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10th Conference
Zürich SWX Swiss Exchange
March 30, 2007

Keynote Speech by Dr. Thomas Vock, President of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research

SESSION A
A1 Credit Risk I
Holger Kraft and Mogens Steffensen Bankruptcy, Counterparty Risk, and Contagion download
Thomas Moosbrucker Copulas from Infinitely Divisible Distributions - Applications to Credit Value at Risk download
Julia Hein Optimization of Credit Enhancements in Collateralized Loan Obligations: The Role of Loss Allocation and Reserve Account download
A2 Credit Risk II  
Christina Bannier and Dennis Hänsel Determinants of Banks' Engagement in Loan Securization download
Michael Kunisch and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg Modelling Simultaneous Defaults: A Top-Down Approach download
Chulwoo Han Conditional Value-at-Risk Optimization within an Extended CreditRisk+ Framework download
A3 Credit Risk III  
Rainer Jankowitsch, Kurt Hornik, Manuel Lingo, Stefan Pichler and Gerhard Winkler Validation of Credit Rating Systems Using Multiple-Rater Information download
André Güttler Conditional Rating Transitions: The Case of S&P and Moody's download
Irmhild Kuehn and Andreas Pfingsten White Noise in Internal Ratings - The Impact on Banks' Basel II Capital Requirements download
A4 Risk Management
Norman Seeger and Burkhart Mönch Hedging Options in Illiquid Markets download
Markus Leippold, Daniel Egloff and Liuren Wu Variance Risk Dynamics, Variance Risk Premia, and Optimal Variance Swap Investments download
Antje Mahayni and Nicole Branger Tractable Hedging with Additional Hedge Instruments download
SESSION B  
B1 Derivatives I  
Beate Breuer, Nicole Branger and Christian Schlag Optimal Derivative Strategies with Discrete Rebalancing download
Matthias Muck and Frank Guse Jump Risk Premia Implicit in DAX Options - A Note on Implied State GMM Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Jump Diffusion Models download
Max Melnikov A Note on the Green's Function Approach to the Black-Scholes Equation download
B2 Derivatives II  
Mark Cummins and Bernard Murphy Testing Alternative Affine Jump-Diffusion Models in the S&P 500 Index Options Market download
Aksel Mjøs and Svein-Arne Persson Callable Risky Perpetual Debt: Options, Pricing and Bankruptcy Implications download
Christian Schlag, Nicole Branger and Beate Breuer Discrete-Time Implementation of Continiuous-Time Portfolio Strategies download
B3 Corporate Finance I    
Hannes Wagner Equity Issuances and the Scope for Market Timing download
Axel Kind, Benita von Lindeiner and Andrea Vedolin A Principal-Agent View on Dividend Taxation and Investment Efficiency download
André Betzer and Daniel Metzger Event Study and Financial Performance Studies in Merger Assessment - Substitutes or Complements? download
B4 Corporate Finance II     
Sudi Sudarsanam and Binsheng Qian Catering Theory of Corporate Spinoffs: Empirical Evidence from Europe download
Gunnar Grass and Philipp N. Bäcker Wealth Transfer or Wealth Destruction: Can Contingent-Claims Analysis Explain the Conglomerate Discount download
Dirk Sturz and Hans-Peter Burghof Stock Dividends and the Free Cash Flow Hypothesis download
SESSION C 
C1 Empirical Finance I     
Igor Pouchkarev and Thierry Post The Cross-sectional Distribution of Portfolio Returns: Formalizing the Dartboard Portfolio Approach to Performance Evaluation download
Marcel Tyrell and Baris Serifsoy Investment Behavior of Stock Exchanges and the Rationale for Demutualization - Theory and Empirical Evidence download
Mia Holmfeld and Marcus Larson Analyzing the Impact of Jumps to Price Variation: A VAR Approach with Evidence from Sweden download
C2 Empirical Finance II    
Ah Boon Sim, David Colwell and Yan Liu The Effect of Intangible Assets on Jumps in Stock Returns download
Jaroslaw Morawski, Roland Füss and Heinz Rehkugler The Nature of Listed Real Estate Companies - Property or Equity Market? download
Andrea Cipollini and Guiseppe Missaglia Dynamic Factor Analysis of Industry Sector Default Rates and Implication for Portfolio Credit Risk Modelling download
C3  Market Microstructure   
Stephan Kessler and Manuel Amman Intra-Day Characteristics of Stock Price Crashes download
Evangelos Giouvris and Emilios C. Galariotis Systematic Liquidity and Excess Returns: Evidence from the London Stock Exchange download
Ryosuke Wada Stochastic Structure of Volume and Volatility in Brokered FX Market download
C4 Behavioral Finance   
Sylvain Marsat Herding Behaviour and Investment Choice: An Experimental Approach download
Christian Schlag, Nicole Branger and Lue Wu Rational Laymen versus Over-Confident Experts: Who Survives in the Long Run? download
Thorsten Hens and Peter Wöhrmann Mental Accounting and the Equity Premium Puzzle download

