The Institute for Advanced Studies and the Vienna Graduate School of Finance are holding the first Vienna Workshop on High Dimensional Times Series in Macroeconomics and Finance on May 2 - 4, 2013. A special focus will be on factor models and Bayesian methods for forecasting and analysis. The...

The European Finance Winter Summit(formerly 'The Skinance Workshop') is a joint initiative of financial economists from Austria and Norway and brings together researchers alternately in one of the Norwegian or Austrian ski resorts. The aim is to discuss and develop new ideas in any field of finance.

The focus of this year’s symposium is on “real assets” such as real estate, commodities, etc. In particular we invite empirical and theoretical research on: the risk-return characteristics of real assets, return prediction in real asset markets, alternative instruments and investment...

The objective of this year’s symposium is to discuss new empirical and theoretical advances in research on hedge funds. We are particularly interested in research on new strategies for investment funds, analysis of alternative investments, style investing, and performance evaluation.