
Volatility and Risk Institute
An interdisciplinary center for research on financial, geopolitical, cyber, and climate risks by scholars, practitioners, and policymakers
Our Leadership

Robert Engle
Co-Director
Michael Armellino Professor of Management and Financial Services

Richard Berner
Co-Director
Clinical Professor of Management Practice in Finance

Initiatives
Our research focuses on emerging forms of risk including climate risk, geopolitical risk, cyber risk as well as new topics in financial risk.
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Events
The Volatility and Risk Institute hosts several Quantitative Finance and Econometrics seminars (QFE), as well as an annual conferences
Our upcoming events
V-Lab
The Volatility Laboratory (V-Lab) provides real time measurement, modeling and forecasting of financial volatility and correlations for a wide spectrum of assets.
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