ERSC-CEA@Cass Seminar Series in Financial Econometrics 2

Modelling treasure and corporate yields, and the risk sources associated with the movements of the term structure of interest rates

October 2008 - September 2010

The Centre for Econometric Analysis @ Cass Business School is pleased to announce the continuation of its successful Seminar Series in Financial Econometrics.

Background and aims

Themes and intended audience

Programme of events

Conferences

Chicago/London Conference on Financial Markets Part One:
What Went Wrong? Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, and the Current Stress.

5 - 6 December 2008 In collaboration with the International Center for Futures and Derivatives (ICFD), Finance Department, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Chicago/London Conference on Financial Markets Part Two:
Financial Markets: How Real?
1 -2 May 2009
In collaboration with the International Center for Futures and Derivatives (ICFD), Finance Department, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Chicago/London Conference on Financial Markets Part Three:
Factor Models in Economics and Finance
4-5 December 2009

Cass Business School

High Dimensional Econometric Modelling Conference Part Four
3-4 December 2010
Cass Business School

Seminars

Seminar 1
Andrew Sentance: 'The current financial crisis - lessons for monetary policy'
25 February 2009 (12:30-13:30, Room 2005)
By invitation only

Seminar 2
Michael J. Fleming (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA)
Repo Market Effects of the Term Securities Lending Facility (with W.B. Hrung and F.M. Keane)
5th October 2009 (12:30-13:30, Room 2005)

Seminar 3
Ravi Jagannathan (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA) Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Stock Selection by Mutual Fund (with Z. Da and P. Gao)
7th October 2009 (12:30-14:00, Room 2005)

Seminar 4
Ravi Jagannathan (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA)
Why are we in a recession? The financial crisis is the symptom not the disease" (with M. Kapoor and E. Schaumburg)
8th October 2009 (12:15-13:30, Room 6038)

Seminar 5
Andy Haldane (Executive Director, Financial Stability, Bank of England) "Public Policy in an Era of Super-Systemic Risk"
16 February 2010 (17:00-18:30, Room 2002)

Seminar 6
Andrew Smithers (Smithers & Co. Ltd.)

"Imperfect Markets and Inept Central Bankers"
23 February 2010 (17:00-18:30, Room 2002)

Further events will be announced as details become available.

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 (G.N. RES-451-26-0533)

Journal of Applied Econometrics