News & Events Archive

June

• How to Fix Wall Street’s Flawed System of Compensation (New York Times)

May

• MSc Risk & Finance Graduate is Awarded WCIB Dissertation Prize

February

• Inaugural Women in Finance event takes place at LSE

January

• LSE Finance Graduate features on Forbes 30 Under 30 - Europe Finance list
• Dr Ulf Axelson receives Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize for second year running

August

• LSE tops list of graduates employed by major investment banks
  

July

• New Scholarship Announced in Memory of Professor Sudipto Bhattacharya
  

June

• Event video: Irrational Exuberance: as relevant as ever
• 8th annual Conference of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality is held at LSE 

May

• Six Department of Finance Staff Awarded for Teaching Excellence
• Professor Dimitri Vayanos wins Best Paper Award
  
• Department of Finance hosts its second Alumni Conference and Reunion

April

• LSE Finance Publishes Employment Report 2014
• Five new Finance faculty members announced for 2015/16

March

• 2015 Adam Smith Workshops in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance take place at LSE

February

• In the Press: New research by Dr Amil Dasgupta and co-authors featured in Wall Street Journal's Morning Risk Report
• Dr Jon Danielsson features at conference co-hosted by the LSE's Systemic Risk Centre

January

• Dr Ulf Axelson Awarded Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize

 

December

• LSE ranked 1st in the UK for Business and Management Studies by REF 2014

September

• 'CEOs time news to boost stock prices when they sell equity' - LSE's Moqi Xu

July

• Professor Dimitri Vayanos elected Fellow of the British Academy
• ESRC Future Research Leaders grant for LSE's Andrea Vedolin

June

• Finance academic Kathy Yuan wins ERC grant

May

• Video: The Takeover Code and the Battle for AstraZeneca
• Five Department of Finance staff recognised for teaching excellence

March

• British Academy grant for LSE Finance academic

February

• LSE Finance academics secure EIF research grant

 

October

• Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe wins the Coller PhD prize

July

• 2013 MSc Prize Winners Announced
• New Department of Finance faculty members 2013/14

June

• Professor David Webb features at AXA research fund anniversary event

May

• Public lecture: The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It
• 4Nations finance cup competition won by UK team for the second year running

April

• Event: Doing Well by Doing Good? Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets

March

• Public debate: Unintended Consequences of the New Financial Regulations

January

• LSE launches £5 million Systemic Risk research centre
• Another successful year for LSE academics at the annual American Finance Association awards

November

• Sudipto Bhattachrya Memorial Event
• Dr Daniel Paravisini secures research funding from Norges Forskingsråd
• Deputy CEO of Standard Bank Ben Kruger speaks at LSE

October

• Public Lecture: What I Learned by Doing Capitalism

August

• Professor Sudipto Bhattacharya (1951-2012)

July

• MSc Prize Winners announced
• Professor Mikhail Chernov wins international award for Best Asset Pricing paper
• New and Visiting Faculty 2012-13 

May

• Dr Georgy Chabakauri wins 4nations Cup 2012
• Department of Finance Faculty named Associate Editors of The Journal of Finance

April

• Department of Finance Hosts First Alumni Conference and Reunion

January

• Dr Daniel Paravisini's paper wins Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize at the AFA meeting in Chicago
• FMG 25th Anniversary Conference

2011

November

• Public Lecture: LSE perspectives on the sovereign debt crisis  

October

• Making Europe Safer - A safer way to save the eurozone proposed by Dimitri Vayanos and a Group of fellow European economists

July

• Orientation Timetable now online

June

• Dr Dong Lou wins best paper prize at the Western Finance Association
• Jon Danielsson publishes new book on 'Financial Risk Forecasting'
• Former BSc Accounting and Finance student wins award at the 'City equivalent of Oscars'

May

• New and Visiting Faculty 2011/12

February

• LSE Launches The Standard Bank Scholarships
• Public Lecture: Private Equity Insider: A Chat with Tony James
• FMG Public Lecture: Best Ideas: Can Fund Managers Beat the Market?

