SGF CONFERENCE 2021

March 25 and 26, 2021

We would like to thank all authors for submitting their contributions to the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions this year’s meeting will be held as a virtual conference. To accommodate participants located in different time-zones the conference dates / times have been adjusted to:

Thursday 25th March 13.45 – 18.15 CET

Friday 26th March 13.45 – 18.15 CET

You can find the most recent version of the program here: https://www.conftool.net/sgf2021/sessions.php.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Conference registration is possible through the following Zoom-Registration Link: https://unisg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpfuCoqTsqEtR5zc9bv1jA7xK622aVxama

In case you have problems logging on to the Zoom session, please send an email to Beatrix at:
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Within this Zoom meeting, the five parallel conference sessions will take place in different “breakout” rooms. After you have entered the Zoom meeting you can join any of the five parallel sessions by selecting the corresponding breakout room. You can move from one breakout room to another at any time you want. You can find a video with further explanations on breakout rooms here: How to join different break-out sessions

Please note that the Zoom breakout feature is a crucial element of our virtual conference. This requires ALL participants to be on Zoom client version 5.4 or higher. You can find a video on how to find out which Zoom version you have and also on how to update Zoom here: How to update Zoom

Download of Accepted Papers

In case you are interested in downloading the accepted papers, please set up a user account and register for the conference in our conference management system (https://www.conftool.net/sgf2021).

Keynote Speech

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens (University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute), "Evolutionary Portfolio Theory".

CONTACT

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Conference Organizers

Martin Brown, Roland Füss, Markus Schmid
University of St.Gallen

TRACK CHAIRS

Asset Pricing

Holger Kraft (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Tim Kroencke (University of Neuchatel)
Fabio Trojani (University of Geneva and SFI)
Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)

Corporate Finance & Governance

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach (EPFL and SFI)
Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business School)
Alexander Wagner (University of Zurich and SFI)

Financial Intermediation and Institutions

Steven Ongena (University of Zurich and SFI)
Stefan Ruenzi (University of Mannheim)
Sascha Steffen (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Behavioral Finance & Household Finance

Michaela Pagel (Columbia Business School),
Stefan Trautmann (University of Heidelberg)

Financial Markets General

Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University)
Albert Menkveld (VU Amsterdam)