The pros and cons of digital currency

Published: 8 July 2021

Professor Katrin Tinn weighs in on the ongoing debate about the sustainability of digital currency in Canada. In her view, consumers would benefit from a more up-to-date understanding of their...

Building the digital currency space

Published: 17 June 2021

Professor Katrin Tinn is at the forefront of the effort to reimagine Canada’s monetary backing system....

Patrick Augustin, Associate Professor of Finance, awarded Canada Research Chair in Macrofinance and Derivatives

Published: 16 June 2021

Professor Patrick Augustin’s research program seeks to foster our understanding of financial markets and public institutions, focusing on sovereign and corporate credit risk, insider trading, and...

Desautels achieves second consecutive win at PRMIA

Published: 12 April 2017

Congratulations to Desautels undergraduate students: Evan Coulter, Valentyn Litvin, Meagan Prins, and Marina Simonian who won the top prize at the prestigious PRMIA International Risk Management...

Desautels students take home top prize at PRMIA

Published: 16 April 2019

Congratulations to the Desautels Capital Management Team comprised of BCom students Ludovic Van den Bergen, Emilie Granger, Ian Jiang, and Roy Chen Zhang who won first place and $10,000 in prize...

Volmageddon and the Failure of Short Volatility Products

Published: 8 June 2021

Authors: Patrick Augustin, I-H. Cheng and L. Van den Bergen Publication: Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming; First published online May 20, 2021 Abstract:

In Sickness and in Debt: The COVID-19 Impact on Sovereign Credit Risk?

Published: 9 February 2021

Authors: Patrick Augustin, V. Sokolovski, M.G. Subrahmanyam, and D. Tomio Publication: Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming Abstract:

The future of ETF regulation

Published: 13 May 2021

Professor Patrick Augustin provides an expert perspective on questions surrounding the regulation of a Bitcoin-traded fund (ETF) proposed by VanEck Associates Group. While the Securities and...

When sovereign debt becomes a problem

Published: 28 April 2021

Professor Patrick Augustin and three other North American economists are ringing an alarm bell about the increasing risks associated with heavy borrowing at the state level. In their recent study...

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