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    Nomination de trois profs de la FDEF au comité de pilotage ministériel

    La faculté de Droit, d’Économie et de Finance (FDEF) de l’Université du Luxembourg a l’honneur de faire part de la nomination des professeurs Katalin Ligeti (doyenne de la FDEF), David Hiez et Séverine Menétrey au comité institué auprès du ministre de la Justice par l’arrêté grand-ducal du 15 juillet 2022 portant institution du comité de…

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    Prof. Roman Kräussl’s annual analysis of the global art market

    Each year, FDEF Finance Professor Roman Kräussl, authors the Manager Magazin’s Kunstindex about the current year’s art market trends, listing and analysing the 50 most popular artists worldwide based on the sale price of their artwork at auctions. According to Prof. Kräussl, 2021 was a year of recovery for the art market.

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    Julien Pénasse receives Best Paper Award at Vienna Symposium

    Associate Professor within the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg, Julien Pénasse, received the Best Paper award at the Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets 2022 for the paper “International Capital Markets and Wealth Transfers.”

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    Working Yet Poor Project Publishes Research in New Book

    Luca Ratti, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg and Chairholder of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Labour Law, edited the recently released Wolters Kluwer volume.

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    Best Asset Pricing Paper Awarded to Laurent Barras

    Laurent Barras, Professor within the Department of Finance at the University of Luxembourg, received the best asset pricing paper award for his work “Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance when Models are Misspecified,” co-authored with David Ardia, Patrick Gargliardini and Olivier Scaillet. The prize was awarded during the 38th International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI)…

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    FDEF Summer Cocktail Get Together 2022

    On 7 July, the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance hosted the FDEF Summer Cocktail Get Together for staff members and partners at the Weicker Building (Kirchberg Campus). This was the first get together after two years of restrictions due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

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    Congratulations to the 2022 Pierre Werner Scholarship winners!

    We are pleased to announce that 4 Doctoral researchers from both the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and from the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences will receive the 2022 Pierre Werner Scholarship.This scholarship is made available by the Fondation Pierre Werner, under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg.

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    Ferrero and FDEF renew partnership for 2 more years

    After five years of successful collaboration, Ferrero Luxembourg will continue to offer a fellowship opportunity to up to five Master’s students from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance. Ferrero supports high-potential students both financially and professionally with an instalment-based scholarship and the opportunity to complete a paid internship at the end of their Master’s…

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    Congratulations do Dr. Vladimir Levin

    On July 6th, Vladimir Levin successfully defended his thesis “Essays in Market Microstructure and Financial Markets Stability”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr.  Roman KRÄUSSL and has been granted the title of Doctor. The DSEFM congratulates him on his work and wishes him a successful career. 

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    Prof. Happold appointed to European Commission’s pool of arbitrators

    In December 2020, the European Commission called for applications in connection with the renewal of the pool of arbitrators and the separate pool of trade and sustainable development experts for dispute settlement panels under trade agreements to which the European Union is a party.

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