Frontiers of Finance 2018

Name: Frontiers of Finance 2018
Start: Monday 21 May 2018, 08:30 - 18:00 BST
Location: East lecture theatre, The Shard,London,SE1 9SG,UK

The Finance Group at Warwick Business School invites the submission of papers for presentation at the Frontiers of Finance 2018 Conference at The Shard in London. The conference is designed to bring together leading researchers in all areas of Asset Pricing in a stimulating research environment. The programme will consist of keynote speeches, paper presentations with discussants, and a poster session. Submissions should be sent no later than 15 March 2018. Authors of selected papers will be notified by the end of March.

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Ravi Bansal, J.B. Fuqua Professor of Finance and Economics at Duke University and Research Associate at the NBER. He is a leader in the fields finance and macroeconomics and has published extensively in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. His research provides new insights about the connections between economic growth and uncertainty to bond, equity, and currency markets. His pioneering work on identifying risks in capital markets, specifically long-run risks, is cited and discussed in the scientific background article for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics. Many of his PhD students have placed at leading academic institutions, central banks, and investment banks.

In addition to Duke University, he has taught at Wharton School of Business, Stanford University, and the Indian School of Business. He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and prior to his doctorate, he studied at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, and St. Xavier’s School (Delhi).