5th AP2-CFF Conference December 10, 2018

Konferensen hölls helt på engelska, temat var om och hur man i finanssektorn kan få användning av finansiell forskning i praktiken.

Many financial institutions base part of their operations on results produced by researchers in finance. Recently, the robustness and interpretation of some of these results has been questioned and it is unclear whether they will hold up in the future. The reasons being e.g. so called p-hacking and issues related to the interpretation of statistical significance.

The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners to facilitate the discussion and development of ideas related to how and to what extent the finance industry can rely on financial research for their operations.

The key-note speeches will be delivered by
Amit Goyal, University of Lausanne and
Lu Zhang, Ohio State University