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8th Conference
Zürich SWX Swiss Exchange
April 8, 2005

Keynote Speech by Dr. Giuseppe Benelli, Bank Vontobel  

Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Dr. Heinz Zimmermann, University of Basel

 

SESSION A
A1 Governance 
Marcel Normann and Dirk Schiereck Existence and size of top executive-specific effects on corporate performance and policy in Germany  
Marc Chesney and Rajna Gibson-Asner Stock Options and Managers’ Incentives to Cheat download
Russ Wermers, Youchang Wu and Josef Zechner Portfolio Performance, Discount Dynamics, and the Turnover of Closed-End Fund Managers  
A2 Banking
Rainer Baule, Oliver Entrop and Marco Wilkens What do Banks Earn with Their Own Credit Risk? Evidence from the German Retail Market for Structured Financial Products download
Andreas Kamp, Andreas Pfingsten and Daniel Porath Do Banks Diversify Loan Portfolios? A Tentative Answer Based on Individual Bank Loan Portfolios 
A3 International Finance
Joachim Loebb Market and Currency Risk Premia during Financial and Political Crises: An Asset Pricing Perspective download
Stefano d’Addona and Axel Kind International Stock-Bond Correlations in a Simple Affine Asset Pricing Model download
Cinzia Alcidi Detecting misalignments. Simulating the "aligned" component of stock returns and real exchange rates. download
A4 Asset Pricing
Manuel Ammann and Michael Verhofen Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach  download
Marc Steffen Rapp and Bernhard Schwetzler Asset Prices in the Presence of a Tax Authority
Jacob Boudoukh, Roni Michaely, Matthew Richardson and M. Roberts On the Importance of Measuring Payout Yield: Implications for Empirical Asset Pricing download
SESSION B
B1 Banking Regulation
Rainer Jankowitsch, Stefan Pichler and Walter Schwaiger Modelling the Economic Value of Credit Rating Systems download
Daniel Rösch Regulatory Banking Capital, Estimation Error, and Systemic Risk in Ratings Based Capital Rules download
Helmut Elsinger, Alfred Lehar, and Martin Summer Using Market Information for Banking System Risk Assessment download
B2 Portfolio Selection
Eric Jondeau and Michael Rockinger Conditional Asset Allocation under Non-Normality: How Costly Is the Mean-Variance Criterion? download
Peter Oertmann and Greg Sohn The Effect of Hedge Funds on the Risk Profile of Global Portfolios download
B3 Investments    
Stefan Ruenzi Mutual Fund Growth in Standard and Specialist Market Segments download
Frédéric Sonney Sector versus Country Specialization and Financial Analysts’ Performance download
Martin Wallmeier Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts for DAX100 firms During the Stock Market Boom of the 1990s download
B4 Venture Capital    
Christian Diller and Christoph Kaserer What Drives Private Equity Returns? – Fund Inflows, Skilled GPs, and/or Risk? download
Wolfgang Bessler and Andreas Kurth The Performance of Venture-Backed IPOs in Germany: Exit Strategies, Lock-up Periods, and Bank Ownership download
Christian Hopp and Finn Rieder Empirical Evidence on Venture Capital Syndication and Shared Real Option Ownership download
SESSION C: 
C1 Corporate Finance
Stefan Hirth and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg Optimal Investment Timing When External Financing Is Costly download
Bogdan Stacescu Dividend Policy in Switzerland download
Michael Adams    
C2 Lending & Crises
Rofikoh Rokhim Related Lending and Banking Healthiness download
Markus Ricke What is the Link Between Margin Loans and Stock Market Bubbles download
C3 Empirical Finance I
Markus Glaser and Martin Weber Which Past Returns Affect Trading Volume? download
Henning Fock, Christian Klein and Bernhard Zwergel The Performance of Candlestick Analysis on Intraday Futures Data
Henryk Gurgul and Roland Mestel Price-Volume Relations on the German Stock Market download
C4 Empirical Finance II
Ivan Jaccard House Prices, Real Estate Returns, and the Business Cycle download
Timotheos Angelidis and Nikolaos Tessaromatis Equity Returns and Idiosyncratic Volatility: UK Evidence download
Martin Bohl and Katrin Gottschalk International Evidence on the Democrat Premium and the Presidential Cycle Effect download
SESSION D
D1 Derivatives I
Ren-Raw Chen and Shih-Kuo Yeh Analytical Bounds for Treasury Bond Futures Prices  
Gregor Dorfleitner and Kurt Hawlitschek A general Green’s function approach to option pricing download
Matthias Muck Where Should You Buy Your Options? Limited Arbitrage and Imperfect Competition in the Options Market download
D2 Derivatives II 
Giovanni Barone-Adesi, Robert Engle and Loriano Mancini GARCH Options in Incomplete Markets download
Enrico Moretto, Sara Pasquali and Barbara Trivellato An alternative model for evaluating exchange rates derivatives with stochastic volatility download
 D3 Hedging & Volatility     
Nicole Branger and Christian Schlag Can Tests Based on Option Hedging Errors Correctly Identify Volatility Risk Premia? download
Aymeric Kalife Dynamic Hedging by a Large Player  
Nicole Branger and Christian Schlag  Is Jump Risk Priced? — What We Can (and Cannot) Learn From Option Hedging Errors download
D4 Information & Uncertainty    
Anton Miglo Intertemporal substitution activities and optimal design of securities download
Frank Niemeyer Banking. The More You Know - Informational Rents in a General and a Rating Framework download
Patrick Behr and Samuel Lee Credit Risk Transfer, Delegated Monitoring, Real Sector Productivity, and Financial Deepening download
SESSION E
E1 Market Microstructure
Knut Griese and Alexander Kempf Predicting liquidity from order book data  download
Rudy De Winne and Catherine D’Hondt Market Transparency and Traders’ Behavior: An Analysis on Euronext with Full Order Book Data download
Alexander Kempf and Daniel Mayston Commonalities in the Liquidity of an Open Limit Order Book download
E2 Term Structure Modelling
Markus Junker, Alexander Szimayer and Niklas Wagner Nonlinear Term Structure Dependence: Copula Functions, Empirics, and Risk Implications download
Ralf Fendel Towards a Joint Characterization of Monetary Policy and the Dynamics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates download
E3 Credit Risk 
Lars Norden and Martin Weber The comovement of credit default swap, bond and stock markets: an empirical analysis download
Marc Gürtler and Dirk Heithecker Credit Cycle Risk of Financial Collaterals: Modelling, Evidence, and Practical Implications download
Christian Koziol Optimal Debt Service: Straight vs. Convertible Debt download
E4 Credit Ratings 
André Güttler and Mark Wahrenburg The adaptation of credit ratings of defaulted issuers download
Christian Koziol and Tim Thabe Optimal Ratings: Theory and Evidence download
Karl Keiber and Gunter Löffler Rationalizing the Policy of Credit Rating Agencies  download

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