Young Finance Scholars Conference

Conference schedule 2014

 

Thursday, 8th May 2014

Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, BN1 9SL

09:00 Registration, Jubilee Building (ground floor)
09:15 Welcome Address
Morning Econometrics
Room: Jubilee G35
Financial Economics
Room: Jubilee G36
Banking
Room: Jubilee 143
Corporate Finance
Room: Jubilee 118
Session Chairs Mike Lipkin & Norman Seeger Sjur Westgaard & Mike Osborne Claudia Girardone & Emmanuel Mamatzakis Brian Lucey & Taufiq Chaudhry
09:30 - 10:00 Chardin Wese Simen  
What Makes the S&P 500 Jump?
Qiyu Zhang
Financial integration and the information environment: evidence from emerging markets
Mohammad Tajik
Capital Infusions and Stability of Recipient Banks
Indrajeet Mohite
Acquiring the Acquirer - The Role of Target's Acquisition Experience in M&A
10:00 - 10:30 Hanyu Zhang  
Modelling Intraday volatility in European bond market
Maurizio Montone
Does the U.S. President Affect the Stock Market?
Orkun Saka
ECB Policy and Multiple-Equilibria in the Eurozone: Was De Grauwe Right?
Chunling Xia
Financially constrained firms offer themselves for sale
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee
Session Chairs Mike Lipkin & Norman Seeger Richard Tol & Mike Osborne Claudia Girardone & Emmanuel Mamatzakis Brian Lucey & Taufiq Chaudhry
11:00 - 11:30 Anandadeep Mandal 
What Drives Asymmetric Dependence Structure of Asset Return Comovements?
Manthos Delis
Income Elasticity of Loan Demand
Emanuele Brancati
The Real Side of the Financial Crisis: Bank Vulnerability, Flight to Quality, and Firm Investment Rate
Betty Wu
Founding Family CEO Pay Incentives and Investment Policy
11:30- 12:00 Ming-Tsung Lin
Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risks of Changes in CDS Spreads
Michael Ellington
The Time-Varying Relationship between Financial Wealth, Divisia Money & UK Inflation
Jingjing Sun
Policy recommendations on the design of the methodologies of systemic risk detection and regulatory requirements on capital holdings
Josephine YAU
Do CEO Personal Traits, Skills and Experiences Trigger the Managerial Overconfidence Behaviour?
12:00 - 12:30 Ruolan Ouyang 
Salmon Futures and the Fish Pool Market: The relevance of the Schwartz 97 two-factor model for Fish Farming
Sarosh Shabi
Stock Market Volatility, Business Cycles and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Linear and Non-Linear Causality Tests
Linh Nguyen
Systematic Extreme Downside Risk
Vathunyoo Sila
Women on Board: Does boardroom gender diversity really affect firm risk?
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch, Networking and Poster (Jubilee Foyer)
Afternoon Econometrics
Room: Jubilee G35
Investments & Decisions
Room: Jubilee G36
Quant Finance
Room: Jubilee 144
Corporate Finance
Room: Jubilee 118
Session Chairs Sjur Westgaard & Mike Lipkin Jacques Pezier & Ali Abbas Ben Hambly & Carol Alexander Ephraim Clark & Mike Osborne
14:00 - 14:30 Keren Dong 
Tracking VWAP with a bi-directional trading strategy
Ruanmin Cao
On Investment Pessimism
Gechun Liang
Funding Liquidity, Debt Tenor Structure, and Creditor's Belief: An Exogenous Dynamic Debt Run Model
Raffaele UG-Corvino
Market value of Leverage: quantitative estimation and economic applications
14:30 - 15:00 Houra Haghpanahan 
New Approach of Currency Crashes Definition in Early Warning System
Narges Hajimoladarvish
Alternatives for Reduction of Compound Lotteries
Ilaria Piatti
Heterogeneous Beliefs about Rare Event Risk in the Lucas Orchard
Abdullah Al-Ghazali
Dividend Policy Overconfidence and  Moral Hazard
15:00 - 15:30 Habiba Al-Mughairi 
Re-examining the role of oil price shocks in the GCC stock markets: new evidence from asymmetric DCC-GARCH model
Tomás Ó Briain
Learning behaviour of individual investors: Evidence from a  financial betting market
Gareth Haslip
A Novel Fourier Transform B-spline Method for Option Pricing
Piotr Jan Danisewicz
Does Assigning Priority to Deposits Affect Bank Conduct? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Round Table Discussions
Topics: TBC
17:00 - 18:00 Panel: Optimizing your Journal Publication Strategy
Carol Alexander, Ben Hambly, Brian Lucey and Richard Tol
18:30 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at Stanmer House