2017-2018

Centre for Finance and Investment

School of Social Sciences

Heriot-Watt University

CFI Research Seminar Series 2017/18

All seminars will be in MB1.62 at 1.15pm (unless stated otherwise)


Semester 1
Monday 25^th September 2017	Arman Eshraghi (University of Edinburgh), “The Disposition Effect in Social Trading: Influence of Transparency on Investment Decisions”
Monday 9^th October 2017	Yuan Zhao (Aberdeen University), “Controlling for false discoveries on sector fund performance”
Friday 20^th October 2017 at 3.15pm	SEEC/CFI Seminar Sanjay Banerji (University of Nottingham), "Debt Equity Swap and Restructuring of Sovereign Debt under Incentives and Austerities"
Monday 6^th November 2017	SEEC/CFI Seminar Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde), “Composite Likelihood Methods for Large Bayesian VARs with Stochastic Volatility”
Monday 20^th November 2017	Andy Adams (Heriot-Watt University), "The Democratization of Heart of Midlothian Football Club: A critique of the new governance structure"
Friday 8^th December 2017 at 3.15pm	SEEC/CFI seminar Ian Marsh (CASS Business School, University of London), TBC

Semester 2
Monday 22^nd January 2018	Kim Cuong Ly (Swansea University), "Do banks adjust their liquidity to cope with environmental variation? A study of bank deregulation".
Monday 12^th February 2018	Dylan Thomas (QMUL), “Fund Mortality and Fair Discounts on Closed-End Funds”
Monday 26^th February 2018	Ben Sila (University of Edinburgh), “Litigation risk and firm information environment”.
Monday 5^th March 2018	Patrick McColgan (University of Strathclyde), TBC
Monday 19^th March 2018	Ben Sila (University of Edinburgh), “Litigation risk and firm information environment”.