Spring 2025

Lukas Roth, University of Alberta
« Thematic Indexing and Corporate Behavior: Evidence from MSCI’s Empowering Women Index »
23 May 2025

Can Gao, St Gallen University
« Survey Expectations Meet Option Prices: New Insights from the FX Market »
9 May 2025

Arnt Verriest, KU Leuven
« Intangible Liabilities »
4 April 2025

Autumn 2024

Stefan Rünzi, University of Mannheim
6 December 2024

Stefano Ramelli, St.Gallen University
« Climate Transition Beliefs »
11 October 2024

Roxana Mihet, University of Lausanne
« Data Risk, Firm Growth, and Innovation »
27 September 2024

Spring 2024

Olivier Dessaint, INSEAD
“The Horizon of Investors’ Information and Corporate Investment”
3 May 2024

Alberto Plazzi, Università della Svizzera italiana
“The Core, the Periphery, and the Disaster: Corporate-Sovereign Nexus in COVID-19 Times”
22 March 2024

Maximilian Müller, University of Cologne
8 March 2024

Autumn 2023

Julien Cujean, University of Bern
“Inferring Price Informativeness from “Nonfundamental” Shocks”
8 December 2023

Kornelia Fabisik, University of Bern
“Is History Repeating Itself? The (Un)Predictable Past of ESG Ratings”
27 October 2023

Christoph Sextroh, Tilburg University
“Do Firms Listen to Social Media Analysts? Evidence from Seeking Alpha”
6 October 2023

Autumn 2022

David Ardia, HEC Montréal
“Sentometrics: An Overview of Methodology and Applications”
9 December 2022 (with the Institute of Economic Research)

Sudheer Chava, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Do Managers Walk the Talk on Environmental and Social Issues?”
30 September 2022

Spring 2022

Andreas Fuster, EPFL
“Tiers of Joy? Reserve Tiering and Bank Behavior in a Negative-Rate Environment”
20 May 2022 (with the Institute of Economic Research)

Sebastian Stöckl, University of Liechtenstein
“Too much information: When reducing the informational content of input parameters yields better portfolios”
13 May 2022

Spring 2020

Irina Zviadadze, HEC Paris
“Term structure of risk in expected returns​”
6 March 2020

Lukas Roth, University of Alberta
“Does Corporate Culture Add Value? Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement”
4 February 2020

Christoph Basten, University of Zurich
“The Geography of Mortgage Lending in Times of FinTech”
31 January 2020

Autumn 2019

Guido Bolliger, Syz Asset Management, Geneva
“Parametric Portfolio Policies to Glean Carry and Ride the Trend”
6 December 2019

Katrin Assenmacher, European Central Bank (ECB)
“Monetary policy of the ECB and the effects of the non-standard measures”
25 October 2019 (with the Institute of Economic Research)

Andreas Schrimpf, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
“Explaining Monetary Spillovers: The Matrix Reloaded”
27 September 2019 (with the Institute of Economic Research)