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Accounting

Area Topic Supervisor E‐mail Dept.

ACC-1 Company valuation (strategy, cash flow analysis) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-2 Balanced Scorecard Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-3 Styringsmodeller Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-4 Omkostningsmodeller Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-5 Kalkulationsmodeller Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-6 Økonomistyring/ Management accounting Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-7 Management Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-8 Leadership Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-9 Change management and strategy Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-10 Diversity management Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-11 Motivation theory Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-12 Organisational behavior Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-13 Organisation theory Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-14 Traits, personality and leadership style Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-15 Performance management Karina Skovvang Christensen kschristensen@econ.au.dk

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ACC-16 Information economics Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa delarosa@econ.au.dk

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ACC-17 Contracts, incentives, performance measurement Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa delarosa@econ.au.dk

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ACC-18 Link between performance management and firm performance Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa delarosa@econ.au.dk

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ACC-19 Organisational architecture Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa delarosa@econ.au.dk

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ACC-20 Disagreement (heterogeneous beliefs) in markets and organisations Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa delarosa@econ.au.dk

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ACC-21 Evolutionary decision making, psychological biases Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa delarosa@econ.au.dk

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ACC-22 Earnings management. Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk

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ACC-23 The information effect of earnings announcements. Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk

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ACC-24 Incentive pay, accounting quality and earnings management. Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk

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ACC-25 Meeting and beating benchmarks. Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk

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ACC-26 Earnings discontinuities. Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk

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ACC-27 Empirical financial accounting research Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk

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Business (Department of Management)

Area Topic Supervisor E‐mail Dept.

BUS-1 Organisational Behaviour Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

MGMT

BUS-2 Job attitudes (e.g. job satisfaction commitment, loyalty) Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-3 Leadership Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-4 Public sector organisations Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-5 Qualitative/Quantative methods Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-6 Sickness absence Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-7 Strategic human resource management Ann‐Kristina Løkke Møller aklm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-8 Company valuation (strategy, cash flow analysis) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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BUS-9 Organisational behavior and leadership in public organisations Jesper Rosenberg Hansen jhansen@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-10 Organisational behavior and leadership Jesper Rosenberg Hansen jhansen@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-11 Public management Jesper Rosenberg Hansen jhansen@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-12 Strategy Jesper Rosenberg Hansen jhansen@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-13 Strategy in public organisations Jesper Rosenberg Hansen jhansen@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-14 Management and economics of patents (copyright, trademarks and trade secrecy in business)

John Howells joh@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-15 Strategies for managing network effects John Howells joh@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-16 Technological innovation (start‐ups, structure and function of venture capital, university spin‐outs)

John Howells joh@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-17 Technology implementation (attainment of increased economies of scale)

John Howells joh@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-18 Forhandling Niels Hansen nh@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-19 Behavioral Economics Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-20 Organisational Behavior Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-21 Organisational Design Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-22 Ethics / Moral Psychology Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-23 Cooperation and Productivity Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-24 Donation Psychology Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-25 Health Decision Making Panagiotis Mitkidis pm@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-26 Digital Marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-27 Branding Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-28 Social Media Marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-29 Business‐to‐Business marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-30 Business‐to‐Consumer marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-31 Crisis management Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-32 Marketing in the postmodern world Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-33 Marketing, stakeholder management Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-34 Online marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-35 Political marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-36 Social marketing Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-37 Stakeholder management Robert Ormrod rormrod@mgmt.au.dk

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BUS-38 Management Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

BUS-39 Organisation theory Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

BUS-40 Organisational behaviour Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

BUS-41 Organisational change Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

BUS-42 Public management Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

BUS-43 Public sector organisations Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

BUS-44 Quantitative methods Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel smlk@mgmt.au.dk MGMT

Econometrics and Business Statistics

Area Topic Supervisor E‐mail Dept.

