• World Finance Banking Symposium
    Budapest, December 17th-18th, 2021
    Corvinus University of Budapest

World Finance Banking Symposium

  • Location

    Budapest, Fvám ter 8, 1093 Hungria
  • Date

    December 17th-18th-2021

50

Sessions

50

Countries

50

Participants

About the Conference

Overview

Program Proceeding online

Keynote Speakers

Bo Becker

Cevian Capital Professor of Finance - Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)

Bo Becker is the Cevian Capital Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. The department of finance is housed in the Swedish House of Finance. Professor Becker's research is on corporate finance, especially corporate credit markets. Recent topics include corporate bank lending through the business cycle, conflicts of interest in credit ratings industry, the covenant structure of loans and bonds, and comparing out-of-court restructuring to bankruptcy. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and other journals. Professor Becker has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Standard Life Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance WP series, the Nordea Price for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the European Finance Association's annual meeting and the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank.

Professor Becker holds a masters degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He previously worked at the University of Illinois and at Harvard Business School. Professor Becker has served as an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science and Financial Management, is a Research Fellow of Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has served on the board of directors of the Swedish National Debt Office, as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and as an expert for the inquiry into possible Swedish membership of the EU Banking Union. He serves as a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board.


Social activities

Walking Tour - Budapest Historical Area

The tour starts from the Vörösmarty square, where the participants see the attractions of the city centre. The tour guide shows the St. Stephan?s Basilica, the Great Synagogue, the Andrássy street among other important points of the city.  

Price per person: 15 euros

Note:  The program starts with a minimum of 10 person / tour. The price of tour includes the tour guide for 2 hours, but does not include any entrance tickets and food and drink.  consumption.

Venue

Venue Information

  • Corvinus University of Budapest
    Fovám tér 8, 1093 - Budapest, Hungary

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