Public Thesis Defenses
2022
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Florian Heeb | Three Essays on the Impact of Sustainable Investing | KOL-F-123 | 24.08.2022 3:00pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Patrick Eugster | Forecasting with Technical and Sentiment Analysis | KOL-G-212 | 22.08.2022 3:00pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Sean Hofland | New Approaches to Modelling Individual Decisions under Uncertainty | KOL-E-18 | 22.08.2022 10:00am |
Helga Fehr | |
| Alexander Smirnow | Risk Measures and their Applications in Quantitative Finance | KOL-F-101, and online |
23.06.2022 4:00pm |
Walter Farkas | |
| Urban Ulrych | Applications of Statistical Learning in Quantitative Finance | KOL-G-217, and online |
03.03.2022 4:00pm |
Walter Farkas |
2021
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Olga Briukhova | Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Stability Regulation | KOL-G-204, and online |
21.10.2021 09:00am |
Stefano Battiston | |
| Dietmar Dorn | Corporate Market Timing and Short-Sale Constraints | Webinar | 15.10.2021 10:00am |
Per Östberg | |
| Mrinal Mishra | How Does Financial Intermediation Respond to Varied Shocks? | KOL-G-204, and online |
09.09.2021 2:00pm |
Steven Ongena | |
| Kuchulain O'Flynn | Essays on the Impact of Financial Markets on Traditional Banking | Webinar | 09.09.2021 12:00 |
Steven Ongena | |
| Philipp Lentner | The effect of monetary policy on covered bonds | Webinar | 23.08.2021 10:00am |
Kjell Nyborg | |
| Gazi Kabas | Essays on Household Finance and Empirical Banking | Webinar | 13.08.2021 10:00am |
Steven Ongena | |
| Marlon Azinovic | Essays on Computational Macro-Finance | Webinar | 29.07.2021 3:00pm |
Felix Kübler | |
| Marco Ceccarelli | Essays on Sustainable Finance | Webinar | 14.07.2021 2:00pm |
Alexander Wagner | |
| Gianluca De Nard | Asset Return Prediction and Covariance Matrix Estimation for Portfolio Selection in Large Dimensions | Webinar | 16.06.2021 12:00 |
Markus Leippold | |
| Yushi Peng | Applications of New Empirical IO in Banking and Real Estate Economics | Webinar | 21.05.2021 10:00am |
Michel Habib | |
| Stefano Ramelli | Finance in the Climate Crisis: Preferences, Policies, and Prospects | Webinar | 16.04.2021 9:00am |
Alexander Wagner | |
| Felix Stang | Essays on Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Contagion in a Financial Network | Webinar | 26.02.2021 4:00pm |
Markus Leippold | |
| Jonathan Krakow | Information Disclosure, Competition, and Sustainability in Retail Financial Markets | Webinar | 04.02.2021 2:00pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Alan Roncoroni | Risk and opportunities in the context of the low-carbon transition: a financial network approach | Webinar | 15.01.2021 2:00pm |
Stefano Battiston |
2020
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Alexandra Janssen | Expectations, Fear, and Returns in Currency Markets | Webinar | 18.12.2020 4:15pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Hanlin Yang | Learning and Systematic Investing | Webinar | 03.11.2020 10:00am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Chiara Perillo | A macro-financial network perspective to policy analysis | Webinar | 11.09.2020 10:30am |
Stefano Battiston | |
| Egor Maslov | Essays in Financial Integration, Firm Dynamics and Risk Sharing | Webinar | 28.08.2020 4:00pm |
Mathias Hoffmann | |
| Steven Schärer | Three Essays on Financial Engineering | Webinar | 04.06.2020 3:00pm |
Markus Leippold | |
| Luca Mazzone | Leverage, Business Cycles and Human Capital Accumulation | Webinar | 28.05.2020 6:00pm |
Felix Kübler | |
| Michael Schnetzer | Essays on Institutional Asset Management | Webinar | 13.05.2020 5:00pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Ludovic Mathys | American-Type Exotic Options and Risk Management in Lévy-Driven Markets | Webinar | 29.04.2020 4:00pm |
Walter Farkas | |
| Yunhao He | Essays on Factor Asset Pricing | Webinar | 23.04.2020 10:00am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Andrada Bilan | Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Market Frictions | Webinar | 19.03.2020 4:30pm |