ECO/BS-1 Forecasting Anders Bredahl Kock akock@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-2 High‐dimensional models/big data Anders Bredahl Kock akock@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-3 Portfolio allocation Anders Bredahl Kock akock@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-4 Prediction with expert advice Anders Bredahl Kock akock@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-5 Dynamic programming models, structural econometrics Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-6 High frequency trading and market manipulation Asger Lunde alunde@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-7 Modelling and forecasting financial market liquidity Asger Lunde alunde@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-8 Predictive Econometrics and Big Data Asger Lunde alunde@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-9 Markets with search frictions Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-10 Testing bond, option, foeign exchange model Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-11 Energy, climate, health, retirement Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-12 Inflation Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-13 Microeconometrics (instrumental variables, measurement

error, discrete choice)

Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-14 Machine learning, big data, neural networks Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-15 Automation, information and communication technology,

artificial intelligence

Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-16 Likelihood analysis, generalized method of moments, martingale estimating functions, Bayesian analysis, semiparametric models

Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-17 Longitudinal data, panel data, duration analysis Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-18 Time series econometrics (realized volatility, implied volatility, stochastic volatility, GARCH, long memory, cointegration, regime switching, Kalman filtering, financial forecasting)

Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-19 Machine learning (trees, boosting, neural networks) Bezirgen Veliyev bveliyev@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-20 Estimation of interest rate models Bezirgen Veliyev bveliyev@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-21 Volatility estimation and forecasting using high‐frequency data Bezirgen Veliyev bveliyev@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-22 Tail dependency network and systemic risk analysis Chen Huang chen.huang@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-23 Valid inference in high-dimensional structural linear models Chen Huang chen.huang@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-24 Model studies of convergent cross mapping and related methods Dan Mønster danm@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-25 Financial volatility modeling and forecasting Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-26 Topics in Climate Econometrics Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-27 Modeling and forecasting macroeconomic time series (e.g.

with dynamic factor models)

Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-28 Applied statistics Jesper Wulff jwulff@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-29 Foreign market entry Jesper Wulff jwulff@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-30 Quantitative modeling in management Jesper Wulff jwulff@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-31 Macroeconomics: Business cycles and monetary policy Juan Carlos Parra‐Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-32 Macroeconomics and housing markets Juan Carlos Parra‐Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-33 Applied macroeconometrics Juan Carlos Parra‐Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-34 Applied microeconometrics Lars Skipper lskipper@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-35 Labour Lars Skipper lskipper@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-36 Public policy evaluation Lars Skipper lskipper@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-37 Portfolio Optimization under joint VaR and ES constraints Leopoldo Catania leopoldo.catania@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-38 Dynamic Spatial Models for count data Leopoldo Catania leopoldo.catania@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-39 Score Driven Models Leopoldo Catania leopoldo.catania@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-40 The analysis of Cryptocurrency financial time series:

Dependence structure

Leopoldo Catania leopoldo.catania@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-48 Longevity risk & mortality forecasting Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-49 Duration models Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-50 Pension Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-51 Retirement Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-52 Applied microeconometrics Maria Humlum mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-53 Economics of education Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-54 Labour economics Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-55 Applied microeconometrics Marianne Simonsen mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-56 Education economics Marianne Simonsen msimonsen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-57 Health economics Marianne Simonsen msimonsen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-58 Labour economics Marianne Simonsen msimonsen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-59 Public policy Marianne Simonsen msimonsen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-60 Modelling and forecasting electricity prices Mikkel Bennedsen msimonsen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-61 Time series analysis by state space methods (Kalman or

partical filters)

Mikkel Bennedsen mbennedsen@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-62 Case studies af virksomheder Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-63 Branche analyser / industry studies Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-64 Analyse af konkret virksomhed / firm performance Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-65 Strategiske analyser / strategic analysis Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-66 Industriøkonomiske emner / industrial organisation Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-67 Innovation / Research & Development Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-68 Markedsanalyser / market research Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-69 Kundetilfredshedsanalyser / customer satisfaction Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-70 Kvantitative analyser generelt/quantitative analyses in general Mogens Dilling‐Hansen dilling@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-71 Analysis of questionnaire data Morten Berg Jensen mbj@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-72 Econometric methods applied to marketing research Morten Berg Jensen mbj@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-73 Econometric methods applied to organisational research Morten Berg Jensen mbj@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-74 Machine learning Morten Berg Jensen mbj@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-75 Volatility modeling (long memory procesess, distributions with

fat‐ tails)

