INVITATION 7th Financial Risks International Forum BIG DATA IN FINANCE AND INSURANCE Paris, March 20 & 21 2014 The Louis Bachelier "Finance and Sustainable Growth" Laboratory is pleased to invite you to the 7th Financial Risks International Forum. In the current context, this year's forum will focus on "BIG DATA IN FINANCE AND INSURANCE". Papers will address topics such as: - Large Scale Linear and Nonlinear Factor Models, Granularity, Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis, Construction of Indexes from Large Data Sets; - Behavioral Scores, Real Time Updating of Scores and Rankings - Analysis of Retail Contracts, of Balance Sheets Histories, of Investors and Fund Managers Behavior, of Risk Appetite Indicators Given on Google; - Analysis of Markets with Highly Differentiated Products: Pricing the Quality Characteristics, Hedonic Price Indexes, Application to Markets of Physical Goods - Contagion and Systemic Risk, Regulation in a Large Dataset Environment, Non Regulated Web Currencies - Effect of Big Data on the Organization of the Markets (Web Market Monitoring), on the Role of Intermediaries, on the Product Design - High Frequency Data, Market Microstructure. The aim of this event is to showcase the very best of international research, selected by our international scientific committee, chaired by Marie BRIERE - Amundi, Paris-Dauphine University and Université Libre de Bruxelles -. Panel sessions will be led by industry professionals, with workshops that encourage dialog among researchers and working financial professionals. The scientific committee's rigorous requirements, combined with the outstanding quality of the papers, ensure an event meets the highest level of international standards. Our guest speakers for this edition are: - Liran EINAV, Stanford University - Joseph “Joey” ENGELBERG, University of California, San Diego - Roberto RIGOBON, MIT Sloan School of Management The forum will take place on March, Thursday 20th and Friday 21rst, 2014 at the Paris Ile-de-France Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry / Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Région Paris-Ile-de-France. CCIP, 27 avenue de Friedland, 75008 Paris. Click here for the most recent agenda: http://risk2014.institutlouisbachelier.org If you would like to join us for interactive debates, please kindly register online: http://www.financialrisksforum.com/cgi-bin/risk2014/risk-inscrire?e=2014