Steven Ongena | |
| Lena Hörnlein | Financing the energy transition - The impact of a changing power sector on investors | PLD-E-04 | 20.01.2020 10:00am |
Marc Chesney |
2019
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Vladimir Petrov | Essays on Directional-Change Intrinsic Time | PLD-E-04 | 20.09.2019 10:00am |
Stefano Battiston | |
| Runjie Geng | Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing | KO2-F-156 | 19.09.2019 13:00pm |
Felix Kübler | |
| Carlos Vargas | Essays in Sustainable Finance | PLD-E-04 | 12.07.2019 11:00am |
Marc Chesney | |
| Kathrin DeGreiff | Essays on the Link of Climate Change and the Banking Sector | KO2-F-155 | 26.06.2019 9:00am |
Jean-Charles Rochet | |
| Lilia Mukhlynina | Essays on Valuation, Investments, and Asset Pricing | KOL-G-220 | 12.06.2019 3:00pm |
Kjell Nyborg | |
| Adriano Tosi | Essays in Systematic Asset Pricing | KOL-G-217 | 07.06.2019 11:30am |
Steven Ongena | |
| Fulvia Fringuellotti | Three Essays on Bank Lending | HG-D-22 | 07.06.2019 2:00pm |
Steven Ongena | |
| Regina Hammerschmid | Essays on the Pricing of Commodity and Currency Returns | KOL-G-212 | 30.04.2019 3:00pm |
Thorsten Hens |
2018
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Thomas Richter | Trading, Liquidity and Regulation in Sovereign Bond Markets | KOL-G-212 | 19.12.2018 2:00pm |
Per Östberg | |
| Roger Rüegg | Essays on Active Investing | KOL-H-321 | 29.11.2018 12:15pm |
Markus Leippold | |
| Inke Nyborg | Wie Banknoten Bargeld wurden. Geld und Notenbanken in der Schweiz im langen 19. Jahrhundert | KO2-F-156 | 06.11.2018 3:00pm |
Urs Birchler | |
| Ferdinand Langnickel | Essays in Behavioral Finance | KOL-G-220 | 08.06.2018 09:00am |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Dominika Kryczka | Recursive equilibria in non-optimal financial economies | KOL-G-212 | 16.04.2018 2:00pm |
Felix Kübler | |
| Simone Bernardi | Three Essays on Regulatory, Market, and Estimation Risk | KOL-N-1-EV | 27.03.2018 10:00am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Anastasiia Sokko | Essays in Behavioural Financial Markets and Asset Pricing | KOL-G-212 | 12.01.2018 2:00pm |
Thorsten Hens |
2017
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Quan Zhang | Limits of Arbitrage and Collateral Constraints | HG-D16.2 | 24.10.2017 2:00pm |
Felix Kübler | |
| René Hegglin | Three Essays on Empirical Banking | KOL-H-317 | 25.09.2017 4:00pm |
Urs Birchler | |
| Peter Schmidt | Essays on Financial Market Efficiency | KOL-F-123 | 22.09.2017 4:00pm |
Alexander Wagner | |
| Felix Fattinger | The Pricing of Uncertain Information: From the Lab, to Derivatives Markets, to State-contingent Sovereign Debt | HG-D22 | 22.09.2017 1:45pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Andrin Bögli | Essays on the Economics of Deception and Debt | HG-D22 | 31.08.2017 4:00pm |
Alexander Wagner | |
| Ivan Petzev | Essays in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance | HG-D22 | 30.08.2017 4:00pm |
Alexander Wagner | |
| Amelie Brune | Three Essays on Economic Crises | KOL-E-18 | 22.08.2017 11:00am |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Cornelia Rösler | Three Essays on the Interbank Market | KOL-F-109 | 21.08.2017 10:00am |
Kjell Nyborg | |
| Jiri Woschitz | Three Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets | KOL-E-18 | 16.08.2017 2:00pm |
Kjell Nyborg | |
| Nina Gotthelf | Three Essays on Media Content and Financial Markets | KOL-N-1 | 21.06.2017 5:30pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Elisabeth Megally | Three Essays on Managerial Compensation | KOL-F-103 | 19.06.2017 1:30pm |
Michel Habib | |
| Lucas Marc Fuhrer | Three Essays on Money and Liquidity | KOL-G-217 | 24.05.2017 2pm |
Kjell Nyborg | |
| Andreas Ita | Essays in Corporate Finance | KO2-F-152 | 21.02.2017 1:15pm |
Alexander Wagner |
2016
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Sabine Elmiger | On the Robustness of Consumption-Based Asset Pricing | KOL-G-212 | 10.11.2016 11:00am |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Diego Ostinelli | Financial markets, Innovation, and Acquisitions | KO2-F-152 | 03.10.2016 4:00pm |
Michel Habib | |
| Jakub Rojček | Market Quality and Price Impact of High-Frequency Trading and its Regulation | KOL-G-212 | 12.07.2016 4:00pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Diana Festl-Pell | Essays on Banking, Governance and Sustainability | PLD-E-06 | 08.06.2016 10:30am |
Urs Birchler | |
| Nikola Vasiljevic | Option Pricing and Market Risk Management in the Presence of Jump Risk | KOL-G-209 | 13.04.2016 10:30am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Bruno Troja | Essays on Optimal Investments in the Mitigation of Global Warming | PLD-E-06 | 24.02.2016 3:15pm |
Marc Chesney |
2015
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Boris Wälchli | Essays on Nonaffine Option Pricing and Random Forests in the Fields of Finance | PLD-E-06 | 25.11.2015 2pm |
Walter Farkas | |
| Michele Doronzo | Empirical Essays on Risky Assets, Asset Allocation and Emission Certificates | PLD-E-06 | 22.09.2015 5pm |
Marc Paolella | |
| Remo Stössel | Risk Assessment and Risk Communication in Theory and Practice | KOL-E-13 | 28.08.2015 4pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Anca Claudia Pana | Contributions to the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation | PLD-E-06 | 18.08.2015 2:30pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Meike Bradbury | Improved Investment Advice Through Risk Simulation | KOL-E-13 | 17.08.2015 4pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Manish Gupta | Three Essays in Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Finance | KOL-F-109 | 10.07.2015 4pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Meriton Ibraimi | Essays on Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Systemic Risk Modeling | PLD-E-04 | 06.05.2015 10am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Falko Paetzold | Three Essays on Sustainable Investing in Private Wealth Management | PLD-E-06 | 27.02.2015 3pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Markus Ludwig | Three Essays on Option Implied Information | PLM-103/104 | 23.02.2015 11am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Lujing Su | Three Essays on Market Frictions | PLD-E-04 | 29.01.2015 10:30am |
Markus Leippold |
2014
| PhD Candidate | Topic | Location | Date & Time | Main advisor | |
| Dominic Burkhardt | Three Essays in Asset Pricing | FRE-D-14 | 31.10.2014 3pm |
Henrik Hasseltoft | |
| Tatjana Puhan | Essays in Finance | PLD-E-06 | 19.09.2014 3pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Suzanne Ziegler-Peter | Bankinsolvenz und Einlegerschutz - Analyse und Beurteilung der Entwicklung in der Schweiz | PLD-E-06 | 18.09.2014 9am |
Urs Birchler | |
| Nilufer Caliskan | Essays in Asset Pricing Anomalies | PLD-E-04 | 16.09.2014 6:15pm |
Thorsten Hens | |
| Felix Matthys | Three Essays in Quantitative Finance | KOL-N-1/2 | 09.09.2014 11am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Robert Huitema | Essays in Quantitative Finance | 29.08.2014 | Walter Farkas | ||
| Ethem Güney | Essays in Banking and Finance | PLD-E-04 | 08.07.2014 2pm |
Jean-Charles Rochet | |
| Kristoph Steikert | The Weighted Nadaraya-Watson Estimator: Strong Consistency Results, Rates of Convergence, and a Local Bootstrap Procedure to Select the Bandwidth | PLD-E-04 | 25.04.2014 2pm |
Felix Kübler | |
| Dörte Kreher | Strict Local Martingales, Random Times and Non-Standard Changes of Probability Measure in Financial Mathematics | Y27-H28 | 21.03.2014 2pm |
Ashkan Nikeghbali | |
| Chris Bardgett | Volatility and correlation modelling for equity indices | KOL-G-212 | 19.03.2014 11am |
Markus Leippold | |
| Fabian Ackermann | Three Essays on the Efficiency of Selected Financial Markets |
MOO-E-006 | 03.03.2014 4:15pm |
Karl Schmedders | |
| Ombretta Marchiodi | Essays on Real Options, R & D, Empirical Applications to the Pharmaceutical Industry | PLD-E-04 | 03.03.2014 4:30pm |
Marc Chesney | |
| Jochen Krause | Mixture Models in Financial Risk Modeling | 12.02.2014 | Marc Paolella |