Barcelona Workshop in Financial Econometrics

Barcelona, May 14-15, 2026



Organizers:

Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Christian Brownlees (LUISS University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

André B.M. Souza (ESADE Business School)

Program

Thursday, 14th

  • 09:55-10:00: Organizers
    Welcome
  • 10:00-10:40: Daniele Massacci (King's College London)
    Model Comparison with Latent Factors
    with Cesare Robotti
  • 10:40-11:20: Anastasija Tetereva (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    Forecast Combination for Tail Risk with Regulator-Aware Decision Trees
    with Ekaterina Kazak
  • 11:20-11:50: Coffee Break
  • 11:50-12:30: Dario Palumbo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
    Multivariate Score-Driven Models for Strictly Positive Variables
  • 12:30-13:10: Sebastien Laurent (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
    Penalized Autoregressive Conditional Betas
    with Christian Francq, Sébastien Laurent and Julie Schnaitmann
  • 13:10-14:20: Lunch
  • 14:20-15:00: Nour Meddahi (Toulouse School of Economics)
    Generalized Autoregressive Models for Univariate and Multivariate Binary Data
    with Anna Bykhovskaya
  • 15:00-15:40: Mark Podolskij (University of Luxembourg)
    Statistical methods for high-dimensional volatility
  • 15:40-16:10: Coffee Break
  • 16:10-16:50: Stefan Voigt (University of Copenhagen)
    Uncertainty everywhere: Integrating conceptual uncertainty in the stochastic discount factor
    with Gregor Kastner, Luis Gruber and Patrick Weiss
  • 16:50-17:30: Kaizheng Wang (Columbia University)
    The Nonstationarity-Complexity Tradeoff in Return Prediction
    with Agostino Capponi, Chegpiao Huang, J. Antonio Sidaoui and Jiacheng Zou
  • 20:00 @ Restaurant El Tribut: Conference Dinner

Friday, 15th

  • 10:00-10:40: Raul Riva (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
    Risk Budgeting Mean-Variance Portfolios
    with Rodrigo Targino and Bernardo Costa
  • 10:40-11:20: Gustavo Freire (Nova School of Business and Economics)
    Which (Nonlinear) Factor Models?
    with Caio Almeida
  • 11:20-11:50: Coffee Break
  • 11:50-12:30: Alberto Quaini (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    The Estimation-Efficiency Frontier in Portfolio Complexity
    with Jiaqin Chen, Geng Deng, and Ming Yuan
  • 12:30-13:10: Andre A.P. Santos (CUNEF Universidad)
    A Forest Full of Risk Forecasts for Managing Volatility
    with Onno Kleen and Anastasija Tetereva
  • 13:10-14:20: Lunch
  • 14:20-15:00: Caio Almeida (Princeton University)
    Conditional Expected Option Returns
    with Fousseni Chabi-Yo and Gustavo Freire
  • 15:00-15:40: Valentina Raponi (IESE Business School)
    Testing for Weak Factors in Asset Pricing
    with Soohun Kim and Paolo Zaffaroni
  • 15:40-16:10 Coffee Break
  • 16:10-16:50: Jordi Llorens-Terrazas (Universidad Carlos III)
    Generative Predictive Distributions for Time Series
    with Mika Meitz

Venue and Logistics

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at the Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ciutadella Campus
Mercè Rodoreda Building (the one highlighted in red in the picture below), Room 23.S05

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner is at El Tribut at 20:00, on Thursday 14th.

Balcó Gastronòmic del Port Olímpic