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2019

Statistical Machine Learning for Financial Prediction and Inference
Prof. FAN Jianqing
Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics and of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University; IAS Senior Visiting Fellow
Date: 28 Mar 2019 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
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2018

Understanding Cryptocurrencies
Prof Wolfgang K. Härdle
Professor of Statistics, Humboldt University of Berlin
Date: 19 Oct 2018 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nonparametric Option-implied Volatility
Prof Viktor Todorov
Harold H Hines Jr Professor of Risk Management and Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
Date: 8 Feb 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
The Pricing of Tail Risk and the Equity Premium: Evidence from International Option Markets
Prof Torben Andersen
Nathan S and Mary P Sharp Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
Date: 8 Feb 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
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2017

Risk Preferences and the Macro Announcement Premium
Prof Hengjie Ai
Associate Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota
Date: 20 Nov 2017 (Monday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Venue: IAS1038, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Consistent Advice to Financial Advisors: Dynamic Mean-Variance Portfolio Choice
Prof Min Dai
Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Date: 8 Nov 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Stock Market Spoofing
Prof Jussi Keppo
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Date: 20 Apr 2017 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Venue: IAS1038, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
TENAR - Tail Event Driven Network AutoRegression of SIFIs
Prof Wolfgang Härdle
Professor of Statistics, Humboldt University of Berlin
Date: 3 Mar 2017 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, HKUST
AI for FinTech: Machine Learning in Finance
Mr Gary Kazantsev
Head of the Machine Learning Group, Bloomberg
Date: 16 Nov 2016 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Remarks:
 
1) This event is co-sponsored by HKUST Human Language Technology Center.
2) This event is part of IAS / School of Engineering Seminar Series in Artificial Intelligence.  
Term Structure of Asset Risk Premia Correlations
Prof Kian-Guan Lim
OUB Professorial Chair and Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University
Date: 30 Sep 2016 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Venue:
 
Room 1504 (1/F near Lifts 25-26), HKUST
 
Inference on Risk Prices without a Fully Specified Factor Model
Prof Dacheng Xiu
Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
Date: 20 Sep 2016 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Venue:
 
IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
 
High Frequency Market Making
Prof Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University
Date: 27 Jul 2016 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Venue:
 
Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater (LT-E), HKUST
 
IAS Quantitative Finance and Fintech Mini Workshop
Date: 23 Jun 2016 (Thu)
Time: 1:30 - 6:00 pm
Venue:
 
Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater (LT-E), HKUST
 
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of Future Financial Markets
Prof Robert I. Webb
Paul Tudor Jones II Research Professor of McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia
Date: 8 May 2015 (Friday)
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Venue:
 
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
 
Predicting the VIX and the Volatility Risk Premium: What’s Credit and Commodity Volatility Risk Got to Do with It?
Prof Eric Ghysels
Bernstein Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: 10 Nov 2014 (Monday)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Venue:
 
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
 
EXcess Idle Time
Prof Federico M. Bandi
Professor of Economics and Finance, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Date: 16 Oct 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Venue:
 
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
 
Evaluation of Performance Measures for Probability of Default and Related Credit Risk Assessment Models
Dr William Morokoff
Managing Director of Quantitative Analytics and Research Group, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
Date: 1 Aug 2014 (Friday)
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Venue:
 
IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
 
Using Stocks or Portfolios in Tests of Factor Models
Prof Jun Liu
University of California at San Diego
Date: 15 Apr 2013 (Monday)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 pm
Venue: Room 4219 (4/F via Lifts 19), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Finance, HKUST
 
The Economics of Restructured Debt
Prof Sanjiv Das
Santa Clara University
Date: 26 Mar 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Room 5620 (5/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Finance, HKUST
 
Feedback Trading between Fundamental Information and Non-fundamental Information
Prof Hui Ou-Yang
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Date: 4 Feb 2013 (Monday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Room 6568 (6/F via Lifts 27-28), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Finance, HKUST
 
In Search of a Statistically Valid Volatility Risk Factor
Prof Robert Anderson
University of California at Berkeley
Date: 17 Jan 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Room 2406 (2/F via Lifts 17-18), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Economics and Department of Finance, HKUST
 
Black-Litterman Asset Allocation and Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization when Means and Covariances are Unknown
Prof Tze Leung Lai
Stanford University
Date: 20 Dec 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management and Department of Mathematics, HKUST
 
Cream Skimming in Financial Markets
Prof José Scheinkman
Princeton University
Date: 18 Dec 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Room 4619 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Economics and Department of Finance, HKUST
 
Capturing Option Anomalies with a Variance-Dependent Pricing Kernel
Prof Peter Christoffersen
University of Toronto
Date: 13 Dec 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST
Remarks:
 
This event was co-organized by Department of Finance and Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, HKUST
 
Arrow-Debreu Equilibria for Rank-Dependent Utilities
Prof Xunyu Zhou
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Oxford
Date: 5 Nov 2012 (Monday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 pm
Venue: Room 2404 (2/F via Lifts 17-18), HKUST
   

 



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