Archives for LFIN
November 20, 2018
Finance Seminar
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University
Joint with OR and Econometrics Seminars
Supply Chain Disruptions:
Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University
Exploiting the exogenous and regional nature of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, this paper provides a systematic...
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November 19, 2018
Finance Seminar
Andrea Vedolin, Boston University
Central Bank Communication and the Yield Curve
Andrea Vedolin, Boston University
Using the institutional features of ECB monetary policy announcements, we provide evidence for the risk premium channel of central bank communication. While central bank communication had a...
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From 05 to 06/11/2018
Conférence
12th MIFN Workshop with Carlo Favero (Bocconi)
Practical Information
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Registration is mandatory and should be done by filling out this online form. Please remember that in order for it to be valid, you need to pay the participation fees (if applicable).
Participation Fees
Regular participant: €200
UCLouvain: free...
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Finance Seminar
Kay Giesecke, Stanford University
Towards Explainable AI: Significance and tests for Neural Networks
Kay Giesecke, Stanford University
Neural networks underpin many of the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems, including speech recognizers on smartphones of Google's latest automatic translator. The...
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October 19, 2018
Finance Seminar
Thomas Lambert, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus...
Winning Connections? Special Interests and the Sale of Failed Banks
Thomas Lambert, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We show that bidding banks that lobby...
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