Welcome to FRIC’18!

Copenhagen Business School hosts the sixth international conference on financial frictions in collaboration with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) and the Department of Finance. This year’s conference will focus on asset pricing, liquidity and monetary policy.

The conference is organized by David Lando and Lasse Heje Pedersen and will take place at CBS, August 16-17, 2018.

Confirmed Keynotes

• Tim Bollerslev, Duke University
• John Geanakoplos, Yale University
• Maureen O’Hara, Cornell University
• Suresh Sundaresan, Columbia Business School

 Confirmed Speakers

• Susan Christoffersen, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
• Bryan T. Kelly, Yale School of Management
• Sydney Ludvigson, New York University
• Pedro Matos, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
• Albert J. Menkveld, VU University Amsterdam and CEPR
• Anders B. Trolle, HEC Paris

 Confirmed Discussants

• Svetlana Bryzgalova, Stanford Graduate School of Business 
• Peter Feldhütter, Copenhagen Business School
• Grigory Vilkov, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
• Ingrid Werner, The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business
• Paul Whelan, Copenhagen Business School
• Josef Zechner, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and CEPR

Registration
In order to participate in the FRIC’18 conference, you need to register here and pay the registration fee.
If you qualify for a reduced or free registration fee, you will need to send an email to Julie de Molade at fric@cbs.dk before registering stating which of the reduced fee categories that applies to you.

Regular participant fee:

• DKK 1000.- (app. EUR 135.-)

Reduced fees:

• All CBS faculty and PhD students: free of charge
• Non-CBS PhD students: free of charge
• CBS and non-CBS students: reduced fee of DKK 150.-
• Members of Finansforeningen: reduced fee of DKK 500.-

Please note: your conference registration is only valid once you have received an email confirmation from the conference system, so please check your inbox!

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Deadline for registration: August 9, 2018, at noon

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