SESSION D                 

   
D1 Asset Valuation I      
Christian Conrad and Enno Mammen A Specification Test for a Class of GARCH-in-Mean Models download
Michael Stamos, Wolfram Horneff and Raimond Maurer Optimal Gradual Annuitization: Quantifying the Costs of Switching to Annuities download
Marian Berneburg Excess Volatility in European Equity Style Indices - New Evidence download
D2 Asset Valuation II    
Andreas Schrimpf, Michael Schröder and Richard Stehle Cross-sectional Tests of Conditional Asset Pricing Models: Evidence from the German Stock Market download

Yannick Malevergne and Didier Sornette

Heavy-tail Distribution of Firms' Capitalisations, Lack of Diversification and the Pricing Anomalies download
Christian Klein and Bernhard Zwergel On the Predictive Power of Sentiment - Why Institutional Investors are Worh their Prey download
 D3 Asset Management I    
Juerg Tobler How Well Can Multi-manager Funds Diversify? download
Peter Meier, Michael Bretscher and Andreas Ruckstuhl Style Analysis for Funds of Hedge Funds with Lasso download
Hans Sauer Non-Local Information Effects of a Securities Portfolio by Quantum Information Logic download
D4 Asset Management II       
Wolfgang Breuer and Marc Gürtler Performance Evaluation for Mutual Funds, Skewness Preferences, and Two-Fund Separation download
Ralf Seiz, Manuel Amman and Axel Kind What Drives the Performance of US Convertible Bond Funds? download
Stefan Prigge The Performance of Measures of Shareholder Influence download
SESSION E
E1 Corporate Governance I 
Claudio Loderer and Urs Waelchli Protecting Minority Investors: Listed versus Unlisted Firms download
Christoph Becker, Wolfgang Bessler and Daniil Wagner The Design and Success of Stock Option Plans for New Economy Firms: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings in Germany download
Stefan Rünzi and Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal Stock Market Returns of Firms With Managerial Ownership - A Solution to the CEO Stockholdings Puzzler download
E2 Banking I  
Christoph Memmel, Christian Schmieder, Ingrid Stein Relationship Banking - Empirical Evidence for Germany download
Oliver Entrop, Hendrik Scholz and Marco Wilkens The Price-setting Behavior of Banks: An Analysis of Open-end Leverage Certificates on the German Market download
Diemo Dietrich and Uwe Vollmer Internationalization Strategies: The Role of Bank Capital Regulation download
E3 Corporate Governance II 
Andrea Schertler and Tereza Tykvová Rivals or Partners? Evidence from Europe’s International Private Equity Deals download
Sudi Sudarsanam and Jian Huang Managerial Incentives and Overconfidence: Impact on Risk-taking and Acquirer Value Creation in Mergers and Acquisitions download
Alexander Wagner Board Independence as Strategic Behavior download
E4  Banking II  
Günseli Tümer-Alkan, Steven Ongena and Natalija v. Westernhagen Creditor Concentration: An Empirical Investigation download
Rainer Haselmann and Paul Wachtel Institutions and Bank Behavior download
Felix Schwarze Relationship Banking and Bank Profitability download
SESSION F  
F1 International Finance      
Michael Flad Do Macrofactors Help Forecasting Stock Market Volatility? download
Philipp Koziol and Olaf Korn Does Prospect Theory Explain the Disposition Effect? download
Jianxin Wang and Minxian Wang Asymmetric Volatility in the Foreign Exchange Markets download
F2 Finance & Economics     
Marc-Gregor Czaja, Hendrik Scholz and Marco Wilkens Interest Rate Risk of German Financial Institutions – The Impact of Level, Slope, and Curvature of the Term Structure download
Maxim Ulrich Model Uncertainty and Term Premia on Nominal Bonds download
Thomas Nitschka Consumption Growth, Uncovered Equity Parity and the Cross-section of Risk Premia on Foreign Currencies download
F3 Interest Rates  
Zvika Afik and Simon Benninga A Markov Model of Expected Bond Returns download
Albert Lee Chun Expectations, Bond Yields and Monetary Policy download
Carsten Sorensen Interest Rate Uncertainty and Strategic Asset Allocation with Borrowing and Short Sales Constraints download
     

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