Deakin University's School of Accounting, Economics and Finance is pleased to invite you to spend four days with one of the most pre-eminent professors in Market Microstructure - Professor Tarun Chordia, the R. Howard Dobbs Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University.
The School's Financial Econometrics Group, Finance discipline, will present a four-day Doctoral Course on Market Microstructure from 24 to 27 January 2012; daily registrations begin at 9.30am, with two sessions per day - 10am - 12pm and 2 - 4pm.
Location: Richard Searby Room, HD2.006, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood Victoria 3125
Parking is available at the multi-level car park CP6. Please take note of the parking conditions.
This intensive course will cover topics including Rational Expectations Models, Price Setting in Securities Markets, Bid-Ask Spreads and Liquidity and Asset Pricing.
Course places are limited, with an attractive discount for PhD students. Course fees are AU$500 for PhD students and AU$1,500 for academics and practitioners; and will cover teaching materials and morning/afternoon tea.
If you are ready to make a booking, you can visit our online registration.
Professor Chordia is the R. Howard Dobbs Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He obtained his doctorate in finance from UCLA in 1993 and was at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University prior to joining Emory University in the fall of 2000. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for Citibank as a relationship and credit manager in the Financial Institutions Group.
Professor Chordia's research interests include market microstructure and asset pricing. He has published extensively in the top finance journals including Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Review of Financial Studies. He is an editor of the Journal of Financial Markets. His teaching interests include corporate finance, investments, financial institutions and fixed income markets.