Swiss Finance Institute Best Paper Doctoral Award and Best Discussant Doctoral Award

Swiss Finance Institute Best Paper Doctoral Award
The annual SFI Best Paper Doctoral Award distinguishes a PhD student for an outstanding research paper presented at the Annual PhD Workshop organized by SFI and NCCR-FINRISK. The winning paper is nominated by a committee formed of outside international experts participating in the Workshop and is selected by faculty representatives from each SFI Academic Center.  This Award was started in 2003 by the International Center FAME and from 2006 has been extended to all Swiss Doctoral Students in Finance under the auspices of FINRISK and SFI.

Recipients of the Best Paper Doctoral Award:

2012
Matthias Efing for his paper entitled “Bank Capital Regulation with an Opportunistic Rating Agency”.

2011
Rémy Praz for his paper entitled "Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice in the Presence of both Liquid and Illiquid Markets".

2010
Julien Cujean for his paper entitled "Equilibrium Asset Prices with Bid-Ask Spreads".

2009
Cornelius Schmidt for his paper entitled "How internal capital markets reduce conglomerates' values?".

2008
Laurent Frésard for his paper entitled "Financial Strength and Product Market Behaviors: The Real Effects of Corporate Cash Holdings".

2007
Sébastien Michenaud for his paper entitled "Analysts Consensus and Corporate Investment".

2006
Maria Cecilia Bustamante for her paper entitled "The Dynamics of Going Public".


Swiss Finance Institute Best Discussant Doctoral Award
The annual SFI Best Discussant Doctoral Award was begun by SFI in 2007 and is awarded to PhD students for an outstanding discussion of a paper presented at the SFI / NCCR-FINRISK Annual PhD Workshop. The recipients are selected by the chairmen of the respective workshop sessions.

Recipients of the Best Discussant Doctoral Award:

2012
Julien Cujean

2011
Peter Gruber
Ngoc Giang Hoang
Cornelius Schmidt

2010
Julien Cujean
Nilüfer Caliskan
Jan-Peter Kulak

2009
Anna Cieslak
Ilaria Piatti

2008
Jan-Peter Kulak
Rodolfo Prieto
Leon Bogdan Stacescu

2007
Anna Cieslak
Alexandre Jeanneret.

Events

22.05.2013 - Zurich
SFI Breakfast Seminar with Michael V. Dunn
The impact of speculators in the agricultural futures markets and the resulting price of agricultural products

13.06.2013 - Zurich
Panel: Agrarrohstoffe: Was ist zu tun, was ist zu lassen?

25.06.2013 - Zurich
SFI Breakfast Seminar with Dr. Andreas Wespi
Advanced Persistent Threats - etwas, das auch die Banken betrifft?

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