Keynote Speaker
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Josef Zechner, WU Vienna University, Member of DFI Scientific Board |
Speakers
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Jan Bartholdy, Aarhus University and DFI Jan Bartholdy er siden 1999 lektor på Århus Universitet med speciale i Corporate Finance og finansielle institutioner. Han har en MA i økonomi fra Dalhousie University (Canada) og en PhD fra Queen’s University (Canada) med speciale i Finansiering, Industriel Organisation og Monetær økonomi. Jan Bartholdy har tidligere undervist på Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada) og University of Otago (New Zealand). Hans nuværende forskning er koncentreret omkring finansiering af Europæiske SMEs og regulering af finansielle institutioner. |
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Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen and DFI Niels Johannesen is a professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute. His research covers a range of topics in public finance and household finance and has been published in American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Review of Financial Studies and other journals. He received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2010. |
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Daniel Streitz, Copenhagen Business School and DFI |
Panelists
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Signe Krogstrup, Danmarks Nationalbank |
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Anders Damgaard, Group CFO at PFA Pension, Denmark Anders Damgaard is Group CFO and responsible for Finance & Group Functions. Before joining PFA on 1 December 2014, Anders Damgaard was Executive Vice President and Global Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking at Danske Bank. Prior to his employment with Danske Bank, Anders Damgaard was Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Southern Denmark. Anders Damgaard is Chairman of PFA Bank and sits on the Board of Directors of Danish Ship Finance, Blue Equity Management, PFA Asset Management, PFA Real Estate and PFA Kapitalforening. Anders Damgaard holds a Master of Science in Mathematics-Economics from Aarhus University as well as a PhD in Finance. |
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Lasse Heje Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School and DFI Lasse Heje Pedersen is a finance professor at Copenhagen Business School and a principal at AQR Capital Management. He has served as Director of the American Finance Association, in the Liquidity Working Group meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address liquidity issues, in the New York Fed’s Monetary Policy Panel, on the Economic Advisory Boards of NASDAQ and FTSE, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His academic awards include the Bernácer Prize to the best E.U. economist under 40 years of age, the Banque de France-TSE Prize, the Fama-DFA Prize, and the Michael Brennan Award. Lasse received his B.S. and M.S. from University of Copenhagen and his Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His latest book is Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined. |
Moderator of panel discussion
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David Bentow, Borsen business daily David Bentow is Managing Editor at Borsen business daily, with responsibility for the papers’ financial coverage. He has previously served as Editor for FinansWatch, an online news service covering the financial sector, as a financial reporter at Berlingske Business, bureau chief for Bloomberg News in Copenhagen and as financial reporter, US Correspondent and Financial Editor at Borsen. Additionally, he has worked as a research assistant for professor David Lando at the Center for Financial Frictions at Copenhagen Business School, and been a consultant at asset manager BLS Capital. |