In May 2014, the Finance group at the University of Sussex held its first Young Finance Scholars' Conference that was specially designed for junior scholars in Finance and a Quantitative Finance Workshop. Both events were hosted by the Department of Business and Management in the School of Business, Management and Economics.
The conference provided an opportunity for junior scholars with little (or no) experience with publishing in academic journals to share their research, debate their methodology and results, network with their peers from other institutions and – primarily – to receive expert comment and advice on publication from leading finance academics, including:
- Professor Carol Alexander – University of Sussex
- Professor Ben Hambly – University of Oxford
- Professor Mike Lipkin – Columbia University, New York
- Professor Brian Lucey – Trinity College, Dublin
- Professor Richard Tol – University of Sussex
- Dr. Norman Seeger – VU University, Amsterdam
- Professor Ali Abbas – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Professor Taufiq Choudhry – University of Southampton
- Professor Ephraim Clark – Middlesex University London
- Professor Claudia Girardone - University of Essex
- Professor Emmanuel Mamatzakis - University of Sussex
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Professor Sjur Westgaard – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The event was supported by the Doctoral School's Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) Fund: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/doctoralschool/internal/funding/rli