 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Thomas Conlon was moderator for a plenary session on “Blockchain and Aircraft Finance” organised by BlockW and held at the Consensus offices on 26 February 2019.
• Heiko Jacobs (University of Duisburg-Essen) “Anomalies Across the Globe: Once Public, No Longer Existent?” on 20 September 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Lyndon Moore (University of Melbourne) “Rejected Stock Exchange Applicants: The fish that John West rejects” on 27 September 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Abhinav Goyal (University of Liverpool) “Media Coverage and IPO Pricing Around the World” on 4 October 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Hugues Langois (HEC Paris) “Measuring Skewness Premia” on 18 October 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Stephen Figlewski (NYU) “An American Call IS Worth More than a European Call: The Value of American Exercise When the Market is Not Perfectly Liquid”, on 25 October 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Pasquale Della Corte (Imperial College London) “Currency Mispricing and Dealer Balance Sheets” on 1 November 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Markus Leippold (University of Zurich) “Idiosyncratic Volatility Trends and Market Structure” on 15 November 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Maria Gutierrez (U Carlos III de Madrid) “Managerial Incentives for Attracting Attention” on 22 November 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Pedro Martinez-Solano (University of Murcia) “” on 6 December 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• John Fitzgerald (Trinity College Dublin) “Managing a Century of Debt” on 31 January 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Andrew Urquhart (U of Reading) “CEO education and firm performance” on 7 February 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Thierry Post (Nazarbayev University) “Risk Arbitrage Opportunities for Stock Index Options” on 14 February 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Joelle Miffre (EDHEC) “Speculative Pressure” on 21 February 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• David Edelman (UCD) “A new Gradient Boosting Model with a case study from Horserace Betting Markets” on 28 February 2019, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Erwin Morellec (Swiss Finance Institute): 17 May 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management): 26 April 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Francesco Franzoni (SFI Lugano): 19 April 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Andreas Hoepner (UCD): 5 April 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Paul McGuinness (Chinese University of Hong Kong): 29 March 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Bige Kahraman (University of Oxford): 15 March 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Graeme Acheson (University of Stirling): 8 March 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Georgy Chabakauri (London School of Economics): 1 March 2018, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Jacquelyn Humphrey (University of Queensland): To what extent to environmental rating schemes capture climate goals? 21 September 2017, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Chris Brooks (University of Reading): Gender and attitude to finacial risk: Is what is good for the goose good for the gander? 28 September 2017, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Niamh Brennan (UCD): Performance Measures in CEO Annual Incentive Plans: New Evidence from the Compensation Discussion and Analysis. 5 October 2017, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Cormac MacFhionnlaoich (UCD): When Economists Learn to Trust: Lessons from Nobel Prize Winners. 26 October 2017, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Martina Asserto (UCD): Volatility Modelling using GARCH as an input for real options: the case of solar energy in the U.S. 2 November 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Mohamad Faour (UCD): Investor anticipation and the stock price reaction to dividend initiations and omissions. 2 November 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Eva Lütkebohmert-Holtz (Freiburg): Calculating Capital Charges for Sector Concentration Risk. 9 November 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• David McMillan (University of Stirling): How many factors? Does adding momentum and volatility improve performance. 16 November 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Irena Zviadadze (Stockholm School of Economics): Term structure of risk in expected returns. 23 November 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Aneel Keswani (CASS Business School): Culture and mutual funds. 30 November 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Rustam Ibragimov (Imperial): Robust Inference Under Heavy-Tailedness and Nonlinear Dependence: Market Efficiency, Volatility Clustering, Stock Return Predictability and Beyond. 7 December 2017. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Michael Brennan (UCLA): Expected Returns and Risk in the Stock Market. 10 January 2018. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Julia Byrne organized Matlab workshop in UCD Belfield 13-14 March 2017.
• Colin Spain, Gaelectric presentation, Smurfit Graduate Business School, 2017
• Kieran Fitzgerald, Allied Irish Bank, presentation at Smurfit Graduate Business School: “Financing renewable Energy”, 2017
• Conor Foley, Deloitte, presentation at Smurfit Graduate Business School: “Financing Large Capital Projects”, 2017
• Anxo Calvo, workshop at Smurfit Graduate Business School: “Assessing the feasibility of wind farm investment in Spain”, 2017.
• Paul Devereux (UCD): Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth. 1 February 2018. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Alberto Martin-Utrera (Lancaster University Management School): A Portfolio Perspective on the Multitude of Firm Characteristics, 8 February 2018. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Philipp Krueger (University of Geneva, Swiss Finance Institute): The Sustainability Footprint of Institutional Investors, 15 February 2018. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
• Cristina Amado (University of Minho): Financial Market Contagion and the Sovereign Debt Crisis: A Smooth Transition Approach, 22 February 2018. UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.