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9th Conference
Zürich SWX Swiss Exchange
April 7, 2006

Keynote Speech by Philipp M. Hildebrand  

SESSION A
A1 Investments I
Stefan Rünzi and Alexandra Niessen Sex Matters: Gender and Mutual Funds download
Thomas Burkhardt Efficiency of Cost-Averaging as an Investment Strategy - An Analysis Based on Second Order Stochastic Dominance download
Stefan Hirth and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg Investment Timing and Endogenous Default download
A2 Investments II  
Francois Degeorge, Francois Derrien and Kent Womack Analyst Hype in IPOs: Explaining the Popularity of Bookbuilding download
Rajdeep Patgiri and Massimo Massa Compensation and Managerial Herding: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry download
William Ziemba The Symmetric Downside-Risk Sharpe Ratio and the Evaluation of Great Investors and Speculators
A3 Investments III  
Stefan Rünzi, Michaela Bär and Alexander Kempf Team Management and Mutual Funds download
Christian Wagner and Markus Hochradl Trading the Forw ard Bias: Are there Limits to Speculation? download
Urs von Arx Principle Guided Investing: The Use of Negative Screens and its Implications for Green Investors download
A4 Economics and Finance
Allan Zebedee, Eric Bentzen, Peter Hansen and Asger Lunde The Greenspan Effect on Equity Markets: An Intraday Examination of US Monetary Policy Announcements download
Daniel Hartmann, Christian Pierdzioch and Jörg Döpke Real-Time Macroeconomic Data and Ex Ante Stock Return Predictability download
Angelo Ranaldo and Charlotte Christiansen Realized Bond-Stock Correlation: Macroeconomic Announcement Effects
SESSION B  
B1 Banking I  
Maurice Pedergnana, Gabrielle Wanzenried and Daniel Piazza Board and Executive Compensation in the Swiss Banking Industry: The Case of Cantonal Banks download
Timo Baas and Mechthild Schrooten Relationship Banking and SMEs: A Theoretical Analysis download
Anke Gerber, Thorsten Hens and Peter Woehrmann Dynamic General Equilibrium and T-Period Fund Separation download
B2 Banking II  
Rainer Baule Allocation of Economic Capital Based on Internal Market Mechanisms download
Markus Holzhäuser Long-term Performance Effects of Bank Diversification download
Christina Bannier Heterogeneous Multiple Bank Financing and Optimal Firm Policy - Is There a Hold-up Benefit? download
B3 Banking III    
Laura Spierdijk, Jacob Bikker, Roy Hoevenaars and Pieter Van der Sluis Forecasting Market Impact Costs and Identifying Expensive Trades download
Michael Chng and Aihua Xia The Price Formation of Substitute Markets: Theory and Application to Twin-share China Firms download
Michael Hütl, Otto Loistl and Johannes Prix Doubly Stochastic Markov Process: A Causal Approach to Modelling Cadlag Market Event Time Series download
B4 Market Microstructure II     
Alain Durré, Helena Beltran and Pierre Giot Volatility Regimes and the Provision of Liquidity in Order Book Markets download
Fabrizio Palmucci Do the Italian STARs’ Shine in a Hybrid Market? download
Karl Keiber Insider Trading Rules and Price Formation in Securities Markets - An Entropy Analysis of Strategic Trading download
SESSION C: 
C1 Empirical Finance I     
Angelo Ranaldo Information Content and Predictability of Extreme Prices in Financial Markets
Alexander Kerl and Andreas Walter Market Responses to Buy Recommendations Issued by German Personal Finance Magazines: Effects of Information, Price-Pressure, and Company Characteristics download
Lily Fang and Ayako Yasuda Are Stars' Opinions Worth More? The Relation Between Analyst Reputation and Recommendation Values download
C2 Empirical Finance II    
Lily Fang and Ayako Yasuda The Effectiveness of Reputation as a Disciplinary Device in Sell-Side Research download
Philipp Schmitz, Markus Glaser and Martin Weber Individual Investor Sentiment and Stock Returns - What Do We Learn from Warrant Traders? download
Angel Liao and Jonathan Williams Implications of News Asymmetries in Foreign Exchange Markets download
C3  Empirical Finance III   
Udo Seifert, Marco Klinge and Richard Stehle Abnormal Returns in the Vicinity of Insider Transactions: The Case of Germany download
Zacharias Sautner and Martin Weber Corporate Governance and the Design of Stock Option Programs download
Maria Kasch Volatility Threshold Dynamic Conditional Correlations: Implications for International Portfolio Diversification download
C4 Empirical Finance IV   
Wolfgang Drobetz and Matthias Grüninger Corporate Cash Holdings: Evidence from a Different Institutional Setting download
Hayette Gatfaoui Is There a Latent Factor in Stock Returns? download
Michael Grote and Marc Umber Home Biased? A Spatial Analysis of the Domestic Merging Behavior of US Firms download

