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GPEF Job Market Candidates 2024/2025

Placement Officer: Prof. Matthias Weber

Placement Administrator: Dr. Mirela Keuschnigg

Marcel Freyschmidt, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance

 

Personal website
CV
marcel.freyschmidtunisg.ch

Job Market Paper: Pricing Beyond Insurance: Capital Markets and Emerging Risks

Primary research interests: Quantitative Risk Management, Emerging Tail Risks (NatCat and Cyber Risks),
Alternative Risk Transfer Instruments (Cat Bonds), and Public-Private Partnerships

References:
Prof. Martin Eling
University of St.Gallen
Full Professor of Insurance Economics
Dean School of Finance, Director I.VW.
Tel.: +41 71 224 7980
martin.elingunisg.ch

Prof Dr. Alexander Braun 
University of St. Gallen
Associate Professor of Insurance and Capital Markets
Director I.VW.
Tel.: +41 71 224 36 53
alexander.braununisg.ch

Prof. Dr. Georges Dionne 
HEC Montréal 
Full Professor of Finance at HEC Montréal
Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management
Tel.: +1 514 340-6596
georges.dionnehec.ca

Prof. Dr. David Eckles 
University of Georgia
Professor in the Risk Management and Insurance Program at UGA's Terry College of Business 
decklesuga.edu
Tel.: +1 706 542-3578

Nicole Hentschel, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance

 

    

Personal webpage
CV
nicole.hentschelunisg.ch

Job Market Paper:
Risk Attitudes do not explain Cash Holdings

Primary research interests: household finance and behavioral economics, particularly payment behavior

 

References:
Prof. Dr. Martin Brown
Director of the Study Center Gerzensee 
Professor (adjunct) of Financial Economics at the University of St. Gallen
+41 71 224 7042
martin.brownszgerzensee.ch

Dr. Helmut Stix 
Senior Advisor Economic Research Section
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) 
helmut.stixoenb.at

Prof. Dr. Christian Biener
Associate Professor of Behavioral Risk Management,
Faculty Member Swiss Finance Institute
University of St.Gallen
christian.bienerunisg.ch

Prof. Dr. Anastasia Kartasheva
Associate Professor, School of Finance,
Faculty Member Swiss Finance Institute
University of St.Gallen
anastasia.kartashevaunisg.ch

Edouard Mattille, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics and Finance

Personal website
CV
edouard.mattilleunisg.ch

Job Market Paper: Hiding in plain sight: preferred habitat effects in short-term rates

Primary research interests: international finance, financial intermediation, and market microstructure in the context of foreign exchange (FX) and short-term interest rate markets

References:
Prof. Angelo Ranaldo
University of Basel
+41 71 224 7980
angelo.ranaldounibas.ch

Prof. Dr. Martin Brown
Director of the Study Center Gerzensee 
Professor (adjunct) of Financial Economics at the University of St. Gallen
+41 71 224 7042
martin.brownszgerzensee.ch

Prof. Suresh Sundaresan
Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics 
Columbia Business School
+1 (212) 8544423
ms122gsb.columbia.edu

Dingchen Ning, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance

 

Personal website
CV
dingchen.ningunisg.ch

Job Market Paper: 
Information asymmetry in cyber insurance markets

Primary research interests: insurance economics, cyber risk, and financial markets

References:
Prof. Martin Eling
University of St.Gallen
+41 71 224 7980
martin.elingunisg.ch

Prof. Anastasia Kartasheva
University of St.Gallen
+41 71 224 7995
anastasia.kartashevaunisg.ch

Prof. Rustam Ibragimov
Imperial College Business School
+44 20 7594 9344
i.rustamimperial.ac.uk

 

Personal website
CV
paul.schaudtunisg.ch

Job Market Paper: 
Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict (with Kai Gehring)

Primary research interests: Development Economics, Resource Economics, Economic Geography, and Political Economy

References:
Prof. Roland Hodler 
University of St.Gallen
+41 71 224 2578
roland.hodlerunisg.ch

Prof. Mathias Thönig
University of Lausanne
+41 21 692 33 93
Mathias.Thoenigunil.ch

Prof. Filipe Campante
John Hopkins University
+1 (202) 663-5687
fcampantejhu.edu

 

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