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• The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics Schedules Conference on Market Liquidity

  - 2008-10-29

  CHICAGO -- The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, established by the Financial Mathematics Program at the University of Chicago, will hold on Saturday, November 1, 2008, a Conference on Market Liquidity involving presentations by eight noted practitioners and academic researchers. "While obviously a timely topic, our Conference on Market...

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• University of Chicago Financial Mathematics Program Enjoys Resiliency Despite Difficult Derivatives Market

  - 2008-06-17

  Job Demand High for Class of 2008, and Fall Enrollment Strong New Singapore-Based Arm of School Off to Vigorous Start CHICAGO -- Despite recent critical focus on financial derivatives, and weakness in the financial sector, demand for its practitioners remains strong. That, at least, is the view...

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• Lessons From the Mortgage Market Meltdown: U.S. Monetary Policy Forum Releases 2008 Report

  - 2008-02-29

  CHICAGO & WALTHAM, Mass. -- The U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, an annual conference that brings together academics, market economists and Federal Reserve policymakers to discuss U.S. monetary policy, today released its 2008 report on matters confronting the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC. The report, entitled "Leveraged Losses: Lessons from...

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• University of Chicago and the Stevanovich Research Center to Establish Financial Mathematics Graduate Program and Collaborative Research Initiative in Singapore

  - 2008-02-05

  New program offered first time out of the United States will serve to attract top financial mathematics talent to Singapore CHICAGO & SINGAPORE -- The University of Chicago's Financial Mathematics Department will establish its graduate program in Singapore - it will also be the first time it is offered...

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• U. of Chicago Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics Marks Official Launch with Two-Day Conference

  - 2007-10-19

  Academics and Traders to Present 51 Papers on Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management of Credit Sensitive Assets CHICAGO -- The University of Chicago's newly formed Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, an innovative approach to advance understanding of financial markets by bringing together academicians and financial professionals to help translate...

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• Financial Mathematics Conference at University of Chicago Features Worldwide Experts in Financial Instruments

  - 2007-04-27

  Nobel Prize Winner Robert Engle Among Economists and Mathematicians Presenting Papers on Volatility and High Frequency Data

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• Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, University of Chicago to Co-Sponsor Event on the Financial Impact of Ethics and Compliance Programs

  - 2006-09-06

  WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association ECOA, in conjunction with the University of Chicago Graduate Business School and in collaboration with the Harvard University's School of Public Health, will convene a meeting of corporate stakeholders to kick off a research project on the financial value of corporate...

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• Mergers and Acquisitions: A Financial Economics Perspective

  BNET - 2006-02-01

  In this paper, author begins by describing and assessing the different criteria used by financial economists to evaluate merger success. This paper then discuss the empirical evidence on mergers and acquisitions in the corporate finance literature beginning with stock return studies, moving to accounting-based studies, and finishing with some discussion...

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• M. Blair Hull Joins University of Chicago's Financial Mathematics Advisory Board

  - 2006-01-19

  CHICAGO -- M. Blair Hull, founder, chairman and CEO of Matlock Capital, LLC of Chicago, Illinois, has joined the Advisory Board for the University of Chicago's Masters in Financial Mathematics MFM program, it was announced today by Niels Nygaard, Ph.D., who heads the program. The University of Chicago's MFM program...

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• 13070000 Game theory.(5: Citations)(Bibliography)(Brief article)

  - 2005-09-01

  D. Baird and T. Jackson, 1988, "Bargaining After the Fall and the Contours of the Absolute Priority Rule", University of Chicago Law Review, 55:738-789 S. Baryosef and L. Huffman, 1986, "The Information-Content of Dividends--A Signaling Approach", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 21:47-58...

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