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Professor Roman Matousek organizes a research workshop in Bloomberg office

Professor Roman Matousek, Kent Business School organizes a research workshop that will be held in Bloomberg London’s Office on 2 July 2014. The workshop aims to focus on the post financial crisis period and the implication of systemic changes in … Continue reading

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Dr. Silvia Stanescu invited to speak at prestigious quantitative finance practitioners’ conference

Dr. Silvia Stanescu was invited to speak at the 2014 ICBI Global Derivatives Conference, a prestigious quantitative finance practitioners’ conference, where she presented recent joint work with Professor Radu Tunaru on investment strategies with volatility derivatives. In the first part … Continue reading

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Tommaso Paletta presents at Bachelier congress

Tommaso Paletta has presented a poster at the prestigious Bachelier congress that was hold in Bruxelles this year. Tommaso has presented a summary of one of his papers “Pricing and Hedging Basket Options with Exact Moment Matching”, jointly with Dr. … Continue reading

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Dr Huamao Wang speaks at 4th International Conference of Financial Engineering and Banking Society

Dr Huamao Wang (SMSAS) made a presentation titled Investment for cash flows with mixed-costs guarantee and jump risk, joint with Pengfei Luo and Zhaojun Yang,at the 4th International Conference of Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS), University of Surrey, on … Continue reading

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KBS visiting PhD student awarded!

Mauro Mastella, PhD student from Brazil visiting Kent Business School, was awarded “Best Panel Presentation” at the III Oxbridge Conference on Brazilian Studies, at the University of Oxford. On the 10th May, Mauro presented some preliminary results of his research “Implied volatility modelling … Continue reading

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Working paper presented at the 7th Financial Risks International Forum in Paris

Dr Nikolaos Voukelatos from Ken Business School had a working paper presented at the 7th Financial Risks International Forum at Paris in March 2014. The paper examines the effects of tick size changes on the liquidity of options markets.

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31st French Finance Association Conference (AFFI)

Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou (KBS) presented her paper “Hedge Fund Return Predictability; To Combine Forecasts or Combine Information” joint with S. Vrontos at the 31st French Finance Association Conference, held at Puyricard, Aix-en-Provence at the IAE Aix Graduate School of Management, Aix-Marseille … Continue reading

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Working paper presented at the 31st Spring International Conference of the French Finance Association in Aix-en-Provence

Dr Nikolaos Voukelatos (KBS) had a working paper presented at the 31st Spring International Conference of the French Finance Association at Aix-en-Provence in May 2014. The paper examines the effects of tick size changes on the liquidity of options markets.

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10th BMRC-DEMS Conference on Macro and Financial Economics/Econometrics

Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou from Kent Business School (KBS) presented her paper “Speculative behaviour and oil price predictability” joint with T. Pantelidis at the 10th BMRC-DEMS Conference on Macro and Financial Economics/Econometrics held at the Brunel University (May 28-30, 2014). The conference was sponsored … Continue reading

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Dr Antonis Alexandridis has paper accepted in ITISE 2014

A research paper by Dr Antonis Alexandridis has been accepted in the International work-conference on Time Series 2014. Messis, P., Alexandridis, A., Zapranis, A., “Testing and Comparing Conditional CAPM with A New Approach in The Cross-Sectional Framework”.  The paper will be … Continue reading

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