Remco Zwinkels

Remco is Professor of International Finance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before starting at the VU, he was assistant professor in international finance as well as the head of the finance group at the Erasmus School of Economics. He holds a MSc in monetary economics from the Erasmus University, an MPhil in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute, and a PhD in Economics from the Radboud University Nijmegen. Remco worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Technnology in Sydney and the Auckland University of Technology. His main research interest lies in the field of behavioral finance, and expectation formation in particular.  Remco is a certified teacher and has taught a large number of courses, ranging from international economics, monetary economics, to empirical finance.

Research in Behavioral Finance Conference. I am co-organizing the Research in Behavioral Finance Conference, a bi-annual conference on behavioral finance.

Under review    

• Agreeing on Disagreement: Heterogeneity or Uncertainty? (with Saskia ter Ellen and Willem Verschoor), revise and resubmit.
• Speculation in European Sovereign Debt Markets (with Bart Frijns), revise and resubmit.
• Timing is Money: The Factor Timing Ability of Hedge Fund Managers (with Bart Osinga and Marc Schauten), revise and resubmit.
• Investor sentiment and employment (with Maurizio Montone), submitted.
• Comparing Behavioral Heterogeneity Across Asset Classes (with Saskia ter Ellen and Cars Hommes), submitted.
• Dynamic Portfolio Strategies in the European Corporate Bond Market (with Mary Pieterse-Bloem, Zhaowen Qian, and Willem Verschoor), submitted.
• Volatility, Investor Uncertainty, and Dispersion (with Ronald Huisman and Nico van der Sar), submitted.
• Can the Market Divide and Multiply? A Case of 807% Mispricing under Short Selling Constraints (with Marc Schauten, Martijn vd Assem, and Dennie van Dolder).
• Behavioral Heterogeneity in Return Expectations across Equity Style Portfolios (with Philip Stork and Milan Vidojevic), submitted.

Work in progress  

• Company Name Fluency and Stock Returns (with Martijn van den Assem and Maurizio Montone).
• Commonality Among Equity Mutual Funds: Impact on Financial Stability and Price Discovery (with Annelies Casteleyn, Jean-Yves Gnabo, and Sophie Béreau).
• Exploring Style Herding by Mutual funds (with Caterina Santi).
• The Winner Takes It All: Predicting Exchange Rates with Google Trends (with Agnieszka Markiewicz, Ralph Verhoeks, and Willem Verschoor).
• Expected Issuance Fees and Market Liquidity (with Boyd Buis, Mary Pieterse-Bloem, and Willem Verschoor).

Remco is the academic director of the Master in Finance. 

Top Financial Programme in the Heart of Amsterdam's Financial District
The MSc Finance programme at VU University ranked first among the finance programs in the Netherlands (Guide for Higher Education 2016, 2017, ánd 2018) and is competitive to any Finance major in the world. It has a reputation of training students in analytical and quantitative skills that are directly applicable in their business career.

Remco is currently involved in the following courses:

• Asset Pricing (Master, VU)
• Research Project (Master, VU)       
• Master Thesis Finance (Master, VU) 
• Behavioral Finance (PhD, Tinbergen Institute)

• Stichting Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren | Haarlem | Bestuurder | 2018-01-01

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