MSQF Finance Seminar Series: Jeff Pontiff—Boston College

When

Oct. 4, 2024, 1:30pm to 3pm

Campus Location

Office/Remote Location

239

Description

The Department of Finance and the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance program would like to invite you to a seminar by Professor . 

Pontiff is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He has teaching and research interests in the area of corporate finance and capital markets and his research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and the Rand Journal.

Pontiff's papers have won numerous awards including both the Jensen Prize (first place), Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (first place), and the Sharpe Award (first place). He has held research or teaching positions at University of Washington, UCLA, Emory, Harvard Business School, National University of Singapore, ESCP-Europe, EPFL, Northeastern, and the Institute for Financial Research (Stockholm). The title of the seminar paper is: "A Century of Market Reversals: Resurrecting Volatility."

Admission Information

This event is free and open to all current Lee Business School graduate students and current business school faculty. Only open for current business school affiliates who are familiar with building procedure.

Contact Information

UNLV Lee School of Business Department of Finance
Steven Ho

External Sponsor

UNLV Department of Finance MSQF Program