1st European EIF Job Market in Finance and Accounting

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Organized in collaboration with
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen Business School, Università Luigi Bocconi, ESADE (Barcelone) and RSM Erasmus University



09h00 / 09h30  Registration  (Galerie Nord)
   
09h30 / 10h00  Opening address  (Room H307)
   
   - Núria AGELL, Director Phd Program, ESADE
   - Arnaud de BRESSON, Managing Director, Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF)
   - Georges GALLAIS-HAMONNO, Chairman, Association Française de Finance (AFFI)
   - Antoine HYAFIL, Dean for Faculty and Research, HEC School of Management
   - Fulvio ORTU, Director of the PhD School, Universitá Luigi Bocconi
   
10h00 / 11h00  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Banking, Asset Pricing   (Room H303)
   - Competition, Concentration, and Bank Soundness: New Evidence from the Micro-Level (Klaus SCHAECK, University of Southampton, UK)
- Affine Equilibrim Asset Pricing Models with a Reference Level (Imen GHATTASSI, CREST, GREMAQ Université Toulouse I)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: Derivatives   (Room H302)
   - A Simple Two-Factor European Call Pricing (Hayette GATFAOUI, Université Paris I)
- Pricing Equity Swaps in an Economy with Jumps (Mia HINNERICH, Stockholm School of Economics)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 3: Investment  (Room H011)
   - Resource allocation when projects have ranges of increasing returns (Catherine BOBTCHEFF, Université Toulouse I)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 4: Risk Management Accounting  (Room H010)
   - ICAPM with time-varying risk aversion (Paulo MAIO, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Application of full fair value accounting to french banks: a simulation exercise (Salma CHTOUROU, Université Paris Dauphine)
   
   Special Session - "The French Asset Management : A Dynamic and Innovative Industry, A Wide Range of Job Opportunities" by Dominique PIGNOT, Communications Director, Association Française de la Gestion Financière (AFG) and Bernard DESCREUX, Chief Investment Officer, SOGEPOSTE  (Room H307)
   
11h00 / 12h00  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Corporate   (Room H303)
   - Syndication and Partial Exit in Venture Capital: A Signaling Approach (Florin DOROBANTU, Duke University)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: International Finance   (Room H302)
   - Herding Behavior towards the Market Index: Evidence from 21 Financial Markets (Daxue WANG, IESE Business School, Barcelona)
- Volatility and Expected Returns around the World (Samuel Xin LIANG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 3: Econometrics, Financial Mathematics   (Room H011)
   - Heterogeneous expectation and long range correlation of the valatility of asset returns (Jérôme COULON, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I)
- Skewness Premium and Lévy process (José FAJARDO, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics - IMPA, Brazil)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 4: Accounting   (Room H010)
   - Goodwill impairment losses under SFAS 142: Role of executives incentives and corporate governance (Lale GULER, Texas A&M University)
- On Time and Balanced Scorecard (Stere MIHAI, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest)
   
   Special Session - AMF The French Regulator by Claire CASTANET, Deputy Head of Department Administration and Personnel, Autorités des Marchés financiers (AMF)  (Room H307)
   
   
12h00 / 14h00  Lunch co-hosted by Jean-Paul VERMES, Vice-Président, Chargé de l'Enseignement et de la Formation, Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris (CCIP) and Jean-Michel LASRY, Senior Scientific Adviser, CALYON  (Hall d'Honneur)
   
14h00 / 15h00  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Derivatives, Investment   (Room H303)
   - Using wavelets to approximate the risk-neutral moment generating function from options (Liya SHEN, University of Essex, UK)
- Gain de la diversification dynamique à travers les stratégies de Hedge Funds (Oussama LABIDI, Université Mendès France)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: International Finance, Risk Management   (Room H302)
   - Robust Portfolio choice with generalized preferences: Towards a private banking methodology (Michel VERLAINE, ENSAM Paris)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 3: Corporate  (Room H011)
   - On the Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Voting of Mutual Funds in Israel (Yaron AMZALEG, Ben-Gurion University, Israël)
- Optimal Investment under Credit Constraint (Bertrand DJEMBISSI, Université Toulouse I)
   
   Special Session - "Crédit Agricole Group & Calyon" by Jean-Michel LASRY, Senior Scientific Adviser, Calyon  (Room H307)
   
15h00 / 16h00  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Derivatives, International Finance   (Room H303)
   - Temperature stochastic modelling and the pricing of weather derivatives (Mohammed MRAOUA, OCP Group Department of Finance, Marocco)
- Household participation in international markets : Emperical evidence from Italy (Luca DI GENNARO, University of Bologna)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: Econometrics   (Room H302)
   - Financial integration and Price discover in emerging markets:there emprical working papers (Angel LIAO, University of Wales, Bangor, UK)
- Switching VARMA Term Structures Models (Fulvio PEGORARO, Université Paris Dauphine)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 3: Corporate   (Room H010)
   - Insider Ownership, blockholders and performance of Swiss companies (Raul BARROSO, HEC Lausanne)
- Investments and Firm Characteristics (Stefan PLATIKANOV, University of Colorado at Boulder)
   
   Special Session - PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg: " A Prime Location for doing Business..."  (Room H307)
   
16h00 / 16h15  Break  (Galerie Nord)
   
16h15 / 17h15  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Derivatives, Corporate   (Room H303)
   - FX Option Pricing: Results from Black Scholes, Local Vol, Quasi q-phi and Stochastic q-phi Models (Krishnamurthy VAIDYANATHAN, CFA Institute, Charlottesville)
- Investment Banks as Information Providers in IPOs (Filippo PAVESI, Bocconi University)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: International Finance   (Room H302)
   - Is it possible to discriminate between structural change model and long memory process: Empirical evidence in the US inflation rate? (Lanouar CHARFEDDINE, ENS Cachan, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas)
- How do foreign banks contribute to economic development? (Katharina STEINER, WU Wien)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 3: Micro Structure, Investment   (Room H011)
   - Mutual Funds, Career Concerns, and Trade Volume (Massimo SCOTTI, Bocconi University)
- Multiple forecasts and outranking (Nicolas HUCK, ENS Cachan)
   
   Special Session - "Jobs in Financial Research" by Chantal PITHOIS-LATAPIE, Training Director, Société Française des Analystes Financiers (SFAF)  (Room H307)
   
   
17h15 / 18h15  Plenary session   (Room H307)
  The contribution of Research in Finance and Accounting for the Business World
   
   Moderator: - Elyès JOUINI, Vice President, Université Paris Dauphine, Research Director, Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF)
   - Carmen ANSOTEGUI, Professor, ESADE
   - Peter CLARKE, Professor, University College Dublin
   - Laurent POINSOT, Head of Equity Research, CA Chevreux
   - Jean-Charles ROCHET, Professor, Université de Toulouse
   - Jérôme TEILETCHE, Senior Quantitative Analyst, SGAM AI
   
18h15 / 18h30  Clôture - Jean LAURENT, Chairman, Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF), Chairman of the Board, CALYON  (Room H307)
   
18h30  Closing cocktail  (Galerie Nord)





(c) Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF)