The Shanghai New York University is establishing a Volatility Institute, to create opportunities for research on Chinese financial markets and other markets around the world.

The Volatility Institute will be located at the heart of the city's Lujiazui area, China's financial center. It will seek to facilitate collaboration and community-building among market participants and academic researchers within China and abroad.

The institute will help improve global financial markets by providing timely financial information and analysis to academics, practitioners, regulators and policymakers through innovative technology platforms and services, the university announced.

The Shanghai NYU's Volatility Institute will operate in close partnership with the Volatility Institute at the New York University Stern School of Business, which was created by Professor Robert Engle in March 2009, and has worked on developing and disseminating cutting-edge research on risks in global financial markets and in econometrics that are expected to contribute to international financial policy.

wanghongyi@chinadaily.com.cn

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