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Conference Program


List of speakers and abstracts

Keynote speeches

 

Friday, November 8



10.00   Opening speeches    
Sergey Yakovlev, Director of ICEF 
Konstantin Sonin, Vice Rector of the Higher School of Economics
10.10Session 1 “Aggregate dynamics and financial markets”

Aggregate Investment and Stock Returns
Presenter: Dmitry Livdan, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley (co-authors: Fernando Duarte and Leonid Kogan)
Discussant: Dimitrios Tsomocos, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
PresentationDiscussion
Volatility Risk Premia and Exchange Rate Predictability
Presenter: Lucio Sarno, Cass Business School, City University London and CEPR (co-authors: Pasquale della Corte and Tarun Ramadorai)
Discussant: Vladimir Sokolov, ICEF, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
PresentationDiscussion

12.00Keynote speech 1

The Macroeconomic Determinants of Financial Predictability
Rajnish Mehra, Luxembourg School of Finance, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, and NBER

13.20Lunch

14.30Session 2 “Corporate Finance”

Does Nationalization Work? Evidence from Russian State Takeovers
Presenter: Carsten Sprenger, ICEF, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Discussant: Thomas Noe, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
PresentationDiscussion
Empirics of Executive Compensation: What Determines CEO Pay?

Presenter: Stanimir Morfov, ICEF, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Discussant: Bart Taub, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
PresentationDiscussion

16.00Coffee break
 
16.30Session 3 “Option Pricing and Market Microstructure”

Affine Option Pricing Model in Discrete Time
Presenter: Stanislav Khrapov, New Economic School, Moscow
Discussant: Marcelo Fernandes, Queen Mary University London
PresentationDiscussion
Dealer Networks: Market Quality in Over-The-Counter Markets
Presenter: Norman Schurhoff, University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, and CEPR (co-author: Dan Li)
Discussant: Christian Julliard, London School of Economics
PresentationDiscussion
18.00Coffee break  
18.30Keynote speech 2

Systemic Risk, Sovereign Yields and Bank Exposures in the Euro Crisis

Marco Pagano, Università di Napoli Federico II, CSEF, EIEF and CEPR

 
20.00Reception 

 

Saturday, November 9

10.00Session 4 “Econometrics and finance”

Who’s afraid of selection bias? Robust inference in the presence of competitive selection
Presenter: Thomas Noe, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Discussant: Alexey Boulatov, ICEF, Higher School of Economics
PresentationDiscussion
Conditional alphas and realized betas
Presenter: Marcelo Fernandes, Queen Mary University London (co-authors Walter Distaso and Valentina Corradi)
Discussant: Sergey Gelman, ICEF, Higher School of Economics
PresentationDiscussion

11.30Coffee break
 
12.00Session 5 “Mutual and hedge funds”

Hedge Fund (Non)Transparency: Skill or Risk-taking?
Presenter: Olga Kuzmina, New Economic School, Moscow (with Sergiy Gorovyy)
Discussant: Branko Urošević, University of Belgrade and National Bank of Serbia
PresentationDiscussion
Competition among Portfolio Managers and Asset Specialization
Presenter: Dmitry Makarov, New Economic School, Moscow
Discussant: Mihail Zervos, London School of Economics
PresentationDiscussion

13.30Lunch

 

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