Call for papers Autumn Seminar 2025
As part of its activities, Inquire Europe, organizes bi-annual seminars. The autumn seminar will be organized in Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 12–14 October 2025. The theme of the seminar is: [...]
Research
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Will ETFs drive Mutual Funds extinct?
Are mutual funds dinosaurs headed for extinction? Over the past 15 years, new fund flows have largely been directed towards ETFs and some experts predict that they will eventually replace [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds
Professor Isil Erel, David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance at The Ohio State University and Academic Director of the RISK Institute, delivered a talk at Inquire Europe Autumn Seminar 2024 [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Illiquid assets and Smoothed Returns
During the Autumn Seminar in Valencia, Andrei Gonçalves from Ohio State University gave a tutorial titled: ‘Illiquid assets and Smoothed Returns’; for those of you who missed it we have [...]
Research grants available
Inquire Europe provides financial support for academic research projects which have the potential to be applied in the field of investment management. We encourages early-stage research focusing on European issues [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE ECO-SYSTEM
For those who missed it, Columbia University finance and real estate professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh gave a tutorial on commercial real estate (CRE) assets in the context of evolving market [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: PRIVATE EQUITY, LIQUIDITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
For those who couldn’t attend, Per Strömberg, leading expert from the Stockholm School of Economics, delivered a presentation at the Inquire Europe Autumn Seminar 2024 in Valencia. His tutorial examined [...]
Isil Erel Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2024
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the best paper presented at the Autumn Seminar 2024 to Isil Erel, for her presentation entitled “Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt [...]
Heiner Beckmeyer Prize Winner Joint Spring Seminar 2024
The prize committees of Inquire Europe and Inquire UK decided to award the prize for the best paper presented at the Joint Spring Seminar 2024 to Heiner Beckmeyer, for his presentation entitled “A New [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: political uncertainty and asset prices
Recently, there has been rampant political uncertainty, with conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, the debt ceiling crisis, and divisive presidential elections with Trump and Biden dominating headlines worldwide. While political [...]
Research grants available
Inquire Europe provides financial support for academic research projects which have the potential to be applied in the field of investment management. We encourages early-stage research focusing on European issues [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Mental Models in Financial Markets: How Do Experts Reason About the Pricing of Climate Risk?
This research delves into how mental models of pricing in financial markets shape return expectations. The primary objective of finance lies in pricing risks, where the level of mispricing indicates [...]