Dear Colleagues, it is my pleasure to bring to your attention the following two seminars in Quantitative Finance, organised by LTI@UniTO. The seminars can be attended online via Zoom at the links accessible via the buttons below. Best regards, Luca Regis -- Luca Regis Associate Professor Department of Economics and Statistics (ESOMAS) University of Torino sites.google.com/view/lucaregis <http://sites.google.com/view/lucaregis> Office: +39 011 670 6065 www.carloalberto.org/lti <http://www.carloalberto.org/lti> <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/dxQszhXdTYSeK8TgXWVwPdgch-yVozm308uWxeg02CAeRgCXbxXMzGg0Afvlvvj-dMKNlzkSEuKcRdARWz4xB8ORasq7ZEsLK7H8it5uSxv1YQA41LEkDrUoFgv043G6EgQaODBV54pSvEw6G-VhdHv4-izZnrqz9U8DPjGJxvmBftACZhIuFnX9KhROIHfsZxBAmln1HQ> <#> LTI@UniTO and Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto are pleased to invite you to the following seminars: <#> *May 24, 2022 | 12:00-13:15* *Predicting Corporate Bond Returns: Merton Meets Machine Learning* *Amit Goyal (University of Lausanne)* <#> *Abstract.* We investigate the return predictability of corporate bonds using big data and machine learning. We find that machine learning models substantially improve the out-of-sample performance of stock and bond characteristics in predicting future bond returns. We also find a significant improvement in the performance of machine learning models when imposing a theoretically motivated economic structure from the Merton model, compared to the reduced-form approach without restrictions. Overall, our work highlights the importance of explicitly imposing the dependence between expected bond and stock returns via machine learning and Merton model when investigating expected bond returns. <#> *To attend in person, register here* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hfP4I4mUbx241x0z60A6739Y-00wYiECykBv8JEkIfoxDOPstOzun3OdgA9xxckWeA4IDkIikAeIuK1NrbDMOG-n2IKVWZFfFuzppykcNLz3DyBF81r6aD2JooS8N7kCAnxdJuOPTnxMw8bDd4cqvQWm_fURgLGfRlG2JNbOS7kVivIyXIdmg0qqpU8rBfOuAkoh5aWjXDU87BjHQw> <#> *To attend online, join Zoom Meeting* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/H7wKsG1vuV3OD31wQ_0E5gOGft1OURjriGpy4l2HBnbGy5-RIpKtNE24in74xl9qdi71_G-lNdxn3MOWKy1jqexRCget7fl3q0pEXzGTbyAj8S6Z9TzvrPDfzKAx82f67Ki7496qWeYia5GiENxXAlY90ZmgY3xJN7LTZHHy-JpEuaeW5a9IqrVgMIO-Ltcxx1Rvm6rU0087cWu9rtjDAZZCBEGY1r5AEYwVv7sF-2g8rREQF1S4zYdYXhSzm5tvTP90nrFrpiKkYQ> <#> <#> *May 25, 2022 | 12:00 - 13:15* *JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality* *Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)* <#> *Abstract.* Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure JAQ by combining employer-employee administrative data with machine learning techniques. The proposed measure is positively and significantly associated with labor earnings over workers’ careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading to an improvement in the quality and experience of management. 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