2010

December

• FMG & AXA Conference: Financial Intermediation, Banking and Macro-Stability

October

• FMG Conference: Assessing the Effectiveness of the New Regulatory Architecture

September

• Private Equity: Leveraged Expertise or Leverage Bets?

July

• Antoine Faure-Grimaud prize-winners announced
• Paul Woolley Centre Conference: The Future of Finance

June

• FMG and Summer School Public Lecture: Too Big to Fail: The Aftermath and What Next?
• FMG Conference: The Third Annual Conference of the Paul Woolley Centre

May

• FMG Public Lecture: A Manifesto for Giant Funds - Resolving the Dysfunctionality of Finance

April

• FMG Conference: Assessing the Emerging Financial Architecture
• Professor Mikhail Chernov to join Department of Finance

March

• Skirting the Issue: Research by Dr Daniel Ferreira discussed in the Economist
• Admin Team raise £485 for charity  

January

• LSE Department of Finance Success at AFA Annual Meeting - Ulf Axelson and Peter Kondor awarded highest prizes for papers published in the Journal of Finance 

• Antoine Faure-Grimaud Memorial Event - November 2009 
• Dahrendorf Scholars' Reception  - November 2009
• VIDEO: "The Future of Banking and Financial Regulation" - Public Lecture by Prof. David Webb - October 2009
• FMG conference: "Too Big to Fail, Too Interconnected to Fail?"  - September 2009
• LSE launches new MSc Finance and Private Equity
• New and Visiting Faculty 2009-10 
• It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of Professor Antoine Faure-Grimaud on 6 July 2009 
• FMG Conference: Reforming Global Architecture of Financial Regulation
• Professor David Webb takes over as Head of Department 
• Creditflux-Cairn Dissertation Prize winner announced 
• Lord Dahrendorf Scholarships confirmed for 2009/10 entry 
• Dr Malcolm Knight joins the Department as Visiting Professor 
• Good University Guide 2009 - LSE top for Finance 
• Creditflux-Cairn Capital Prize for best MSc Dissertation announced 
• MSc Finance and Economics Alumni Networking Evening - October 2008
• Dr Josef Ackermann, 'Lessons from Liquidity and the Credit Crisis', Monday 14 January 2008
• The Financial Crisis: An LSE Viewpoint - FMG Conference, Thursday 27 November 2008 
• Paul Woolley Centre 1st annual Conference, 12-13 June 2008 
• FMG Public Lecture: Financial Market Stability - Friday 6 June 2008 
• FMG Conference: Integrating Historical Data and Expectations in Financial Econometrics - Friday 30 May 2008' 
• Structure of regulation: lessons from the crisis of 2007' A joint FMG and Deutsche Bank Conference - Monday 3 March 2008 
• MSc Management and Regulation of Risk Graduation 2007 
• Dr Josef Ackermann Joins the Department of Finance as Visiting Professor 
• PhD Job Market Candidates 2007/8 
• Professor Dimitri Vayanos heads the FMG's newly established Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality 
• Finance faculty contribute to 'The Financial Crisis Conference' - Monday 1 October 2007, FMG 
• New and Visiting Faculty 2007/8 
• LSE Launches New Department of Finance 
• Good University Guide 2007 - Accounting and Finance ranked number one 
• The Department of Finance congratulates the graduates of 2007 
• GAM Gilbert de Botton Award in Finance Research 2007 
• BP Visiting Professor Lecture: Jiang Wang, Monday 18 June 2007
• Sargent-Sims colloquium; 'Alternative Perspectives on Macro Econometric Policy Evaluation' 29 May 2007 
• BP Visiting Professor Lecture: George Constantinides, March 13 2007
• MSc Finance and Economics 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, Saturday 14 October 2006 
• RICAFE 2 Conference on Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship (organised by FMG), 5-6 October 2006