27.12.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 14-11 "The Investment Value of Mutual Fund Managers’ Experience outside the Financial Sector" by Gjergji Cici, Monika Gehde-Trapp, Marc-André Göricke and Alexander Kempf has been accepted for publication in Review of Financial Studies.

07.11.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 14-14 "Trading Efficiency of Fund Families: Impact on Fund Performance and Investment Behavior" by Gjergji Cici, Laura Dahm and Alexander Kempf has been accepted for publication in Journal of Banking and Finance.

04.09.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 16-10 "Mutual Fund Transparency and Corporate Myopia" by Vikas Agarwal, Rahul Vashishtha, and Mohan Venkatachalam has been accepted for publication in Review of Financial Studies.

31.08.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 17-01 "A two-step indirect inference approach to estimate the long-run risk asset pricing model" by Joachim Grammig and Eva-Maria Küchlin has been accepted for publication in Journal of Econometrics.

03.08.2017
17th Cologne Colloquium on Financial Markets - Call for Papers
On March 12th, 2018, the 17th Cologne Colloquium on Financial Markets will take place. The deadline for submissions is
January 9th, 2018. Further information can be found here.

14.07.2017
Personalia
We congratulate the member of our CFR Research Team, Marc-André Goericke, for obtaining his Doctorate. Marc-André Goericke has written his thesis on "Essays on Returns to Human Capital in Asset Management“.

12.06.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 13-05 "The Term Structure of Bond Liquidity" by Monika Gehde-Trapp, Philipp Schuster and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg has been accepted for publication in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

14.03.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 13-06 "Investor Sentiment, Flight-to-Quality, and Corporate Bond Comovement" by Sebastian Bethke, Monika Gehde-Trapp and Alexander Kempf has been accepted for publication in Journal of Banking and Finance.

07.03.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 15-08 "Alpha or Beta in the Eye of the Beholder: What Drives Hedge Fund Flows?" by Vikas Agarwal, T. Clifton Green and Honglin Ren has been accepted for publication in Journal of Financial Economics.

21.02.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 12-01 "Choosing two business degrees versus choosing one: What does it tell about mutual fund managers' investment behavior?" by Laura Andreu and Alexander Pütz has been accepted for publication in Journal of Business Research.

10.02.2017
Personalia
We congratulate the members of our CFR Research Team, Laura Dahm and Sebastian Bethke, for obtaining their Doctorate. Laura Dahm has written her thesis on “Essays on Mutual Funds' Trading Activity”. Sebastian Bethke has written his thesis on “Essays on the Determinants of Corporate Bond Yield Spreads”.

11.01.2017
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 15-16 "Network Centrality and Pension Fund Performance" by David Blake, Alberto G. Rossi, Allan Timmermann, Ian Tonks and Russ Wermers has been accepted for publication in Journal of Financial Economics.

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Responsible for content in the sense of § 18 para. 2 MStV:
Dr. Alexander Pütz
Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
puetz@cfr-cologne.de