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12th Conference
Geneva, Pictet & Cie
April 3, 2009

Keynote Speech by Patrick Odier, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie

SESSION A
A1 Corporate Finance I
Susanna Holzschneider Herding in IPO Valuation - Evidence from Germany in Hot and Cold Markets download
Francois Degeorge, Francois Derrien and Kent Womack Auctioned IPOs: The U.S. Evidence download
Christoph Kaserer, Alfred Mettler and Stefan Obernberger Has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act reduced the Cost of Going Public? download
A2 Corporate Finance II
Jens Martin Prop Ups During Lockups download
Thomas Hartmann-Wendels, Georg Keienburg and Soenke Sievers Valuation of Venture Capital Backed Firms - Guess or Professional Judgment of Agency Risks and Observable Firm Characteristics? download
Jörg Prokop Agency Problems in Impartial Business Appraisals download
A3 Corporate FinanceIII
Matthias Bühlmaier Debt, Equity, and Information
Daniel Hoang and Martin Ruckes Informed Headquarters and Socialistic Internal Capital Markets download
Michael Kisser The Value of Internal Funds download
A4 Corporate Finance IV
Sebastian Lobe, Tobias Niermeier, Wolfgang Essler and Klaus Röder Do Managers follow the Shareholder Value Principle when applying Capital Budgeting Methods? download
Claudio Loderer and Urs Wälchli Firm Age and Performance download
Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz and Martin Seim Motives and Valuation Effects of Share Repurchase Announcements in Germany: A Comparison of Established Firms and Initial Public Offerings download
SESSION B
B1 Empirical Finance I
Yuliya Plyakha and Grigory Vilkov Portfolio Policies with Stock Options download
Maria Kasch and Bing Anderson DJIA Index Membership and the Flow of Information between Stock Returns download
Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz and Julian Holler Capital Markets and Corporate Control: Empirical Evidence from Hedge Fund Activism in Germany download
B2 Empirical Finance II
Benjamin Golez Options Implied Dividend Yield and Market Returns download
Beate Breuer Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo Estimation of Index Option Models download
Paulo Jorge Mauricio Rodrigues and Christian Schlag A Jumping Index of Jumping Stocks? An MCMC Analysis of Continuous-Time Models for Individual Stocks download
B3 Empirical Finance III
Sven Bornemann, Susanne Homölle, Carsten Hubensack, Andreas Pfingsten To Use or Not To Use - Empirical Study of Visible Reserves in Bank Accounting in Light of Regulatory Requirements & Information Asymmetries download
Marcel Prokopczuk Intra-Industry Contagion Effects of Earnings Surprises in the Banking Sector download
Wolfgang Breuer and Astrid Salzmann Cultural Dimensions of Corporate Governance Systems download
B4 Empirical Finance IV
Denis Schweizer and Roland Füss Dynamic Interactions between Venture Capital Returns and the Macroeconomy: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence from the US download
Wolfgang Breymann Measuring Risk of Short Return Series with an Application to fund of Hedge Fund Data download
Sebastian Krimm, Hendrik Scholz and Marco Wilkens Selection, Timing and Total Performance of Equity Mutual Funds: On the Relevance of Model Specification download
SESSION C
C1 Risk Management I
C2 Risk Management II
Gabriel Frahm and Christoph Memmel Dominating Estimators for the Global Minimum Variance Portfolio download
Terhi Katariina Jokipii Nonlinearity of Bank Capital and Charter Values download
Thomas Schmid, Markus Ampenberger, Christoph Kaserer, A.-K. Achleitner Family Firms, Agency Costs and Risk Aversion - Empirical Evidence from Diversification and Hedging Decisions download
C3 Risk Management III
Mindaugas Baltutis Non-stationary Stock Returns and Time to Revise the Optimal Portfolio download
Sven Balder and Antje Mahayni Cash-Lock Comparison of Portfolio Insurance Strategies download
Florian Ielpo, Jose da Fonseca and Martino Grasselli Hedging (Co)Variance Risk with Variance Swaps download
C4 Credit Risk
Andreas C. Blöchlinger Quantitative Validation of the Term Structure of Credit Default Probabilities download
Giovanni Calice and Christos Ioannidis An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Credit Default Swap Index Market on Large Complex Financial Institutions download
Andreas Oehler, Thomas J. Walker and Stefan Wendt On the Bond Market's Evaluation of Insider Stock Trading Activities - Evidence from Germany download

SESSION D

D1 Financial Intermediation I
Barry Williams and Jan-Egbert Sturm What Determines Differences in Foreign Bank Efficiency? Australian Evidence download
Andreas Dietrich and Gabrielle Wanzenried What Determines the Profitability of Commercial Banks? New Evidence from Switzerland download
Christoph Memmel and Andrea Schertler The Dependency of the Banks' Assets and Liabilities: Evidence from Germany download
D2 Financial Intermediation II
Alexis Derviz, Ralph de Haas and Iman van Lelyveld Funding Costs and Lending Rates: Theory and Application to Loan Pricing by Multinational Bank Affiliates download

