Centre for Finance and Investment
School of Management and Languages
Heriot-Watt University
CFI Research Seminar Series 2018/19
All seminars will be in MB162 at 1.15pm (unless stated otherwise)
Semester 1
| Monday 15th October 2018 | Marc Groenwald, (Aberdeen University), “How to Measure Financial Market Efficiency? A Multifractality-Based Quantitative Approach with an Application to the European Carbon Market” |
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http://www.cesifo-group.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp7102.pdf
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| Monday 29th October 2018 |
Panayiotis Andreou, (Durham University), “The effect of institutional ownership on firms thrust to compete”
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| Monday 5th November 2018 in MBG33 |
Antonios Siganos (University of Glasgow), “A sleep disturbance proxy based on Google search activity, and stock market returns” |
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Monday 26th November 2018 at 2.15pm
Monday 3rd December 2018 |
Man Dang (The University of Danang), “Media coverage and stock return synchronicity”
Seth Armitage (University of Edinburgh), Working Title -“Are pension contributions a threat to shareholder payouts?” |
| Semester 2 | |
| Monday 28th January 2019 |
Giovanni Calice, (University of Loughborough), Working Title - “The Term Structure of Sovereign CDS and the Cross-Section of Exchange Rate Predictability”
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| Monday 11th February 2019 |
Marcel Lukas (Heriot-Watt University), Working Title - “The Influence of Budgeting on Spending: Evidence from the UK’s largest financial aggregation app.”
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| Monday 4th March 2019 |
Patrick McColgan (University of Strathclyde), “Synergy and managerial control threats as determinants of employee layoffs”
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| Monday 18th March 2019 | Tim King (University of Kent), Working Title - “Is experience relevant in banking? Evidence from the U.S. financial sector” |