Lecturer：Robert I. Webb
Topic：News and the Behavior of Speculative Prices
Time：11.04, 4:00-6:00
Location：A1048
Host：Professor Han Liyan
About the lecturer：
Professor Robert Ivory Webb now teaches in the Finance area at the University of Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and McIntire School of Commerce, he is also a visiting professor of the Graduate School of Finance of KAIST Business School, and a distinguish research professor of Paul Tudor Jones II. Webb has traded fixed income securities for the World Bank. He traded stock index futures as a "local" on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He served as senior financial economist at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He previously taught at the University of Southern California.
His research focuses on risk management applications of derivatives, trading strategies, speculative markets, trading and incentive economics. He is the co-author of several books and has written numerous academic papers. He is the chief editor of the Journal of Futures Markets, an leading academic finance journal that specializes in articles on futures and other derivative securities and markets.
School of Economics & Management
SEM Postgraduate Association
2011-10-31
