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11th Conference
Zürich SWX Swiss Exchange
April 11, 2008

Keynote Speech by Dr. Jose Blanco, Head of Asset Allocation EMEA, UBS Global Asset Management

SESSION A
A1 Credit Risk I
Ashay Kadam and Peter Lenk Bayesian Inference for Issuer Heterogeneity in Credit Ratings Migration download
Peter Raupach and Andre Guettler The Impact of Downward Rating Momentum on Credit Portfolio Risk download
Ferdinand Mager and Christian Schmieder Credit Portfolio Analysis and Stress Testing of a Real Portfolio download
A2 Credit Risk II  
Daniel Foos, Lars Norden and Martin Weber Loan Growth and Riskiness of Banks download
Martin Hibbeln, Marc Guertler and Clemens Voehringer Adjusting Multi-Factor Models for Basel II-Consistent Economic Capital download
Dennis Vink and Andre E. Thibeault An Empirical Analysis of Asset-Backed Securitization download
A3 Credit Risk III  
Klaus Duellmann, Jonathan Küll and Michael Kunisch Estimating Asset Correlation from Stock Prices or Default Rates - Which Method is Superior download
John V. Duca Risk and the Use of Collaterized Open Market Paper during the Great Depression download
Leopold Soegner, Paul Schneider and Tanja Veza The Economic Role of Jumps and Recovery Rates in the Market for Corporate Default Risk download
A4 Credit Risk IV
Rainer Jankowitsch, Kurt Hornik, Manuel Lingo, Stefan Pichler and Gerhard Winkler Determinants of Heterogeneity in European Credit Ratings download
Christian Koziol What Makes a Bank Risky? - Insights from the Optimal Capital Structure of Banks download
Hannelore Brandt, Engelbert J. Dockner, Rainer Jankowitsch and Stefan Pichler Choice of Rating Technology and Price Formation in Imperfect Credit Markets download
SESSION B  
B1 Empirical Finance I  
Pierre Bajgrowicz and Oliver Scaillet Technical Trading Revisited: Persistence Test, Transaction Costs and False Discoveries download
Hendrik Scholz, Marco Wilkens and Martin Rohleder Jump Survivorship Bias and Mutual Fund Performance: Relevance, Significance and Methodical Differences download
Olga Kolokolova Hedge Funds' Interlocks and Their Impact on Performance download
B2 Theory of Capital Markets I  
Stefano Bonini, Roberto Bianchini and Laura Zanetti A Target Price Driven Portfolio Strategy download
Wei Sun, Svetlozar Rachev, Stoyan V. Stoyanov and Frank J. Fabozzi Multivariate Skewed Student's t Copula in Analysis of Nonlinear and Asymmetric Dependence in German Equity Markets download
;Michael Stutzer Style Investing and the ICAPM download
B3 Risk Management I    
Gabrielle Wanzenried, Olaf Stotz and Karsten Döhnert Do Fundamental Indexes Produce Higher Risk-Adjusted Returns than Market Cap Indexes? Evidence for European Stock Markets download
Wei Sun, Svetlozar Rachev and Frank J. Fabozzi Determining and Forecasting High-Frequency Value at Risk by Using Lévy Processes download
Andreas Pfingsten, Rolf Boeve and Frederik Hesse The Aggregation of Market Risk and Credit Risk Using Different Copulas: A Simulation Study for Several Risk Measures download
B4 Market Microstructure    
Marc van Achter A Dynamic Limit Order Market with Diversity in Trading Horizons download
Lukas Menkhoff, Carol L. Osler and Maik Schmeling Order-Choice Dynamics under Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Analysis download
Oliver Wuensche, Erik Theissen and Joachim Grammig Time and Price Impact of a Trade: A Structural Approach download
SESSION C 
C1 Derivatives I
Nicole Branger and Beate Breuer The Optimal Demand for Retail Derivatives download
David Horn and Eva Schneider Systematic Risk and Option Prices download
C2 Derivatives Ii
Jos E. van Bommel and Silvia Rossetto Endless Leverage Certificates download
Eva Schneider, Nicole Branger, Christian Schlag and Norman Seeger Using Hedging Errors to Identify Option Pricing Models download
Rainer Baule and Christian Tallau Option Prices of Growth Companies - The Explanatory Power of the Schwartz-Moon Model download
C3  Commodity Markets   
Marcel Prokopczuk and Raphael Paschke Integrating Multiple Commodities in a Model of Stochastic Price Dynamics download
Jens Wimschulte and Jan Marckhoff Locational Price Spreads and the Pricing of Contracts for Difference: Evidence from the Nordic Market download
Isabel Catalina Figuerola-Ferretti and Jesus Gonzalo Modelling and Measuring Price Discovery download
C4 Theory of Capital Markets II
Marc Oliver Rieger Co-Monotonicity of Optimal Investments and the Design of Structured Financial Products download
Marcel Marekwica Portfolio Choice with Tax Loss Carry-Forward download
Peter-Jan Engelen, Wojciech Grabowski and Agnieszka Kawinska Trading Suspensions on an Emerging Market around Corporate Control Transactions download

