The Financial Markets Research Group at the University of Bristol Business School is hosting an in-person, two-half-day conference (from lunch to lunch) on July 1^st to 2^nd, 2024. The conference will feature the in-depth presentation and discussion of six papers on the theme of “Data and Financial Markets”. In addition, we welcome a keynote speech by Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago and NBER) and a panel discussion including industry experts from asset management.  

Provisional list of presenters and titles:

• Cesare Robotti (Warwick Business School): The Low Frequency Trading Arms Race: Machines Versus Delays

• Mathis Moerke (University of St. Gallen): Machine Forecast Disagreement

• Mattia Bevilacqua (University of Liverpool Management School): Uncovering the Asymmetric Information Content of High-Frequency Options

• Miao Liu (Boston College): Hedging Climate Change Risk: A Real-time Market Attention Approach

• Helene Mathurin (ESSEC Business School): A Greenwashing Index

• Frank de Jong (Tilburg University): What triggers Flights to Safety?

The conference will provide an opportunity for the speakers to showcase their research and interact in person with other researchers around the conference theme. The conference venue is Arts Complex, Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2), 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB.

The conference will include two lunches (at the conference venue) and a dinner at the Riverstation (The Grove, Bristol , BS1 4RB) on 1^st July, 19:00 pm. Updated information about the programme is available here on the FMRG webpage. 

Registration

External attendees can register through the University shop, and internal attendees should register via the research group.

• Registration fee £100;
• Registration deadline: 16^th June, 2024

Travel and hotel information

• Hotels near Clifton:
  • Number 38 Clifton (4 star)
  • Avon Gorge by Hotel du Vin (3 star)
  • Clifton Hotel (3 star)
  • Victoria Square Hotel (2 star)
• Hotels in City Centre:
  • Clayton Hotel Bristol City (4 star)
  • Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel (4 star)
  • Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel (4 star)
  • Premier Inn Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) hotel (3 star)
  • Travelodge Bristol Central (3 star)

Any further queries or questions, please email business-school-conferences@bristol.ac.uk.