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The workshop will consist of invited talks (with discussion) and a poster session. Each talk will last 40 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion and 5 minutes for questions from the audience.

The confirmed invited keynote speakers are Torben Andersen (Northwestern University), Rene Garcia (EDHEC Business School), Niels Haldrup (Aarhus University), Nikolaus Hautsch (University of Vienna), Marcelo J. Moreira (FGV-RJ), Bradley Paye (University of Georgia), Anders Rahbek (University of Copenhagen), Kevin Sheppard (University of Oxford), George Tauchen (Duke Univeristy), Timo Teräsvirta (Aarhus University), Viktor Todorov (Northwestern University) and Fabio Trojani (University of Lugano).

The confirmed invited discussants and/or poster presenters are Tim Bollerslev (Duke University), Gustavo F. Dias (Aarhus University), Marcelo Fernandes (FGV-SP), Peter R. Hansen (European Institute), Eric Hillebrand (Aarhus University), Anders B. Kock (Aarhus University), Eduardo F. Mendes (EMAP-FGV), João Mergulhão (FGV-SP), Daniel Preve (City University of Hong Kong), Cristina Scherrer (Aarhus University), Paul Schneider (University of Lugano), Michael Wolf (University of Zurich), Pedro Valls-Pereira (FGV-SP), David Veredas (Université libre de Bruxelles), and Flavio Ziegelmannn (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul).

The poster session will be an important part of the conference and the idea is that poster presenters will benefit from the discussion with the other participants of the workshop as well as with the invited speakers.

The program committee invites submissions of papers to be presented as a poster and welcomes and encourages contributions by young scholars and graduate students.

Prospective contributors are invited to submit their full papers by August 31, 2015 to Marcelo C. Medeiros (mcm@econ.puc-rio.br). Please provide complete contact details in your submission. This includes affiliation, position, email addresses, and websites of authors and presenters. Notification of acceptance will be send no latter than September 15. The deadline for registration is September 30, 2015.