Conferences
2011 CONFERENCE ON CURRENT TOPICS IN Financial REGULATIOn
The conference will be held June 1st and 2nd at the Conference Center at McKenna Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The conference will include numerous academic papers. Speakers from industry and the regulatory agencies include Andrei Kirilenko, Chief Economist for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Bill O’Brien, the CEO of DirectEdge, Jamie Selway from ITG, Adam Nunes from Hudson River Trading, Amy Edwards from the SEC, and Scott Patterson, author of “The Quants.”
2011 Conference Papers:
- Diving Into Dark Pools by Sabrina Buti, Barbara Rindi, Ingrid M. Werner
- Low-Latency Trading by Joel Hasbrouck and Gideon Saar
- Flow Toxicity and Volatility in a High Frequency World by David Easley, Marcos M. López de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
- Skin in the Game versus Skimming the Game: Governance, Share Restrictions, and Insider Flows by Gideon Ozik and Ronnie Sadka
- Opacity, Credit Rating Shopping and Bias by Francesco Sangiorgiy and Chester Spatt
- Do Rating Agencies Cater? Evidence from Rating-Based Contracts by Pepa Kraft
- The Flash Crash: The Impact of High Frequency Trading on an Electronic Market by Andrei Kirilenko, Mehrdad Samadi, Albert S. Kyle and Tugkan Tuzun
- Caught in the Act: How Hedge Funds Manipulate their Equity Positions by Gjergji Cici, Alexander Kempf, and Alexander Puetz
- Uncovering Hedge Fund Skill from the Portfolio Holdings They Hide by Vikas Agarwal, Wei Jiang, Yuehua Tang and Baozhong Yang
2010 CONFERENCE ON CURRENT TOPICS IN MARKET REGULATIOn
The conference will be held May 20th and 21st in Chicago. Speakers include former SEC Chief Economists Larry Harris and Chester Spatt, and Raghuram Rajan, former Director of Research at the IMF and author of the book (with Luigi Zingales) “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.”
2009 Conference on the future of securities regulation
Chester Spatt, former chief economist of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and James Overdahl, current SEC chief economist, were among 21 speakers and discussion leaders at Notre Dame in April 2009 to discuss the U.S. financial crisis and the regulatory outcomes likely to shape financial markets in the future.
The conference was organized by Finance Professor Paul Schultz and covered a range of topics from short selling, to CEO pay, to valuing subprime mortgages.