SESSION D:                 

   
D1 International Finance      
Alexis Derviz A Model of Brokered FX Trades under Heterogeneous Private Values and Information download
Jakob Boudoukh, Matthew Richardson and Robert Whitelaw The Information in Long-maturity Forward Rates: Implications for Exchange Rates and the Forward Premium Anomaly download
Yuan Ding, Eric Nowak and Hua Zhang Foreign vs. Domestic Listing: a Decision of Entrepreneurial Firms download
D2 Performance Measurement    
Hendrik Scholz and Marco Wilkens The Sharpe Ratio's Market Climate Bias - Theoretical and Empirical Evidence from US Equity Mutual Funds download

Olivier Scaillet, Laurent Barras and Russ Wermers

False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas download
Martin Eling and Frank Schuhmacher Does the Choice of Performance Measure Influence the Evaluation of Hedge Funds? download
 D3 Derivatives I    
Grigory Vilkov, Joost Driessen and Pascal Maenhout Option-Implied Correlations and the Price of Correlation Risk download
Nadia Ouertani, Georges Dionne, Geneviève Gauthier and Nabil Tahani Heterogeneous Basket Options Pricing Using Analytical Approximations  
Martin Wallmeier and Reinhold Hafner Volatility as an Asset Class: European Evidence download
D4 Derivatives II       
João Amaro de Matos and Ana Lacerda Random Dry Markets and Statistical Arbitrage Bounds for European Derivatives download
Eva Schneider, Nicole Branger and Christian Schlag General Equilibrium with Stochastic Volatility and Jumps download
Matthias Muck Pricing Turbo Certificates in the Presence of Stochastic Jumps, Interest Rates and Volatility download
SESSION E
E1 Corporate Finance 
Dusan Isakov, Dennis Chung and Christophe Pérignon Repurchasing Shares on a Second Trading Line download
Matthias Johannsen and Hans-Peter Burghof Good versus Bad Earnings Management: Is Income Smoothing a Deliverance? download
Jan Smolarski, Can Kut and Bengt Pramborg Risk Management in European Private Equity Funds: Survey Evidence
E2 Credit Risk I  
Dirk Herkommer Do the Recovery Rate and the Accounting Regime Matter for Pricing Corporate Bonds and Loans? Evidence from Models with Incomplete Accounting Information download
Martin Hibbeln, Dirk Heithecker and Marc Gürtler Auditing Basel II Capital Rules: When are Standardized Portfolios Infinitely Fine Grained? download
Marco Sorge and Blaise Gadanecz The Term Structure of Credit Spreads in Project Finance download
E3 Credit Risk II 
Dirk Heithecker and Marc Gürtler Multi-Period Defaults and Maturity Effects on Economic Capital in a Ratings-Based Default-Mode Model download
Peter Grundke Importance Sampling for Integrated Market and Credit Portfolio Models download
Peter Posch Time to Change. Rating Changes and Policy Implications. download
E4  Credit Risk III  
Thomas Moosbrucker Pricing CDOs with Correlated Variance Gamma Distributions download
Svenja Hager and Rainer Schöbel Deriving the Dependence Structure of Portfolio Credit Derivatives Using Evolutionary Algorithms
Christina Bannier and Marcel Tyrell Modelling the Role of Credit Rating Agencies - Do They Spark off a Virtuous Circle ? download
SESSION F  
F1 Portfolio Choice I      
Wolfgang Bessler and Claudia Bittelmeyer Intellectual Capital and the Long-run Performance of Technology Firms download
Thorsten Hens and Martin Vlcek Does Prospect Theory Explain the Disposition Effect? download
Pascal St-Amour Endowment - Dependent Reference Consumption in Aggregate Household Portfolios download
F2   Portfolio Choice II     
Dmitry Makarov Difference in Interim Performance and Risk Taking download
Eva Schneider, Nicole Branger and Christian Schlag Optimal Portfolios when Volatility can Jump download
Manuel Ammann and Michael Verhofen The Effect of Market Regimes on Style Allocation download
F3 Debt and Interest Rates  
Enrico Bernini Inflation, Interest, and the Fed in Real Time download
Philipp Jostarndt Of Bail-outs and Bankruptcies: A Study of Distressed Debt Restructurings in Germany download
Manuel Ammann and Ralf Seiz Pricing and Hedging Mandatory Convertible Bonds download
F4  Speeches  
Luc Schuurmans Practical Experiences with Equity Derivatives for Private Banking Clients  
Jörg Kienitz Constant Maturity Structures  
     

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