The PhD Research Seminar in Mathematics for Economics and Business ("Brown Bag Seminar") takes place on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 13:30.

Given the current situation, we are changing the seminars to online sessions. A direct link to the respective stream will be posted at each date. 

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Schedule:

(12:00-12:15 Dial-in)
12:15-13:00 Talk
13:00-13:30 Discussion

The seminar is a forum where PhD students and postdocs present their research projects; work in progress is fully ok. Moreover, some more senior faculty members talk about their work.
Typically, each presentation is followed by a short discussion.

Seminar Schedule:

• March 10, 2021
  Irene Monasterolo (Institute for Ecological Economics, WU Wien)
  On the dependence of investor's probability of default on climate transition scenarios
  > Paper
  > Abstract
  Discussant: Rüdiger Frey
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]

• March 17, 2021
  Julian Amon Time-Varying Alpha
  Discussant: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]

• March 24, 2021
  Jana Hlavinova Quantiles of random variables, vectors and sets and how to elicit them.
  Discussant: Verena Köck
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]

• April 14, 2021
  Darjus Hosszejni When It Counts—Econometric Identification of Factor Models with Sparse Factor Loading Matrices
  Discussant: Manfred Deistler
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]

• April 21, 2021
  Kevin Kurt Microscopic Bubbles
  Discussant: Paul Eisenberg
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]

• April 28, 2021
  Lukas Sablica Watson S01E03: Random Sampling From the Watson Distribution
  Discussant: Tobias Fissler
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]

• May 5, 2021
  Andreas Celary Term Structure Models in a Markov-modulated Market Setting
  Discussant: Robert Bajons
  Robert Bajons Markov Modulated Affine Processes in Credit Risk
  Discussant: Andreas Celary
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]

• May 12, 2021
  Sourav Adhikari Topic Modelling with Ideal Points
  Discussant: Eva Flonner
  Eva Flonner Bayesian Neural SDEs for Exotic Option Pricing
  > Abstract
  Discussant: Sourav Adhikari
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]

• May 19, 2021
  David Hirnschall Generating Financial Markets with Signature-Based Wasserstein GANs
  Discussant: Niklas Hey
  Niklas Hey A solution method for bounded convex set optimization problems.
  Discussant: David Hirnschall
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]

• May 26, 2021
  Lydia Novoszel Implication of COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains, a meta-analysis of supply chain disruption research – work in progress
  > Abstract
  Discussant: Jana Hlavinová
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]

• June 2, 2021 
  Régis Gourdel Bi-layer stress contagion across investment funds: a climate application
  > Abstract
  Discussant: Kevin Kurt
  
  Giacomo Bressan Climate physical risk and the financial sector
  > Abstract
  Discussant: Camilla Damian
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]

• June 9, 2021 / 12:15 - 13:30
  Gabor Tamás Advanced analytics for smart logistics – work in progress
  Discussant: Andrea Wagner
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]

• June 16, 2021 / 12:15 - 13:30 online via Zoom - direct link
  Philipp Gersing Generic Identifiability for (Cointegrated) Unit Root VAR Systems from Mixed Frequency Data.
  Discussant: Peter Knaus
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
  
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