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7th International Workshop Methods in International Finance Network (MIFN) to be held at the University of Namur, Belgium

Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou from Kent Business School will present a working paper entitled “Out-of-sample equity premium prediction: a complete subset quantile regression approach” at the 7th MIFN conference to be held at the University of Namur, Belgium between the 23rd … Continue reading

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Finance PhD students gain entry to prestigious summer school

Catalin Cantia and Tommaso Paletta, PhD students in Finance in their second year working under the supervision of Prof. Radu Tunaru, Dr. Silvia Stanescu and Dr. Nikolaos Voukelatos , have been accepted to the Sixth European Summer School in Financial Mathematics, which is organised in Vienna this year in August. The European … Continue reading

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Business School Professor appointed Associate Editor of prestigious journal

Professor in Quantitative Finance Radu Tunaru has been appointed Associate Editor on the board of the Journal of Banking and Finance. He says that this is a very high achievement since this journal is widely regarded as one of the … Continue reading

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SIRE Conference on “Finance and Commodities” to be held at Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Dr Huamao Wang from School of Mathematics will present a working paper “Momentum and Reversion or Uncertainty in Dynamic Asset Allocation” at the conference “Finance and Commodities” at The University of St. Andrews between the 12th and 14th July 2013. … Continue reading

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Bloomberg training session

Students on the MSc in Finance, Investment and Risk programme took part in a session in the School of Mathematics’ Finance Lab to explore further the functionality and analytics offered by Bloomberg platform. The session led by Bloomberg analysis and … Continue reading

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Professor of Finance appointed a Subject Matter Expert

Kent Business School’s Professor Radu Tunaru has been appointed a Subject Matter Expert in one of the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) Advisory Groups. He has been approved to serve on the Quantitative (Quantitative tools, Quantitative risk modeling, Monte … Continue reading

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International conference on Banks, Financial Markets and Institutions in Europe

An international conference on Banks, Financial Markets and Institutions in Europe was held at the University of Southampton, UK, in association with the Journal of International Money. Dr Antonis Alexandridis presented a paper “Global Financial Crisis and Multi-scale Systematic Risk: … Continue reading

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Professor of Finance appointed to the board of the European Financial Management Association

Professor Radu Tunaru has been elected on the board of directors of the European Financial Management Association, see http://efmaefm.org/0EFMAMEETINGS/officers.shtml Professor Tunaru has been working in Quantitative Finance since 2000 and he specializes in Structured Finance (credit Risk), Derivatives Pricing and … Continue reading

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The Arne Ryde Workshop in Financial Economics, Lund University, Sweden.

Dr Huamao Wang from School of Mathematics, University of Kent presented a paper “Entrepreneurial Finance with Endogenous Borrowing Constraints and Idiosyncratic Risk” at The Arne Ryde Workshop in Financial Economics, Lund University, Sweden. The paper introduces an innovative financial contract, … Continue reading

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Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

Dr Antonis Alexandridis from the School of Mathematics, University of Kent presented a paper “Non-linear non-parametric temperature modeling in the context of weather derivatives pricing” in the Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The study aims to develop … Continue reading

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