SESSION D                 

   
D1 Corporate Finance I    
Urs Waelchli CEO and Board Turnover: Causes and Consequences download
Markus Schmid, Daniel Hoechle and Manuel Ammann Is There Really no Conglomerate Discount? download
Robert W. Faff, Xin Chang, Wing Chun Kwok and George Wong Financial Constraints, Mispricing and Corporate Investments download
D2 Corporate Finance II    
Andreas Trauten and Thomas Langer Why the Google IPO Might Stay Exotic - An Experimental Analysis of Offering Mechanisms download

Christian Andres

Family Ownership, Financing Constraints and Investment Decisions download
Marisa Nöldeke and Christoph Jorns Should Firms Really Be Obliged to Provide Financial Interim Reports? download
 D3 Empirical Finance II    
Philippe Masset and Martin Wallmeier A High-Frequency Investigation of the Interaction between Volatility Changes and DAX Returns download
Sam Young Chung and Michael L. Tindall Does Idiosyncratic Risk Matter in Hedge Fund?: Institutional Investor's View download
Oliver A. Schwindler Performance Bias from Strategic Asset Allocation: The Case of Funds of Hedge Funds download
D4 Empirical Finance III    
Jose da Fonseca, Martino Grasselli and Florian Ielpo Estimating the Wishart Affine Stochastic Correlation Model Using the Empirical Characteristic Function download
Enzo Rossi and Angelo Ranaldo The Reaction of Asset Markets to Swiss National Bank Communication download
He Huang, Georg Keienburg and Duane R.Stock The Economic Value of Predicting Correlation for Asset Allocation download
SESSION E
E1 Interest Rates I 
Antje Mahayni and An Chen Endowment Assurance Products-Effectiveness of Risk-Minimizing Strategies under Model Risk download
Christoph Memmel Which Interest Rate Scenario Is the Worst One for a Bank? Evidence from a Tracking Bank Approach for German Savings and Cooperative Banks download
Ombretta Signori and Marie Briere Do Inflation-Linked Bonds Still Diversify? download
E2 Interest Rates II  
Marco Willner Forecasting International Yield Curves download
Theofanis Archontakis Hedging Interest Rate Risk in a Data-Rich Environment download
Christian Conrad and Michael Lamla The High-Frequency Response of the EUR-US Dollar Exchange Rate to ECB Monetary Policy Announcements download
E3 Behavioral Finance I 
Johannes Rieks and Sebastian Lobe Do Price Shocks Indicate a Short-Term Overreaction on the German Capital Market? download
Frank Niemeyer An Experiment in Banking - Evidence on Lender Behavior download
Andreas Walter, Kevin Aretz, Alexander Kerl and Marcel Naujoks Do German Security Analysts Herd? download
E4  Behavioral Finance II  
Andreas Walter and Alexander Kerl Never Judge a Book by Its Cover - What Security Analysts Have to Say beyond Recommendations download
Christoph Gort Overconfidence and Active Management. An Empirical Study across Swiss Pension Plans download
Mei Wang, Christoph Gort and Michael Siegrist Are Pension Fund Managers Overconfident? download
SESSION F  
F1 International Finance      
Emanuel Kopp, Michael Huetl, Otto Loistl and Johannes Prix Systematic Liquidity in the Xetra Order Book: A Multi-Stage Approach download
Alexande Groh, Heinrich Liechtenstein and Karsten Lieser The Attractiveness of Central Eastern European Countries for Venture Capital and Private Equity Investors download
Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov and Clemens J.M. Kool Stochastic Discount Factor Approach to International Risk Sharing: Evidence from Fixed Exchange Rate Episodes download
F2 Financial Intermediation     
Fabian Gleisner and Sven C. Berger Electronic Marketplaces and Intermediation - An Empirical Investigation of an Online P2P Lending Marketplace download
Barry Williams and Gulasekaran Rajaguru The Chicken or the Egg? The Trade-Off between Bank Non Interest Income and Net Interest Margins download
Michiel van Leuvensteijn and Wolter Hassink The Importance of Income and Housing Wealth Shocks for Residential Mobility: Evidence from Prepayment Risk Premiums download
F3 Asset Valuation I  
Cesario Mateus and Tzu-Wei Kuo The Performance and Persistence of Exchange-Traded Funds: Evidence for iShares MSCI Country-Specific ETFs download
Rachel Berchtold, Manuel Ammann and Ralf Seiz Do Demographic Changes Affect Pharmaceutical Companies' Returns? download
Mohamed A. Ayadi and Lawrence Kryzanowski Nonlinear Performance Measurement of Canadian Equity Mutual Funds download
     
F4 Asset Valuation II  
Karl Neumar Optimal Management of Portfolio Transitions download
Nicole Branger, Christian Schlag and Lue We Pricing Two Trees when Trees and Investors Are Heterogeneous download
     

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