2nd European EIF Job Market in Finance and Accounting

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Program

08h00 / 08h30  Registration  
   
08h30 / 08h45  Opening address   (Salon Monge)
   
   - Jean LAURENT, Chairman, Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF)
   
08h45 / 10h15  Plenary Session: Mathematics and Financial Innovations   (Salon Monge)
   
   - Pr. Nicole EL-KAROUI, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
   - Jean-Michel LASRY, Senior Scientific Adviser, CALYON
   - Pr. Fulvio ORTU, Professor, Bocconi University
   - Pr. Jean-Charles ROCHET, Professor, University of Toulouse-1
   - Pr. Chris ROGERS, Professor, Cambridge University
   
10h15 / 10h30  Break  
   
10h30 / 11h30  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Asset Pricing I   (Salon Panthéon)
   - Time-varying Default Risk Premia in Corporate Bond Markets (Redouane ELKAMHI, McGill University)
- Option Pricing under Stochastic Volatility, Jumps and Incomplete Information (Sana MAHFOUDH, University of Tunis)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: Credit Risk   (Salon Pontoise)
   - Switching Parisians: A Default Risk Model with Grace Periods and Regime Switching (Rosario MONTER, HEC - Lausanne and University of Lyon-1)
- Individual Credit and Informality: Compatible or Antinomic? A Brazilian Experiment (Laure JAUNAUX, University of Paris-9)
   
   Special Session: "The French Finance Authority: Role, Missions, and Commitment in Research" by Anne-Sophie FIOR, Head of Human Resources, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF)   (Salon Monge)
   
11h30 / 12h30  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Mathematical Finance I   (Salon Panthéon)
   - Spectral Iterative Estimation of Tempered Stable Stochastic Volatility Models and Option Pricing (Junye LI, Bocconi University)
- Economic Value of Intelligently Sub-sampled Realized Covariance of Asynchronous and Noisy High-Frequency Data (Lada KYJ, Rice University)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: Corporate Finance I   (Salon Pontoise)
   - Career Concern and Financial Markets (Yolanda PORTILLA, University of Madrid)
- Political Connections of Newly Privatized Firms (Walid SAFFAR, HEC - Montréal)
   
   Special Session: "The World Growing Role of the French Asset Management Industry" by Dominique PIGNOT, Communications Director, Association Française de la Gestion Financière (AFG) & Bernard DESCREUX, Chief Investment Officer, La Banque Postale Asset Management   (Salon Monge)
   
12h30 / 14h00  Lunch  (Salon Jussieu)
   
14h00 / 15h00  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: : Risk I   (Salon Panthéon)
   - Insider Trading during the Technology Bubble (Semih TARTAROGLU, Texas University)
- The Effects of National Allocation Plans on Carbon Markets (Maria MANSANET-BATALLER, University of Valencia)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: International Finance   (Salon Pontoise)
   - Market Size Effects and Integration: Emerging vs. Developed Countries (Crina PUNGULESCU, Tilburg University)
- Implied Cost of Capital Based Investment Strategies - Evidence From International Stock Markets (David SCHRÖDER, Bonn School of Economics)
   
   Special Session: CLIMPACT (Climate Risk Management) Presentation by Harilao LOUKOS, Chief Executive Officer, CLIMPACT   (Salon Monge)
   
15h00 / 16h00  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Forecasting   (Salon Panthéon)
   - Learning to Forecast the Exchange Rate: Two Competing Approaches(Agnieszka MARKIEWICZ, University of Leuven)
- Exchange Rate Forecasting, Order Flow and Macroeconomic Information(Elvira SOJLI, Warwick Business School)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: Risk II   (Salon Pontoise)
   - Irregularly Spaced Intraday Value-at-Risk Model (Sessi TOKPAVI, University of Orléans)
- Bayesian Framework for Explaining the Rate Spread on Corporate Bonds (Oussama CHAKROUN, HEC - Montréal)
   
   Companies presentation   (Salon Monge)
   
16h00 / 16h15  Break  
   
16h15 / 17h15  Parallel sessions
   
   Papers presentation - Session 1: Corporate Finance II   (Salon Panthéon)
   - Corporate Investmentand Analyst Pressure (Sébastien MICHENAUD, HEC - Paris)
- When Loans are Bad News: Market Reaction to Loan Announcements under Poor Governance (Weihua HUANG, Maastricht University)
   
   Papers presentation - Session 2: Mathematical Finance II   (Salon Pontoise)
   - Time-deformation and the Yield Curve (Wing Wah THAM, Warwick Business School)
- Dependence Modelling of Joint Extremes via Copulas: A Dynamic Portfolio Allocation Perspective (Denitsa STEFANOVA, HEC - Montréal)
   
   Special Session: "Finance Research and Job Opportunities at Aston Business School" by Jim STEELEY, Professor of Finance, Aston University   (Salon Monge)
   
   
17h15 / 17h30  Closing Address by Georges GALLAIS-HAMONNO, Chairman, Association Française de FInance (AFFI)   (Salon Monge)
 





(c) Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF)