Leuven Lecture and Cote d'Or Chocolate
At 8:30am we started our second full day in Belgium with breakfast at the Leuven Irish College. Following breakfast we attended a finance lecture with Prof. Piet Sercu of KU Leuven. Since there are many of us who are Ag-Finance or Finance majors we found the lecture to be very beneficial. Prof. Sercu talked about topics including speculation, minimizing bid-ask spreads, futures and forward rates, and comparing spreads across currency. The presentation introduced material that was new to some, and had an interesting international twist on what others already knew from their education.