The Finance Group is pleased to announce the Frontiers of Finance 2018 Conference taking place at the WBS Campus at The Shard, London on Monday 21 May 2018. The conference is designed to bring together leading researchers in all areas of Asset Pricing in a stimulating research environment.

The programme will consist of a keynote speech, paper presentations with discussants, and a poster session.

Keynote Speaker
Ravi Bansal
Ravi Bansal is J.B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Professor of Economics at Duke University, and research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research-articles in the fields of macro-finance and the economics of climate-change are published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies. Professor Bansal’s pioneering research developing the long-run risks model for capital markets received the Smith Breeden distinguished paper award and is acknowledged in the scientific background article for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.