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Eurex-Deutsche Borse follow up on finance academics’ paper

Eurex-Deutsche Borse spoke with Dr. Silvia Stanescu and Prof. Radu Tunaru, Kent Business School, about their recently published study in which they examine historical data on S&P500 and EURO STOXX® 50, VIX and VSTOXX®, VIX and VSTOXX® Futures. The interview … Continue reading

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Dr Huamao Wang’s paper to be published in the Journal of Mathematical Economics

Dr Huamao Wang (SMSAS) paper ‘Learning, pricing, timing and hedging of the option to invest for perpetual cash flows with idiosyncratic risk’, joint with Zhaojun Yang and Dandan Song (Hunan University, China) has been accepted for publication in Journal of … Continue reading

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Kent Business School professor invited to contribute a chapter in the latest SUERF study

Professor Radu Tunaru’s work on “The Fundamental Economic Term of Commercial Real-Estate in UK” features in the latest SUERF study 2013/14 PROPERTY PRICES AND REAL ESTATE FINANCING IN A TURBULENT WORLD, edited by Morten Balling. Other contributors to the same … Continue reading

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KBS senior lecturer invited to contribute a chapter in a new book on Wavelet Applications in Economics and Finance

Dr. Ekaterini Panopoulou’s paper co-authored with Sarantis Kalyvitis and entitled “Measuring Risk Aversion across Countries from the Consumption-CAPM: A Spectral Approach” has been included in the new book “Wavelet Applications in Economics and Finance” which will be published by Springer … Continue reading

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Students on the MSc in Financial Markets and MSc Financial Services in Banking visited Bloomberg offices and experienced how information in financial markets is gathered in London offices

The visit was organised by the Kent Business School on 29 November for the Masters students of Financial Markets and of Financial Services in Banking programmes. The students toured the Bloomberg offices and took part in a specially designed interactive … Continue reading

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Kent finance expert delighted at colleague’s Nobel Prize win

Professor Radu Tunaru at Kent Business School (KBS) has sent his warmest congratulations to Yale University’s Professor Robert Shiller – winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Economics. Professor Tunaru, who is a specialist in Structured Finance and Director of … Continue reading

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Students of MSc Finance, Investment and Risk awarded scholarships by the CFA Institute

Congratulations to Jhaneshi Jugessur and Nainam Seedoyal students of MSc in Finance, Investment and Risk who have been awarded CFA Institute scholarships. Each year the CFA Institute awards up to five scholarships to students on the MSc in Finance, Investment … Continue reading

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Lecture and training session by the fixed Income specialist from Bloomberg

Tibor Szigeti who has many years of experience as a bond trader/ market maker delivered a lecture and led a training session for students on the MSc in Finance, Investment and Risk at the School of Mathematics on interest rates, … Continue reading

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Another KBS paper makes SSRN TOP 10 DOWNLOADS list within days of being uploaded

A recent research paper authored by Ekaterini Panopoulou of Kent Business School (joint with L. Meligkotsidou, I. Vrontos and S. Vrontos) entitled ‘Out-of-sample equity premium prediction: A complete subset quantile regression approach’ has ranked among the TOP 10 most downloaded papers in … Continue reading

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International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics

Dr. Ekaterini Panopoulou is organizing an exciting session on “Recent advances in forecasting financial time series” at the 7th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2013) which will take place at the Senate House, University of London, UK, 14-16 … Continue reading

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