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    Congratulations to Dr. Niccolo Gentile

    On September 23rd, Niccolo Gentile defended his thesis “Essays on the Economics of Wellbeing and Machine Learning”, under the supervision of Prof. Conchita D’Ambrosio, and has been granted the title of Doctor. 

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    Prof. Hussinger publishes teaching case studying Luxembourg firm

    Katrin Hussinger, Full Professor in Strategy and Organisation within the Department of Economics and Management at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance has recently published a teaching case about the Luxembourgish language service firm, FaustTranslations, which has recently changed its name to „DIE ÜBERSETZUNGSAGENTUR“.The case was co-written with João N. Carvalho who is a…

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    LCL Professor Joachim Arts wins ISIR Service Award

    The FDEF congratulates Professor Joachim Arts on his recent International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) Service Award for his contributions to the operation of the Society, especially the organisation of the 2021 ISIR Summer School. He received the award during the 21st International Symposium on Inventory Research which was held in Budapest in August 2022.

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    FDEF Congratulate Georges Ravarani, elected as ECHR Vice-President

    Judge Georges Ravarani, who has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 2015 and President of Section since 13 September 2021, was elected to the office of Vice-President of the Court on 19 September 2022. He will take up his duties on 1 November 2022.

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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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