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    PKF to offer fellowships and internships to FDEF students

    PKF Audit & Conseil (PKF), the Luxembourg-based audit firm and the University of Luxembourg have signed an agreement to provide fellowship and internship opportunities to students enrolled in the Master in Accounting and Audit, offered at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF). PKF Audit & Conseil is a member of the PKF International…

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    Students recognised at Moot Court Ceremony

    On 31 May 2022, the Department of Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) in partnership with Clifford Chance held an award ceremony to celebrate the Uni.lu Moot Court teams’ contributions during the 2021–2022 academic year.

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    How stock market inefficiencies can affect the real economy

    Corporate managers’ investment behaviour is affected by waves of investor optimism and pessimism. Hence, the performance of an investment factor can be predicted. A dynamic trading strategy that is based on signals from past flows between bond and equity mutual funds and the investment factor generates a significant annual alpha of 7%.

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    Delegation travels to Bucharest to celebrate and discuss partnership

    Representatives from FDEF, including Dean Katalin Ligeti, Professor Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor Elise Poillot and Associate Professor Thomas Mastrullo travelled to Romania on 23 and 24 June 2022 to join the 25th anniversary of the Collège juridique franco-roumain d’études européennes, a partnership between the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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    Dr. Teresa Quintel becomes first Jacqueline NOEL scholarship laureate

    Dr. Teresa Quintel, who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Managing migration by processing personal data within the adequate data protection instrument” at the Doctoral School of Law in 2021 within the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) is the University’s first PhD graduate to be awarded the Jacqueline NOEL scholarship.

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    Congratulations to Dr. Victoria Maleeva – June 2022

    On June 13th, PhD Victoria Maleeva has successfully defended her thesis “ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF MIGRATION, INEQUALITIES, AND CULTURE” (under the supervision of Prof. Dr.  Skerdilajda Zanaj) and has been granted the title of Doctor. Her excellent work also qualified her thesis for the “Best Thesis Award” 2021/2022.We warmly congratulate her for the great work she…

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    Job Opportunities for PhD candidates in Finance

    The Department of Finance at the University of Luxembourg is looking for 5 Doctoral candidates to conduct research in the fields of Economics, General economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Microeconomics, Macroenomics, International Economics or Financial Economics.

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    Prof. Cole participates at Charles Clark Memorial Lecture on IP Law

    This year Media Law Professor Mark D. Cole from the University of Luxembourg was selected to give the annual Charles Clark Memorial Lecture, which is the closing event at the London Book Fair. Previous speakers at this event commemorating one of the most influential copyright lawyers of the UK included EU Commissioners, WIPO Director General…

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    Uni.lu Profs lend expertise to documentary film on 2008 banking crisis

    In September 2008, a shock wave rippled through Luxembourg in the form of a global financial crises. On 18 May 2022, Rishon Films released a 71-minute long documentary film “CRISE ET CHUCHOTMENTS” capturing one of Luxembourg’s darked hours in the financial sector.

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    Congratulations to Dr. Alessio Monetti

    On June 1st 2022, PHD Alessio Monetti has successfully defended his thesis “Applying matching models with imperfect transferable utility to diverse markets” (under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Arnaud Dupuy) and has been granted the title of Doctor. His excellent work has also qualified his thesis for the “Best Thesis Award” 2021/2022.We congratulate him for the great work…

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