The Chicago/London Conference on Financial Markets - Part 1
What Went Wrong? Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, and the Current Stress.
5-6 December 2008
Cass Business School
The purpose of this conference was to stimulate an ongoing dialogue among academics,
practitioners, and policymakers with mutual interests in financial markets.
Chicago and London are unique in having large communities of scholars engaged in
financial market research and practitioners working with cutting-edge financial
market products.
The conference was open to all those interested from academic and non-academic
organisations. It had only invited speakers.
Conference Sponsors:
- CEA - Centre for Econometric Analysis
- UIC International Center for Futures and Derivatives
- CME Trust
- Cass Business School (Knowledge Transfer Fund/Higher Innovation Fund)
- Bank of England
- ESRC
- Journal of Applied Econometrics
Conference Series Organisers:
- Centre for Econometric Analysis (CEA),
Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School, City of London.
Giovanni Urga - International Center for Futures
and Derivatives (ICFD), Finance Department, University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC).
Gib Bassett and Bob Chirinko
Location
Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London.EC1Y 8TZ
UK