Paolo Santucci de Magistris psantucci@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-76 Deriving asymptotic properties of semiparametric

and nonparametric estimators for econometric

models

Shin Kanaya skanaya@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-77 Bandwidth selection problem in nonparametric kernel estimation

of density and regression functions

Shin Kanaya skanaya@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-78 Network analysis Stefán Guðmundsson gsgudmundsson@econ.au.dk

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ECO/BS-79 Empirical analysis of price and return determination in stock and bond markets

Tom Engsted tengsted@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-80 Empirical analysis of return predictability in stock and bond markets Tom Engsted tengsted@econ.au.dk ECON

ECO/BS-81 Bayesian statistics and econometrics Tom Engsted tengsted@econ.au.dk ECON

Economics

Area Topic Supervisor E‐mail Dept.

ECON-1 Applied micro theory Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk

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ECON-2 Behavioral economics Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk

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ECON-3 Experimental economics Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk

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ECON-4 Organisational economics Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk

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ECON-5 Personnel economics Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk

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ECON-6 Behavioral Economics applied in Citizenscience Games Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk

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ECON-7 Trade theory and policy Allan Sørensen allans@econ.au.dk

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ECON-8 Topics in international Economics Allan Sørensen allans@econ.au.dk

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ECON-9 Economic policy in the open economy Allan Sørensen allans@econ.au.dk

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ECON-10 Economics of social interactions Anna Piil Damm apd@econ.au.dk

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ECON-11 Labour economics Anna Piil Damm apd@econ.au.dk

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ECON-12 Migration Economics Anna Piil Damm apd@econ.au.dk

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ECON-13 Urban economics Anna Piil Damm apd@econ.au.dk

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ECON-14 Search and Matching Models Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-15 Unemployment and Business Cycles Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-16 Monetary Economics Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-17 Heterogeneous Agent Macro Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-18 Wage and Income Inequality Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-19 Labor Market Sorting Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-20 Marriage Markets Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-21 Models of Household Behavior Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk

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ECON-22 Topics in Monetary Economics Bo Sandemann Rasmussen brasmussen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-23 Income Tax Reforms Bo Sandemann Rasmussen brasmussen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-24 Growth and Inequality Bo Sandemann Rasmussen brasmussen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-25 Social mobility Carsten B.H. Andersen candersen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-26 Student debts Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-27 Intergenerational mobility Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-28 Student Aid Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-29 Family interactions Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-30 Economics of Education Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-31 Labour Economics Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-32 Applied Microeconometrics Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk

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ECON-33 Monetary Economics Giovanni Pellegrino gpellegrino@econ.au.dk

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ECON-34 Macroeconomics and Uncertainty Giovanni Pellegrino gpellegrino@econ.au.dk

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ECON-35 Applied Macroeconomics with New Keynesian DSGE Models Giovanni Pellegrino gpellegrino@econ.au.dk

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ECON-36 Identification in Structural VARs and the Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks

Giovanni Pellegrino gpellegrino@econ.au.dk

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ECON-37 Topics in Open-Economy Macroeconomics Giovanni Pellegrino gpellegrino@econ.au.dk

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ECON-38 Applied microeconometrics Helena Skyt Nielsen hnielsen@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-39 Economics of education Helena Skyt Nielsen hnielsen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-40 Labour economics

Helena Skyt Nielsen hnielsen@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-41 International Economics Ina Charlotte Jäkel inaj@econ.au.dk

