Events
A cycle of study seminars, workshops and conferences on several current economics topics have been organized in the framework of the VERA research Center, also in cooperation with other on-going national and European funded projects managed by the Department.
These events carried out by eminent international academics are a great opportunity to discuss relevant economic issues and topics with students, researchers and members of academic staff.

VERA Workshops

3rdSpatial Health Economics Workshop
July, 8th-9th 2022
San Giobbe Economics Campus,
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Experimental and Behavioral Economics Workshop
June, 23rd-24th 2022
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Anglo-French-Italian Macro Workshop
December, 10th-11th 2021
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Applied Health and Risk Economics
February, 13th 2020
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Life-cycle finance, asset allocation and insurance: new trends and challenges
January, 17th 2020
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Machine Learning for Finance
October, 3rd 2019
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Macro-Finance Workshop
May, 6th 2019
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

The Economics of Social Interactions
February, 1st 2019
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
VERA Finance seminar series
1st seminar cycle
Alberto Plazzi
Università della Svizzera Italiana
- Financing Decisions and MM principle
- Debt Policy with Taxes and Bankruptcy costs
- Debt Policy With Agency Conflicts and Asymmetric Information
- Dividend Policy
- Behavioral Finance
2nd seminar cycle
Stephen Schaefer
London Business School
- Introduction to derivatives and Arbitrage. Forwards, Swaps and Futures
- Fixed income derivatives.
- Introduction to Options. Trading Strategies Involving Options and Introduction to the Binomial Model
- The Black-Scholes Model
- Options on Currencies and Futures
3rd seminar cycle
- Property income streams
- Pro forma analysis
- Equity valuation
- Tax analysis
- Financial structuring of real property ownership
4th seminar cycle
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University
- Arbitrage and risk‐neutral pricing
- Classical interest‐rate models & Multifactor interest‐rate models
- Credit risk and default
- Nonparametric density estimation for interest rates & Nonparametric estimation of volatility
- Nonparametric pricing of interest‐rate derivatives
5th seminar cycle
Michel Dacorogna
Prime Re Solutions
- The concept of risk, risk measure and the pricing of risk
- Aggregation of risk and dependencies
- Concept of capital and management of capital
- The new Solvency Regulations and the Role of Reinsurance
- Entreprise Risk Management (ERM) towards a holistic approach to risk management
6th seminar cycle
Alain Monfort
Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (CREST)
- Stochastic processes & Statistical modelling of a stochastic process
- Generalisations of univariate ARCH models
- Inference in ARCH-GARCH models
- Multivariate GARCH models
- Hidden Markov Chain models (or Discrete Factor Models)
7th seminar cycle
Jean-Michel Grandmont
Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (CREST)
- Choice among risky prospects. The expected utility hypothesis. Measures of risk aversion. “Paradoxes” in actual decision making
- Prices of marketed assets and state prices. Absence of arbitrage opportunity and pricing of derivative securities
- Pricing in complete financial markets: the consumption based capital asset pricing model (CCAPM). Allocation of risks
Conferences

European Conference on Stochastic Optimization - Computational Management Science Conference (ECSO-CMS)
June, 29th-30th; July, 1st 2022
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance (eMAF)
September 18th, 22nd and 25th 2020
International remote conference

Workshop annuale Società Italiana di Economia e Politica Industriale (SIEPI)
January, 30th-31st 2020
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Time Series Models: Theory and Applications (IWEEE)
January, 23th-24th 2020
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Ca' Foscari University of Venice