Organisation: Department of Finance

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    Second Academia Meets Industry seminar tackles sustainable finance

    For the second edition of the Academia Meets Industry seminar series, the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance partnered with EY Luxembourg for a half-day hybrid conference on the topic of sustainable finance. This event was organised in the framework of the Sustainable Finance Chair, which is supported by the…

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    Advanzia Bank awards fellowship to MSc Finance and Economics student

    Advanzia Bank, a Luxembourg-based digital bank founded in 2005 providing credit cards and payment solutions to individuals, businesses and financial institutions, has partnered with the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance to award one deserving and promising student within the MSc in Finance and Economics with a fellowship for the duration of their studies.

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    Prof. Roman Kräussl explores gender and pricing bias in the art market

    Department of Finance professor within the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and Alternative Investments specialist, Roman Kräussl, has co-authored the paper “Gendered Prices” accepted for publication in the top journal The Review of Financial Studies in 2021. This review, published by Oxford University Press, is one of the 50 journals used by the Financial…

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    Doctoral student Bilal Kchouri asks: Can blockchain boost sukuk?

    Bilal Kchouri, doctoral researcher in the Department of Finance, has recently published an article entitled “Tokenization of Sukuk: Ethereum Case Study” in the Global Finance Journal. The article was cowritten with researchers from the SnT research group SEDAN (Services and Data Management).

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    Post-doc Laszlo Sandor contributes to CEPR eBook

    Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Finance, Laszlo Sandor has contributed an essay to a new eBook, titled ‘Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics’, published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research Press. 

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    Academia meets industry for a discussion on the Housing Market

    On 9 March 2020, the University of Luxembourg’s Department of Finance came together with EY Luxembourg and the ABBL (Luxembourg Bankers Association) to host a panel discussion on macroprudential policy and its potential effects on the real estate market.

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    Roman Kräussl publishes Art-Finance research in Management Science

    Dr. Roman Kräussl, Professor of Finance at the University of Luxembourg and Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has co-authored a paper with Amy Whitaker, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Administration at New York University.

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    LSF Professor moderates infrastructure panel at 2019 AIIB Meeting

    Prof. Roman Kräussl from the Luxembourg School of Finance (LSF) moderated in mid-July a panel discussion on “Debt Sustainability and Macroeconomic Issues in Infrastructure” as part of the 2019 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Annual Meeting (AIIB) hosted in Luxembourg.

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    New master programmes in finance

    Over the last academic year, the master’s programmes offered by the Luxembourg School of Finance (LSF) have been substantially reformed with the aim of increasing the number of easily employable graduates and adapting the study contents to the current needs of the Luxembourg financial industry.

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    Investing in infrastructure as an asset class

    Professor Roman Kräussl from the Luxembourg School of Finance travelled to the United States in May 2019 to present his latest research on the risk and return characteristics of infrastructure investments.

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