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ECON-42 Firms in international trade Ina Charlotte Jäkel inaj@econ.au.dk

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ECON-43 Dynamic discrete choice Jonas Maibom maibom@econ.au.dk

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ECON-44 Labour market models Jonas Maibom maibom@econ.au.dk

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ECON-45 Labour market policies Jonas Maibom maibom@econ.au.dk

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ECON-46 Microeconometrics Jonas Maibom maibom@econ.au.dk

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ECON-47 Programme evaluation Jonas Maibom maibom@econ.au.dk

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ECON-48 Competition policy and regulation Jos Jansen

jjansen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-49 Industrial economics Jos Jansen

jjansen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-50 Information economics and incentives Jos Jansen

jjansen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-51 Innovation and intellectual property Jos Jansen

jjansen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-52 Digital economy Jos Jansen

jjansen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-53 Economics of marketing

Jos Jansen

jjansen@econ.au.dk

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ECON-54 Macro-Finance Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk ECPM

ECON-55 Monetary economics and business cycle analysis Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk ECPM

ECON-56 Consumption based models of asset pricing Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk ECPM

ECON-57 Computational methods in macroeconomics Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk ECPM

ECON-58 Macroeconomics and housing markets Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez jparra@econ.au.dk ECPM

ECON-59 Applied micro theory Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk

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ECON-60 Behavioral economics Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk

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ECON-61 Experimental economics Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk

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ECON-62 Incentives in organisations Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk

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ECON-63 Personnel economics Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk

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ECON-64 Behavioral Economics applied in Citizenscience Games Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk

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ECON-65 Applied microeconometrics Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECON-66 Economics of education Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECON-67 Labour economics Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECON-68 Applied microeconometrics Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECON-69 Economics of education Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECON-70 Labour economics Maria Humlum mhumlum@econ.au.dk

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ECON-71 Macroeconomics: Business cycles and monetary policy Mark Weder mweder@econ.au.dk

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ECON-72 Topics – MACRO Mark Weder mweder@econ.au.dk

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ECON-73 Topics in Monetary Economics Mark Weder mweder@econ.au.dk

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ECON-74 Expectations and Macroeconomics Mark Weder mweder@econ.au.dk

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ECON-75 Topics in Behavioral Economics Mette Trier Damgaard mdamgaard@econ.au.dk

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ECON-76 Nudging Mette Trier Damgaard mdamgaard@econ.au.dk

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ECON-77 The microeconomics of globalization Michael Koch mkoch@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-78 The role of multinational firms in the global economy Michael Koch mkoch@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-79 Firms in international trade Michael Koch mkoch@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-80 Labour economics Michael Rosholm rom@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-81 Genomics Michael Rosholm rom@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-82 Causal evaluation Michael Rosholm rom@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-83 Education economics

Michael Rosholm rom@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-84 Applied microeconometrics Michael Svarer msvarer@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-85 Family economics Michael Svarer msvarer@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-86 Housing economics Michael Svarer msvarer@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-87 Labour economics Michael Svarer msvarer@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-88 Ageing and retirement Nabanita Datta Gupta

ndg@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-89 Economic development Nabanita Datta Gupta

ndg@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-90 Education and welfare Nabanita Datta Gupta

ndg@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-91 Health economics Nabanita Datta Gupta

ndg@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-92 Labour and demographic economics Nabanita Datta Gupta

ndg@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-93 Applied Micro Theory Nicola Maaser nmaaser@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-94 Political Economy Nicola Maaser nmaaser@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-95 Collective Decision-making Nicola Maaser nmaaser@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-96 Theories of the Firm Niels Peter Mols nmols@econ.au.dk

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ECON-97 Transaction cost analysis Niels Peter Mols nmols@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-98 Strategy and marketing Niels Peter Mols nmols@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-99 Compensation schemes for top managers Nina Smith nsmith@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-100 Promotions in organisations Nina Smith nsmith@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-101 The gender gap in top management Nina Smith nsmith@econ.au.dk ECON

