Invited Speakers

Bojan Basrak

Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics group), Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Research interests: Applied Probability, Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Extreme Value Theory Discrete Random Structures. Applications of those subjects in other areas such as Mathematical Finance, Insurance and Molecular Biology
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Maria Grith

M. Sc., Ph.D. student at the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics
Research interests: Microstructure of Financial Market, Empirical Pricing Kernels, Behavioral Economics, Monetary Policy, Economic Risk in Armed Conflicts
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle

Chairman of the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics
Director of the C.A.S.E. - Center for Applied Statistics and Economics
Coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk
Founding Council Member of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE)
Member of the National Centre for Econometric Research (Australia) 
"Highly cited Scientist" on the list provided by ISI- Institute of Scientific Information
Research interests: Modern Nonparametric Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics of Financial Markets
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Prof. Dr. Ostap Okhrin

Juniorprofessor (W1) at the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics
Member of the: Commission of the Master of Science in Statistics
Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft
Econometric Society
Research interests: Quantitative Methods in Economics, Applied Econometrics, Multivariate Distributions (Copulae), Credit Risk Modeling (CDO)
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Petra Posedel

Ph.D., Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb
Research interests: Mathematical Statistics and Probability, and it's Application in Finance, (G)ARCH Models in Finance, Stochastic Volatility Models, Financial Econometrics
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Weining Wang

M. Sc., Ph.D. student at the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics
Research interests: Uniform Confidence Bands for Empirical Pricing Kernels, Local Adaptive Method for Quantile Regression, Local Adaptive Method for Temperature Volatility Estimation, Group LASSO for Dynamic Semiparametric Factor Models Estimation
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Saša Žiković

Assistant Professor at the Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Economics Rijeka
Research interests: Measuring Market Risk Using Value at Risk Approach, Currency Exchange Rate Management, Stochastic Volatility Models, Volatility Forecasting, Extreme Event Modeling, Market, Credit and Enterprise Risk Management
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