2012 års Vinnova-konferens arrangerad av Centrum för finans

Konferens

Välkommen till 2012 års Vinnova-konferens arrangerad av Centrum för finans (CFF). Under dagen kommer följande områden att behandlas: Banking, Behavioral Finance, Market Ideas-Financing Innovations och Household Finance. Konferensspråk: engelska.

Förutom ett antal CFF-forskare medverkar även Clas Wihlborg-Chapman University, John Thornton-Bangor University; Scott Kieff-George Washington Law School och Stanford University's Hoover Institution samt Paolo Sodini-Handelshögskolan i Stockholm.

Anmälan via denna länk: http://www.cs.handels.gu.se/Portal/Public/Event/ApplyNoFrame.aspx?EventID=432


Program: se nedan.

Preliminary programme

8.15 - 9.30
Session 1: Banking
Chair: Ted Lindblom

- Clas Wihlborg: Chapman University
"Implicit Guarantees, Governance and Banks' Risk-Taking through the Crisis"

- Alexander Herbertsson: Centre for Finance
"Counterparty Credit Risk for CDS Portfolios in a Contagion Model"

-John Thornton: Bangor University
"Do Institutional Shareholders Affect Bank Risk?"

Coffee Break

10.00 - 11.15
Session 2: Behavioral Finance
Chair: Tommy Gärling

- Oege Dijk: Centre for Finance
"Warm Glow, Incentives, and Performance"

- Tommy Gärling: Centre for Finance and Dep. of Psychology GU
"Near-sighted versus Far-sighted Portfolio Construction"

- Michael Kirchler: Centre for Finance and University of Innsbruck
"Waiting for the Greater Fool - Trader Inflow and Heterogeneous. Information in Experimental Asset Markets"

Lunch

12.45 - 14.00
Session 3: Market for Ideas - Financing Innovations
Chair: Tamir Agmon

- Scott Kieff: George Washington Law School and Stanford University's Hoover Institution
"Saving the Golden Goose -- How Today's Crisis in the U.S. Patent System Was Invented and How it Can Be Fixed"

- Shubhashis Gangopadhyay: Centre for Finance, India Development Foundation, and Shiv Nadar University
"The Roles of Venture Capital Funds and Patent Holding Trusts in Promoting Innovation in the Market for Ideas"

- Einar Bakke: Centre for Finance
"The Recipe, The Chef, His Financiers & Society At-Large -- on the relationship between financing, contractibility & tangibility and the effects on society at-large"

Coffee break

14.30 - 15.45
Session 4: Household Finance
Chair: Evert Carlsson

- Evert Carlsson: Centre for Finance
"Swedish Households' Portfolios and the Pension System"

- Paolo Sodini: Stockholm School of Economics
"Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios"