Graduates
| The list of students who have graduated since 2006 |
2022
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Patrick Eugster | A | Forecasting with Technical and Sentiment Analysis | Thorsten Hens | Self-employed economist and president of "Renteninitiative", Winterthur, CH |
| Florian Heeb | A | Three Essays on the Impact of Sustainable Investing | Marc Chesney | Postdoctoral researcher, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge (MA), USA |
| Sean Hofland | A | New Approaches to Modelling Individual Decisions under Uncertainty | Helga Fehr | Data specialist, d-tail family office, Wollerau, CH |
| Alexander Smirnow | A | Risk Measures and their Applications in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | |
| Urban Ulrych | B | Applications of Statistical Learning in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | Postdoctoral researcher, EPFL |
2021
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Marlon Azinovic | B | Essays on Computational Macro-Finance | Felix Kübler | Postdoctoral Researcher, Econ Department, UZH |
| Olga Briukhova | B | Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Stability Regulation | Stefano Battiston | Senior Consultant, Finyon AG, Zurich |
| Marco Ceccarelli | B | Essays on Sustainable Finance | Alexander Wagner | Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Maastricht, NL |
| Gianluca De Nard | A | Asset Return Prediction and Covariance Matrix Estimation for Portfolio Selection in Large Dimensions | Markus Leippold | Senior Quantitative Researcher, OLZ AG, Zurich, and Post-Doctoral Researcher, DBF, UZH |
| Dietmar Dorn | B | Corporate Market Timing and Short-Sale Constraints | Per Östberg | PwC, Valuation and Modelling, Zurich |
| Gazi Kabas | B | Essays on Household Finance and Empirical Banking | Steven Ongena | Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, NL |
| Jonathan Krakow | A | Information Disclosure, Competition, and Sustainability in Retail Financial Markets | Marc Chesney | Consultant Risk Advisory - Sustainable Finance, Deloitte, Oslo, Norway |
| Philipp Lentner | B | The effect of monetary policy on covered bonds | Kjell Nyborg | Assistant Professor, WU Vienna, Austria |
| Mrinal Mishra | B | How Does Financial Intermediation Respond to Varied Shocks? | Steven Ongena | Post-Doctoral Researcher at DBF, UZH |
| Kuchulain O'Flynn | B | Essays on the Impact of Financial Markets on Traditional Banking | Steven Ongena | Senior Consultant, PwC Switzerland |
| Yushi Peng | B | Applications of New Empirical IO in Banking and Real Estate Economics | Michel Habib | Post-Doctoral Researcher, London School of Economics, UK |
| Stefano Ramelli | A | Finance in the Climate Crisis: Preferences, Policies, and Prospects | Alexander Wagner | Assistant Professor, University St. Gallen |
| Alan Roncoroni | A | Risk and opportunities in the context of the low-carbon transition: a financial network approach | Stefano Battiston | Post-Doctoral Researcher at DBF, UZH |
| Felix Stang | A | Essays on Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Contagion in a Financial Network | Markus Leippold | Sanitas Health Insurance, Zurich |
2020
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Andrada Bilan | B | Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Market Frictions | Steven Ongena | Research Economist, Swiss National Bank |
| Yunhao He | B | Essays on Factor Asset Pricing | Markus Leippold | Junior Quant Trader at IMC Trading, Amsterdam |
| Lena Hörnlein | A | Financing the energy transition - The impact of a changing power sector on investor | Marc Chesney | Investment Analyst, InvestInvent AG |
| Alexandra Janssen | A | Expectations, Fear, and Returns in Currency Markets | Thorsten Hens | Ecofin Portfolio Solutions AG, Zurich |
| Egor Maslov | B | Essays in Financial Integration, Firm Dynamics and Risk Sharing | Mathias Hoffmann | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, UZH |
| Ludovic Mathys | A | American-Type Exotic Options and Risk Management in Lévy-Driven Markets | Walter Farkas | Equity Derivatives Trader, UBS AG |
| Luca Mazzone | B | Leverage, Business Cycles and Human Capital Accumulation | Felix Kübler | Economist in the EP Program, International Monetary Fund, Washington |
| Chiara Perillo | A | A macro-financial network perspective to policy analysis | Stefano Battiston | Research Economist, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Michael Schnetzer | A | Essays on Institutional Asset Management | Thorsten Hens | Senior Research Analyst, Vita Sammelstiftung |
| Steven Schärer | A | Three Essays on Financial Engineering | Markus Leippold | Vice President Quant Strats, Credit Suisse, Zürich |
| Hanlin Yang | A | Learning and Systematic Investing | Markus Leippold | Delta One Strats, China International Capital Corporation, Hong Kong |
2019
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Kathrin DeGreiff | B | Essays on the Link of Climate Change and the Banking Sector | Jean-Charles Rochet | Credit Suisse, Zurich |
| Fulvia Fringuellotti | B | Three Essays on Bank Lending | Steven Ongena | Federal Reserve Bank, New York |
| Runjie (Roger) Geng | B | Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing | Felix Kübler | Assistant Professor, International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF), Moscow |
| Regina Hammerschmid | B | Essays on the Pricing of Commodity and Currency Returns | Thorsten Hens | Quantitative Analyst, Researcher and Risk Specialist, UBS |
| Lilia Mukhlynina | A | Essays on Valuation, Investments, and Asset Pricing | Kjell Nyborg | Post-Doctoral Researcher, DBF |
| Vladimir Petrov | A | Essays on Directional-Change Intrinsic Time | Stefano Battiston | Strategic Project Manager, Lykke |
| Adriano Tosi | B | Essays in Systematic Asset Pricing | Steven Ongena | Morgan Stanley, QIS, London |
| Carlos Vargas | A | Essays in Sustainable Finance | Marc Chesney | Assistant Professor, EGADE Business School, Mexico |
2018
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Simone Bernardi | A | Three Essays on Regulatory, Market, and Estimation Risk | Markus Leippold | Associate Director, UBS |
| Dominika Kryczka | B | Recursive Equilibria in Non-Optimal Financial Economies | Felix Kübler | |
| Ferdinand Langnickel | A | Essays in Behavioral Finance | Thorsten Hens | Senior Data Scientist, BCG GAMMA |
| Inke Nyborg | A | Wie Banknoten Bargeld wurden. Geld und Notenbanken in der Schweiz im langen 19. Jahrhundert | Urs Birchler | DBF, UZH |
| Thomas Richter | B | Trading, Liquidity and Regulation in Sovereign Bond Markets | Per Östberg | UBS, Quantitative Risk Specialist |
| Roger Rüegg | A | Essays on Active Investing | Markus Leippold | Portfolio Manager, ZKB |
| Anastasiia Sokko | B | Essays in Behavioural Financial Markets and Asset Pricing | Thorsten Hens |
2017
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Amelie Brune | A | Three Essays on Economic Crises | Thorsten Hens | Swiss National Bank |
| Andrin Bögli | C | Essays on the Economics of Deception and Debt | Alexander Wagner | Senior Consultant, Oliver Wyman |
| Felix Fattinger | A | The Pricing of Uncertain Information: From the Lab, to Derivatives Markets, to State-contingent Sovereign Debt | Marc Chesney | Assistant Professor, WU Vienna and the VGSF |
| Lucas Marc Fuhrer | A | Three Essays on Money and Liquidity | Kjell Nyborg | SNB, Senior Economist |
| Nina Gotthelf | A | Three Essays on Media Content and Financial Markets | Thorsten Hens | |
| René Hegglin | A | Three Essays on Empirical Banking | Urs Birchler | DBF Managing Director, Head of Administration |
| Andreas Ita | A | Essays in Corporate Finance | Alexander Wagner | Executive Director, UBS AG |
| Elisabeth Megally | B | Three Essays on Managerial Compensation | Michel Habib | |
| Ivan Petzev | A | Essays in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance | Alexander Wagner | Swiss Rock Asset Management AG |
| Cornelia Rösler | B | Three Essays on the Interbank Market | Kjell Nyborg | Accenture |
| Peter Schmidt | A | Essays on Financial Market Efficiency | Alexander Wagner | Lecturer, University of Bern |
| Jiri Woschitz | A | Three Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets | Kjell Nyborg | PostDoc, DBF |
| Quan Zhang | B | Limits of Arbitrage and Collateral Constraints | Felix Kübler | tenure-track Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Lancaster University |
2016
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Sabine Elmiger | B | On the Robustness of Consumption-Based Asset Pricing | Thorsten Hens | DBF, UZH |
| Diana Festl-Pell | A | Essays on Banking, Governance and Sustainability | Urs Birchler | Professor of Finance & Accounting, Karlshochschule International University |
| Diego Ostinelli | A | Financial markets, Innovation, and Acquisitions | Michel Habib | Prop Trading Desk, Banca IMI |
| Jakub Rojček | B | Market Quality and Price Impact of High-Frequency Trading and its Regulation | Thorsten Hens | LGT Capital Partners, Zurich |
| Bruno Troja | A | Essays on Optimal Investments in the Mitigation of Global Warming | Marc Chesney | Financial Controller/Business Analyst at II-VI Laser Enterprise, Zurich |
| Nikola Vasiljevic | B | Option Pricing and Market Risk Management in the Presence of Jump Risk | Markus Leippold | Credit Suisse, Zurich |
2015
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Meike Bradbury | A | Improved Investment Advice Through Risk Simulation | Thorsten Hens | Credit Suisse |
| Michele Doronzo | A | Empirical Essays on Risky Assets, Asset Allocation and Emission Certificates | Marc Paolella | Swiss Re Asset Management |
| Manish Gupta | A | Three Essays in Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Finance | Thorsten Hens | Assistant Professor in Finance, Nottingham University Business School |
| Meriton Ibraimi | A | Essays on Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Systemic Risk Modeling | Markus Leippold | Ernst & Young |
| Markus Ludwig | A | Three Essays on Option Implied Information | Markus Leippold | Scout24, Munich |
| Anca Claudia Pana | A | Contributions to the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation | Marc Chesney | PostDoc, Harvard, Department of Environmental Economics and Public Policy |
| Falko Paetzold | A | Three Essays on Sustainable Investing in Private Wealth Management | Marc Chesney | CSP, Department of Banking and Finance |
| Remo Stössel | A | Risk Assessment and Risk Communication in Theory and Practice | Thorsten Hens | |
| Lujing Su | B | Three Essays on Market Frictions | Markus Leippold | Senior Analyst, Deutsche Bank |
| Boris Wälchli | A | Essays on Nonaffine Option Pricing and Random Forests in the Fields of Finance | Walter Farkas | PostDoc, DBF |
2014
| PhD Student | Track | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
| Fabian Ackermann | A | Three Essays on the Efficiency of Selected Financial Markets | Karl Schmedders | Head of Quant Portfolio Management, Zürcher Kantonalbank |
| Chris Bardgett | B | Volatility and correlation modelling for equity indices | Markus Leippold | Quantitative Analyst, UBS, London |
| Dominic Burkhardt | B | Three Essays in Asset Pricing | Henrik Hasseltoft | |
| Nilufer Caliskan | B | Essays in Asset Pricing Anomalies | Thorsten Hens | Kieger AG, Director of Research and Portfolio Construction |
| Ethem Güney | B | Essays in Banking and Finance | Jean-Charles Rochet | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
| Robert Huitema | A | Essays in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | UBS, Associate Director |
| Jochen Krause | A | Mixture Models in Financial Risk Modeling | Marc Paolella | PostDoc, DBF |
| Dörte Kreher | B | Strict Local Martingales, Random Times and Non-Standard Changes of Probability Measure in Financial Mathematics | Ashkan Nikeghbali | PostDoc, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
| Ombretta Marchiodi | A | Essays on Real Options, R & D, Empirical Applications to the Pharmaceutical Industry | Marc Chesney | Novartis |
| Felix Matthys | A | Three Essays in Quantitative Finance | Markus Leippold | Assistant Professor at ITAM, Mexico |
| Tatjana Puhan | B | Essays in Finance | Marc Chesney | Swiss Life Asset Management |
| Kristoph Steikert | B | The Weighted Nadaraya-Watson Estimator: Strong Consistency Results, Rates of Convergence, and a Local Bootstrap Procedure to Select the Bandwidth | Felix Kübler | Quantitative Analyst, Credit Suisse |
| Suzanne Ziegler | A | Bankinsolvenz und Einlegerschutz - Analyse und Beurteilung der Entwicklung in der Schweiz | Urs Birchler | Professor Banking & Finance, ZHAW |
2013
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Erdinc Akyildirim | Essays in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey | |
| Elise Gourier | Affine and Quadratic Models for Volatility and Interest Rates Markets | Markus Leippold | Queen Mary University of London | |
| Pawel Polak | Forecasting Financial Returns Under Non-Elliptical Distributions with Applications to Portfolio Allocation and Risk Management | Marc Paolella | Columbia University, New York | |
| Nikolay Ryabkov | Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Systematic Ambiguity | Alexandre Ziegler | OMERS Capital Markets | |
| Zexi Wang | Three Essays on Corporate Cash Policy and Financial Markets | Kjell Nyborg | University of Bern |
2012
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Mario Häfeli | Banking regulation: liquidity measures, capital requirements and deposit insurance | Paolo Vanini | Highschool Teacher, Zurich | |
| Benjamin Jonen | Essays on Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice | Felix Kübler | Swiss Life Asset Management, Zurich | |
| Matthias Jüttner | Systemic Relevance in Financial Markets and Manufacturing Networks | Paolo Vanini | Swiss National Bank | |
| Mustafa Karaman | Essays in Econometrics of Financial Asset Pricing Models | Loriano Mancini | UBS, Zurich | |
| Gabriel Neukomm | Three essays on capital structure and structured finance | Alexander Wagner | PricewaterhouseCoopers, Zurich | |
| Maria Putintseva | Three Essays on Forecasting and Information Acquisition in Finance | Marc Paolella | Nationale Suisse, Basel | |
| Jacob Stromberg | Essays on the Pricing and Modeling of Derivatives and Risk-Taking Incentives | Marc Chesney | UBS, Zurich |
2011
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Marc Arnold | Essays on Credit Risk | Alexander Wagner | University of St. Gallen | |
| Jan Wrampelmeyer | Ambiguity, Illiquidity, and Hedge Funds: An Analysis of Recent Developments and Current Research Topics in Post-Crisis Financial Markets | Loriano Mancini | University of St. Gallen |
2010
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Remo Crameri | Three essays inferring prospective and retrospective information based on options trading activities and a new theoretical approach on multivariate subordination of Lévy processes | Marc Chesney | UBS AG | |
| Evgeny Plaksen | Empire Building in Firms Going Public: How Early Do We Discover the Problem |
Michel Habib | McKinsey, Basel | |
| Urs Schweri | Life-Cycles of Firms | Thorsten Hens | Schulleitung Schneisingen | |
| Songtao Wang | Optimal Capital Structure and Yield Spreads under Liquidity Risk | Rajna Gibson | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
2009
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Matteo Bonato | Multivariate volatility modeling and forecasting with stable GARCH and Wishart Autoregressive models | Marc Paolella | UBS, Zurich | |
| Gorazd Brumen | The Effects of Networks and Informations on Asset Prices | Rajna Gibson | Morgan Stanley Risk Management Group, London | |
| Mihnea Constantinescu | Risk and return in the Swiss property market | Thorsten Hens | Bank of Lithuania | |
| Luca Taschini | An Empirical and Theoretical Study on Emission Permits | Marc Chesney | London School of Economics |
2008
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Ganna Reshetar | Assessing and Managing Operational Risk with a Special Emphasis on Terrorism Risk |
Marc Chesney | Deloitte, Zurich | |
| Bogdan Stacescu | Three Essays on Payout Policy | Michel Habib | BI Norwegian School of Management |
2007
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Kremena Bachmann-Damianova | Corporate Financial Reporting and Disclosure. A Behavioral Finance Perspective |
Thorsten Hens | UZH | |
| Benoit Metayer | Non - Standard Issues in Credit Risk Management | Rajna Gibson | Barclays Wealth, London | |
| Florian Peters | Essays in Corporate Finance | Michel Habib | University of Amsterdam | |
| Martin Vlcek | Individual Trading Behavior: The Disposition Effect | Thorsten Hens | Banque Cantonale Vaudoise |
2006
| PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment | |
| Carsten Murawski | Essays in Financial Economics | Rajna Gibson | University of Melbourne | |
| Rina Rosenblatt- Wisch | Optimal Growth under Loss Aversion | Thorsten Hens | Swiss National Bank |