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POSTER SESSIONS

SESSION 1- Friday 16 December

 

 

NAME
AFFILIATION
PAPER TO BE PRESENTED
Deniz Dilan Karaman
Humbolt University
"Comparison of Panel Cointegration Tests"
Marcelo Fernandes
Joint work with Marco Aur´elio dos Santos Rocha
Queen Mary University of London
"Are price limits on futures markets that cool?
Evidence from the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange"

Tae-Hwy Lee
Burak Saltoðlu

Joint work with Yong Bao

University of California Riverside, Marmara University
"Comparing Density Forecast Models"
Matthias R. Fengler
Joint work with Wolfgang K. Härdle, Enno Mammen
CASE
"A Dynamic Semiparametric Factor Model for
Implied Volatility Surface Dynamics"
Ralf Brüggemann
Joint work with Wolfgang Härdle, Julius Mungo,
Carsten Trenkler
Humbolt University
"VAR Modeling of Factor Loading Series from a
Dynamic Semiparametric Model for Implied Volatility String Dynamics"
Dick van Dijk
Joint work with Haris Munandar, Christian M. Hafner
Erasmus University Roterdam
"The Euro Introduction and Non-Euro Currencies"

Iulian Nastac
Joint work with Elena Pelinescu, Emilian Dobrescu

Romanian Center For Economic Policies
"Exchange Rate Forecasting Using An Adaptive Neural Technique"
Chokri Slim
"A genetic Neural Network approach applied to
Forecast the volatility of financial time series"
Mark J. Jensen
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
"A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Fractionally Integrated, Autoregressive, Moving Average, Stochastic Volatility"
Mustafa Pýnar
Aslýhan Salih
Bilkent University, Bilkent University
"Gains and Losses for Pricing and Hedging of Contingent Claims by Stochastic Programming"
Karl Erlandzon
Joint work with Evert Carlsson
Göteborg University
"The Dark Side of Wage Indexed Pensions"
Ola Simonsen
Umea University
"An Empirical Model for Durations in Stocks"
Noud P.A. van Giersbergen
University of Amsterdam
"Bartlett Correction in the Stable AR(1) Model
with Intercept and Trend"

Christian Bontemps
Joint work with Nour Meddahi

Montreal University, University of Toulouse
"Testing Distributional Assumptions: A GMM Approach"
Shahiduzzaman Quoreshi
Umea University
"Bivariate Time Series Modelling of Financial Count Data"
Szabolcs Blazsek
Joint work with Thierry Kamionka
CREST and Carlos III University Madrid
"Liquidity and Volatility of the Electricity Market: A Multivariate Latent-Factor Intensity Model"

SESSION 2-Saturday 17 December

NAME
AFFILIATION
PAPER TO BE PRESENTED
Marcelo Takami
Joint work with Benjamin M.Tabak
Universidade de Sao Paolo
"Can we predict interest rate volatility? The Case of Brazil"
Niklas Ahlgren
Joint work with Jan Antell
Swedish School of Economics
"Bootstrap Tests of Cointegration Rank with
Financial Time Series (For Poster Sessions Only)"
Tae-Hwy Lee
Joint work with Huiyu Huang
University of California Riverside
"To Combine Forecasts or to Combine Information?"
Kamil Yilmaz
Joint work with Francis X. Diebold
Koç University
"Volatility Contagion"
Pilar Soriano
Joint work with Francisco J. Climent
University of Valencia
"Region versus Industry Effects: volatility transmission"
Jens Perch Nielsen
Joint work with Carsten Tanggaard
M.C. Jones
University of Copenhagen
"Local Linear Density Estimation for Filtered Survival Data, With Bias Correction"
L. Barras
Joint work with O. Scaillet, R. Wermers
Geneva University-HEC
"False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance:
Measuring the Role of Lucky Alphas"
Oliver Blaskowitz
Joint work with Helmut Herwartz
Humbolt University
"Modeling the FIBOR/EURIBOR Swap Term Structure:
An Empirical Approach"
João Leitão
Joint work with Cristóvão Oliveira
Universidade de Beira Interior
"The Contagion Effect of the Terrorist Attacks of the 11th of September"
Emmanuel Jurczenko,
Bertrand Maillet

Joint work with Paul Merlin
ESCP-EAP & ABN-AMRO,Université Paris 1 & ABN-AMRO
"Hedge Funds Portfolio Selection with Higher-order Moments: A Non-parametric Mean-Variance-Skewness Kurtosis Efficient Frontier"
Paraschos A. Maniatis
Joint work with Thomas A. Anastassiou
Athens University of Economics and Business
"THE ROLE OF RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE GREEK INSURANCE INDUSTRY"
Bertrand Maillet
Thierry Michel
Université Paris 1 & ABN-AMRO, Autorité des Marchés Financiers
"Extreme Distribution of Realized
and Range-based Risk Measures"
Nikolas Topaloglou
Joint work with Hercules Vladimirou, Stavros A. Zenio
Universirty of Geneva-HEC
"Risk Management for International Investment Portfolios Using Forward Contracts and Options"
Michael Flad
Joint work with Robert C. Jung
Goethe University
"A common factor analysis for the US and the
German stock markets during overlapping trading hours"
Practitioner's Corner - Presentation By AKBANK Risk Management Group