Program of 2024

Day 1, November 21^st, 2024

Room Arena, SQUARE, UNISG Campus

11:50 – 12:50 Reception (ground floor in SQUARE, a quick stand-up lunch provided)

12:50 – 13:00 Welcomeby Martin Eling (Dean of School of Finance, University of St. Gallen)

Session 1: Chaired by Andrea Barbon (University of St. Gallen)

13:00 – 13:40  

Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds 

Lorenzo Bretscher (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Sonya Zhu (Bank for International Settlements)

13:40 – 14:20 

Preference Heterogeneity and Portfolio Choices Over the Wealth Distribution 

Markus Kondziella (University of St. Gallen)

Discussant: Lorenzo Bretscher (University of Lausanne)

 20 minutes coffee break, ground floor of SQUARE

Keynote Speech: Zacharias Sautner (University of Zurich)

Moderator: Martin Nerlinger (University of St. Gallen)

14:40 – 15:20

Corporate Climate Lobbying

15:20 – 15:40

Advice for young researchers: reflections on writing and publishing research papers

20 minutes coffee break, ground floor of SQUARE

Session 2:  Chaired by Vesa Pursianen (University of St. Gallen)

16:00 – 16:40 

ETFs as a Disciplining Device 

Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements)

Discussant: Stefano Rameli (University of St. Gallen)

16:40 – 17:20

Passive Investors and Loan Spreads

Sonya Zhu (Bank for International Settlements)

Discussant: Francesco Celentano (University of Lausanne)

17:20 – 18:00

Climate Transition Beliefs 

Stefano Rameli (University of St. Gallen)

Discussant: Rachel Nam (University of Lugano)

Day 1 After Party

18:00 – 19:30          

Apéro, ground floor of SQUARE, all participants invited    

18:40 –           

Walk to conference dinner (by invitation, starts around 19:00)

Day 2, November 22^nd, 2024

Ground Floor, St. Gallen Textile Museum

08:20 – 08:50 Reception

Session 3: Chaired by Kathleen KürschnerRauck (University of St. Gallen)

08:50 – 09:30

Why Firms Often Don’t Have a CEO Succession Plan?  

Francesco Celentano (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Konrad Adler (University of St. Gallen)

09:30 – 10:10 

Urban Spatial Distribution of Housing Liquidity 

Francisco Amaral (University of Zurich)

Discussant: Kathleen KürschnerRauck (University of St. Gallen)

10:10 – 10:50

Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets

Luise Eisfeld (University of Lausanne) 

Discussant: Markus Kondziella (University of St. Gallen)

20 minutes coffee break

Keynote Speech: Pierre Collin-Dufresne (EPFL)

Moderator: Stefano Ramelli (University of St. Gallen)

11:10 – 12:10

The pricing of risk in credit and equity index options: A role for option order flow?

20 minutes break

Session 4: Chaired by Can Gao (University of St. Gallen)

12:30 – 14:10  

25 minutes presentations including Q&A from audience:

Underlying liquidity uncertainty and option returns by Tobias Wiest (University of St. Gallen)               

Economic Incentives in the Digital Art Market by Natalia Rostova (EPFL)

Monetary Policy and Stablecoins by Andrea Barbon (University of St. Gallen)                      

Voting Behavior of Exchange Traded Funds by Ziwei Zhao (University of Lausanne)

14:10 – 14:15 Closing Remarksby Martin Eling (Dean of School of Finance, University of St. Gallen) 

14:15 – 16:00 Conversations in Textile Museum  

End of Day 2