Alumni Discussion Club Event with Professor Talis Putnins: Stock Markets as Casinos

To what extent are stock markets just another form of casino?  What determines the amount of gambling in a country's stock market?  And how does gambling in stock markets affect a country’s capital markets? Come along and find out. 

Tālis Putniņš will present some of his latest research using global data on “traditional” gambling such as casinos and novel estimates of gambling on stock markets, addressing the above questions. He will provide provocative policy suggestions for how to kick start Baltic capital markets through casino regulation.

Tālis Putniņš is Professor at UTS Business School (Sydney, Australia) and SSE Riga as well as Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS). His research interests include financial economics, market microstructure, market manipulation, tax evasion, and partial detection modelling. Tālis has a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and New York University.