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ECON-102 Empirical human resource management Nina Smith nsmith@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-103 Early childhood education Peter Jensen pje@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-104 Economics of education Peter Jensen pje@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-105 Population and labour market issues Peter Jensen pje@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-106 International Economics Philipp Schröder

psc@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-107 Economic Policy Philipp Schröder psc@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-108 Public Economics Philipp Schröder psc@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-109 International Economics Rui Zhang Rayzhangrui23@econ.au.dk

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ECON-110 Spatial and Urban Economics Rui Zhang Rayzhangrui23@econ.au.dk

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ECON-111 Chinese Economy Rui Zhang Rayzhangrui23@econ.au.dk

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ECON-112 Search Frictions and Unemployment Rune Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-113 Optimal Unemployment Insurance Rune Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-114 Applied microeconometrics Rune Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-115 Labour economics Rune Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-116 Search and matching models Rune Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-117 Wage inequality Rune Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-118 Microeconometric evaluation of public policies Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-119 Topics in Environmental Economics Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-120 Topics in Health and Labour Economics Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-121 Economics of crime Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-122 Environmental economics Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-123 Public policy and policy evaluation Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-124 Family and population Economics Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-125 Health economics Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-126 Labour Economics Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-127 Fiscal Policy Timo Trimborn tt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-128 Economic Growth Timo Trimborn tt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-129 Population Economics Timo Trimborn tt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-130 Environmental Economics Timo Trimborn tt@econ.au.dk ECON

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ECON-131 Housing Economics Timo Trimborn tt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-132 Personnel economics Tor Eriksson tor@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-133 Empirical human resource management Tor Eriksson tor@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-134 Management practices and corporate performance Tor Eriksson tor@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-135 Topics related to East Asian economies Tor Eriksson tor@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-136 Economic Policy Torben M. Andersen tandersen@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-137 Economics of the Welfare State Torben M. Andersen tandersen@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-138 Labour Economics Torben M. Andersen tandersen@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-139 Applied Micro-Econometrics Victor Ronda ronda@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-140 Economics of Education Victor Ronda ronda@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-141 Cognitive and Socio-emotional Skill Formation Victor Ronda ronda@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-142 The Determinants of Physical and Mental Health Victor Ronda ronda@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-143 Search and Matching Models W. Similan Rujiwattanapong rujiwatt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-144 Business Cycles Fluctuations W. Similan Rujiwattanapong rujiwatt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-145 Labour Market Dynamics W. Similan Rujiwattanapong rujiwatt@econ.au.dk ECON

ECON-146 Macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents W. Similan Rujiwattanapong rujiwatt@econ.au.dk ECON

Finance

Area Topic Supervisor E‐mail Dept.

FIN-1 Corporate finance Anil Kumar akumar@econ.au.dk

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FIN-2 Corporate real estate Anil Kumar akumar@econ.au.dk

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FIN-3 Real estate valuation Anil Kumar akumar@econ.au.dk

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FIN-4 Real estate indexes Anil Kumar akumar@econ.au.dk

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FIN-5 Return comovement Anil Kumar akumar@econ.au.dk

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FIN-6 Bonds (interest rates, term structure analysis) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-7 Corporate finance, event studies, dividend policy, capital structure Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-8 Corporate valuation (discounted cash flows, risk adjustment) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-9 Energy markets (OTC contracts, seasonality, price jumps) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-10 Executive compensation (pay and performance) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-11 Financial econometrics, empirical finance, high‐frequency data Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-12 Financial frictions, trading, market imperfections, asymmetric information

Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-13 International finance (exchange rates, inflation) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-14 Investments (real options, uncertainty) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-15 Options (futures, commodities, derivative pricing, hedging) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-16 Risk management (value at risk, credit risk) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-17 Stocks (portfolio choice, asset allocation, asset pricing) Bent Jesper Christensen bjchristensen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-18 Listing of very small companies Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-19 Recommendations on how to save for retirement Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-20 Long term forecasting of investment risk and returns Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-21 Cryptocurrencies: The world’s largest scam? Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-22 On the construction of index funds Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-23 Assessment of investment costs Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-24 Empirical finance (business cycles) Charlotte Christiansen cchristiansen@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-25 Empirical finance (integration and contagion of

international financial markets)

Charlotte Christiansen cchristiansen@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-26 Empirical finance (risk?return trade?off) Charlotte Christiansen cchristiansen@econ.au.dk ECON

FIN-27 Capital structure Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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FIN-28 Debt contracting Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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FIN-29 Strategic interaction and corporate policies Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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FIN-30 Financial intermediation Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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FIN-31 Forecasting realized volatility Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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FIN-32 Stock return predictability Eric Hillebrand ehillebrand@econ.au.dk

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FIN-33 Behavioural finance Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-34 Efficiency of financial markets Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-35 Empirical banking Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-36 Empirical corporate finance (mergers and acquisitions,

dividends, IPO, capital structure, governance etc.)

Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-37 Merger waves Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-38 Private equity firms Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-39 Short termism of financial markets Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk

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FIN-40 Empirical asset pricing Jonas Nyggard Eriksen jeriksen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-41 Return predictability (stock, bond, and/or currency markets) Jonas Nyggard Eriksen jeriksen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-42 Risk premia in currency markets Jonas Nyggard Eriksen jeriksen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-43 Financial market risk premia and the macroeconomy Jonas Nyggard Eriksen jeriksen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-44 Longevity Risk Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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FIN-45 Pension Fund Management Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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FIN-46 Life Insurance Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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FIN-47 Mortality modelling Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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FIN-48 Retirement Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb mkallestrup@econ.au.dk

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FIN-49 (Most) aspects of continuous time financial modelling Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-50 Financial derivatives: theory and applications Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-51 Risk management and regulation of banks Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-52 Risk management and regulation of pension companies Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-53 Topics in asset management, eg index investing, tracking

error, performance measurement, risk measures, etc

Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-54 Socially responsible investing (SRI) and ESG

investing (E=environmental, S=social,

G=governance)

Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-55 Estimating/calibrating the term structure of risk‐free interest rates Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-56 Hedging currency/FX risk in financial portfolios Peter Løchte Jørgensen plj@econ.au.dk

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FIN-57 Empirical Asset Pricing Ran Xing ran.xing@econ.au.dk

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FIN-58 Evaluation of Mutual Fund Performance Ran Xing ran.xing@econ.au.dk

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FIN-59 Quantitative Investment Strategies Ran Xing ran.xing@econ.au.dk

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FIN-60 Capital structure Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-61 Corporate finance Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-62 Corporate valuation Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-63 Financial intermediation Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-64 Investments, real options, uncertainty Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-65 Portfolio management Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-66 Strategic interaction and corporate policies Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-67 Credit ratings & rating agencies Stefan Hirth shirth@econ.au.dk

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FIN-68 Asset pricing Stig Vinther Møller svm@econ.au.dk

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FIN-69 Empirical finance Stig Vinther Møller svm@econ.au.dk

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FIN-70 Credit risk Thomas Kokholm thko@econ.au.dk

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FIN-71 Derivatives pricing Thomas Kokholm thko@econ.au.dk

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FIN-72 Fixed income securities Thomas Kokholm thko@econ.au.dk

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FIN-73 Volatility modelling and volatility derivatives Thomas Kokholm thko@econ.au.dk

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FIN-74 Asset pricing Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen tqpedersen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-75 Empirical finance Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen tqpedersen@econ.au.dk

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FIN-76 Empirial analysis of price and return determination in stock and bond markets

Tom Engsted tengsted@econ.au.dk

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FIN-77 Empirical analysis of return predictability in stock and bond markets Tom Engsted tengsted@econ.au.dk

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