Mini Courses: - Levy Processes and Application in Finance (Rama Cont and Monique Jeanblanc) - Random Matrices and Correlations in Large Financial Markets (Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Noureddine El Karoui)

The CFS Summer School 2008: - offers a scenic and stimulating environment for Ph.D. students to learn about the latest developments in their field from renowned international faculty, - helps postgraduate researchers in the positioning of their work through the exchange of research ideas and...

Topics: 1) Short revision of the basics of asset allocation and asset pricing 2) Asset prices and allocations in the presence of - Limited participation - Short-sale constraints - Liquidity risk - Heterogeneous beliefs - Heterogeneous risk aversion - Recursive preferences - Prospect theory...

The subject of this year’s summer school is Asymmetric Information and Learning in Financial Markets: Theory and Time Series Econometrics.

Courses: EC102: Introductory Macroeconomics EC112: Essential Statistics for Economics and Econometrics EC202: Intermediate Macroeconomics EC212: Introduction to Econometrics EC270: Public Finance EC302: Advanced Macroeconomics EC307: Development Economics EC351: International Economics