Daniel Foos

Lending Conditions, Macroeconomic Fluctuations, and the Impact of Bank Ownership download
Brunella Bruno and Mascia Bedendo Credit Risk Transfer Practices in US Commercial Banks download
D3 Mutual Funds
Shengsui Hu, Yannick Malevergne and Didier Sornette Investors' Misperception: A Hidden Source of High Markups in the Mutual Fund Industry download
Michaela Baer, Alexandra Niessen and Stefan Ruenzi The Impact of Team Diversity on Mutual Fund Performance download
Richard Stehle and Patrick Lehmann German Stock Mutual Funds: Industry Characteristics and Long-Run Performance download
D4 Interest Rates and Term Structure
Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche and Stefan Gerlach The Term Structure of Interest Rates across Frequencies download
Riccardo Pacini Auctioning Government Securities: The Puzzle of Overpricing download
Andreas Gintschel and Christian Wiehenkamp A Global Liquidity Factor for Fixed Income Pricing download
SESSION E
E1 Asset Valuation I
Wolfgang Bessler, David Blake, Peter Lueckoff and Ian Tonks Why is Persistent Mutual Fund Performance so Difficult to Achieve? TheImpact of Fund Flows and Manager Turnover download
Daniel Kreutzmann and Stefan Kanne Recommendations and the Performance of Target Price Changes? download
Sebastian Lobe and Stefan Roithmeier Vice vs. Virtue Investing download
E2 Asset Valuation II
Rajna Gibson, Songtao Wang Hedge Fund Alphas: Do they Reflect Managerial Skills or Mere Compensation for Liquidity Risk Bearing? download
Raphael Paschke and Marcel Prokopczuk Investing in Commodity Futures Markets: Can Spot Price Model Help download
Thomas Nitschka Idiosyncratic Consumption Risk and Predictability of the Carry Trade Premium: Euro Area Evidence download
E3 Asset Valuation III
Urs Peter von Arx and Andreas Ziegler The Effect of CSR on Stock Performance: New Evidence for the USA and Europe download
John V. Duca, John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy House Prices and Credit Constraints: Making Sense of the U.S. Experience download
Tony Berrada and Julien Hugonnier Incomplete Information, Idiosyncratic Volatility and Stock Returns download
E4 Theory of Capital Markets
Bjarne Astrup Jensen and Marcel Marekwica Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wash Sale Constraints download
Felix Miebs, André Güttler and Patrick Behr Is Minimum-Variance Investing really Worth the While? An Analysis with Robust Performance Inference download
Florian Esterer and David Schroeder The Implied Equity Duration - Empirical Evidence for Explaining the Value Premium download
SESSION F
F1 Behavioral Finance I
Stefan Zeisberger, Maik Dierkes and Carsten Erner Investment Horizon and the Attractiveness of Investment Strategies download
Thorsten Hens and Marc Oliver Rieger The Dark Side of the Moon: Structured Products from the Customer's Perspective download
Gabriele Mario Lepori Environmental Stressors, Mood, and Investment Decisions: Evidence from Air Pollution in Milan, Italy download
F2 Behavioral Finance II
Christian Hott Banks and Real Estate Prices download
Irene Comeig, C. Monica Capra and Matilde O. Fernandez Moral Hazard and Screening in an Experiemntal Market download
Levent Guntay and Dirk Hackbarth Corporate Bond Credit Spreads and Forecast Dispersion download
F3 Derivatives I
Nicole Branger and Alexandra Hansis Asset Allocation in SVCJ Models: How much does Model Choice matter? download
Adrian Buss and Grigory Vilkov Option-Implied Correlation and Factor Betas Revisited download
Nicole Branger, Antje Mahayni and Judith Christiane Schneider Pricing and Upper Price Bounds of Relax Certificates download
F4 Derivatives II
Nicole Branger, Alexandra Hansis and Christian Schlag Expected Option Returns and the Structure of Jump Risk Premia download
Manuel Ammann and Stephan Süss The Valuation of Volatility Options download
Nicole Branger, Holger Kraft and Christoph Meinerding What is the Impact of Stock Market Contagion on an Investor's Portfolio Choice? download
SESSION G
G1 International Finance I
Lucia Morales Volatility Spillovers on Precious Metals Markets: The Effects of the Asian Crisis download
Naohiko Baba Dynamic Spillover of Money Market Turmoil from FX Swap to Cross-Currency Swap Markets: Evidence from 2007-08 Turmoil download
Georgios Gatopoulos ADR Spreads and their Informational Content: The Role of Relative US Investor Sentiment download
G2 International Finance II
Petros Migiakis and Dimitris Georgoutsos Benchmark Bonds' Interactions Under Regime Shifts download
Harald Lohre and Markus Leippold The Dispersion Effect in International Stock Returns download
Victoria Galsband Inflation Uncertainty, Size and Value Premia: Evidence from Survey Data download
G3 Market Microstructure I
Eva Benz and Joerdis Hengelbrock Liquidity and Price Discovery in the European CO2 Futures Market: An Intraday Analysis download
Philipp Fasnacht Liquidity and Asymmetric Return Correlations: The Case of the UK Stock Market download
Manfred Frühwirth, Leopold Sögner and Paul Schneider The Risk Microstructure of Corporate Bonds: A Case Study from the German Corporate Bond Market download
G4 Market Microstructure II
Emmanuel Fragnière, Nils Tuchschmid and Qun Zhang Measuring Liquidity Risk: The Estimation of Liquidity Adjusted Value at Risk download
Markus Gsell and Peter Gomber Algorithmic Trading Engines versus Human Traders - Do they behave Different in Securities Markets? download
Gongyu Chen Herd Induced by Uninformed Traders in Efficient Financial Markets download

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