ACADEMIC RESEARCH CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
2017
D. Sykes Wilford (The Citadel)
$25,000
over two years to support development of an open source course on risk management
University of Colorado-Denver
$120,000
over three years to support the Global Commodity Issues e-Journal and the Global Commodity Applied Research Digest
John Bilson and Li Cai (Illinois Institute of Technology)
$20,000
over two years to support the development of case studies for education on the use of futures in risk management
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business
$10,000
to support SoFiE Summer School: The Economics of Derivatives Markets
2016
Andres Trujillo Barrera and Joost Pennings (Maastricht University)
$25,000
over two years to support “Futures Market Depth” research
George Kapetanios and Georgios Skiadopoulos (Queen Mary University)
$20,000
over two years to support “Jumps in Option Prices and Their Determinants” research
Clemens Kownatzki (Pepperdine University)
$10,000
to support “In Search of a Better Volatility” research
Patrick Augustin, Gunnar Grass and Marti Subrahmanyam (McGill University/New York University)
$30,000
over two years to support “Detecting Informed Trading in Illiquid Option Mark” research
FARM Illinois
$225,000
over three years to support FARM Illinois Annual Conferences
Stevens Institute of Technology
$100,000
to support Innovative Methods of Computational Finance
Wilbert K. Chidaushe (Botho University)
$15,000
to support “The Impediments and Best Use of Derivatives” research
2015
Cambridge in America
$1,000,000
over five years to support Cambridge University’s Annual Series of Global Alternative Finance Studies
Stevens Institute
$85,000
to support Financial Systems Center Research Initiatives
University of Colorado
$125,000
over two years to support J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities Programs
Vanderbilt University
$10,000
to support the Financial Markets Research Center Conference
Jesse Blocher, Vanderbilt University
$15,000
over two years to support research on evaluating commodity fund managers
The Citadel Foundation
$30,000
over two years to support the research seminar “Changing Dynamics of Global Inflation: Implications for the Markets and Policy”
University of Nebraska Foundation
$500,000
over five years to support The Clayton K. Yeutter Institute of International Trade & Finance’s CME Group Foundation biennial symposium
Robert Webb and the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre
$25,000
over two years to support research in latency sensitive trading on HF Arbitrage Profits
University of Chicago
$500,000
over two years to support the Macro Financial Modeling research initiative of the Becker Friedman
University of Wisconsin
$20,000
over two years to support research on Copula Structure M4 processes in finance