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St. Gallen
Financial Economics Workshop

The workshop aims to bring together assistant professors and early-career associate professors in Europe for in-depth discussions of ongoing research. It offers a collegial and stimulating environment to exchange ideas, build professional networks, and receive high-quality feedback from senior and established scholars. The workshop is held annually

Academic Programme lead: Prof. Dr. Konrad Adler and Prof. Dr. Dr. Can Gao

Organisation: Honorata Kaczykowski

15 June 2026 (Executive Campus University of St.Gallen Plenum 14-020)

 

08:20 --- 08:55 Registration  

08:55 --- 09:00 Opening remarks by Martin Eling (Dean of SoF) 

09:00 --- 10:40 Session 1 Chair: Vesa Pursiainen (HSG, SFI)  

Paper 1 by Stefan Weik (HSG)  

Discussant Laurent Frésard (USI, SFI) 

Paper 2 by Katja Kisseleva- Scherenberger (Frankfurt School) 

Discussant Tereza Tykvova (HSG, SFI) 

Coffee break 

11:10 --- 12:50 Session 2 Chair: Andrea Barbon (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 3 by Veronica De Falco (Imperial) 

Discussant Alexandre Corhay (U Toronto) 

Paper 4 by Paul Heubner (SSE) 

Discussant Alberto Plazzi (USI, SFI) 

Lunch Break 

14:00 --- 15:10 Keynote by Marcin Kacperczyk, Moderator: Markus Schmid (HSG, SFI) 

Coffee break 

15:30 --- 17:10 `Sketch’ Round 1 

Two parallel sessions with four papers per session 

End of Day 1 

17:40 --- 18:40 Art Tour at HSG Campus (upon invitation, optional)  

19:00 --- Dinner at Lokremise (upon invitation)  

Sketch Round 1

Paper 1 Silvia Dalla Fontana (ESCP, Turin) 

Paper 2 Sonya Zhu (BIS) 

Paper 3 Piotr Danisewicz (Tilburg) 

Paper 4 Stefano Ramelli (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 1 Federica Zeni (EPFL, SFI) 

Paper 2 Zeo Zhengming Li (Oxford, Säid) 

Paper 3 Vesa Pursiainen (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 4 Alois Weigand (HSG) 

16 June 2026 (Stadthaus St.Gallen, Gallusstrasse 14, 9001 St. Gallen)

08:30 --- 09:00 Registration 

09:00 --- 10:40 Session 3 Chair: Julian Koelbel (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 5 Kim Fe Cramer (LSE): Copayments and the Value of Health Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Uganda 

Discussant Matthias Weber (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 6 Louiza Bartzoka (CBS) 

Discussant Andreas Fuster (EPFL, SFI)  

Coffee break  

11:10 --- 12:20 Keynote by Jessica Wachter, Moderator: Martin Brown (Gerzensee , HSG) 

Lunch Break 

13:30 --- 15:00 BIS Session Chair: Karamfil Todorov and Sonya Zhu  

TBD 

Coffee break  

15:30 --- 17:10 Session 4 Chair: Kathleen Kürschner Rauck (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 7 Yue Yuan (UCL) 

Discussant Yuliyan Mitkov (Vienna) 

Paper 8 Mattia Colombo (Rotterdam) 

Discussant Chotibhak Jotikasthira (SMU) 

End of Day 2 

18:00 --- 19:00 Apéro at Drei Linden (upon invitation) 

19:15 --- Dinner at Drei Linden (upon invitation) 

 

17 June 2026 (Washington House University of St.Gallen)

08:30 --- 09:00 Registration 

09:00 --- 10:40 Session 5 Chair: Martin Nerlinger (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 9 by Hanbin Yang (LBS) 

Discussant Lorenzo Bretscher (UNIL) 

Paper 10 by Federico Kochen (CEMFI) 

Discussant Boris Nikolov (UNIL) 

Coffee break 

11:00 --- 12:40 `Sketch’ Round 2 

Three parallel sessions with four papers per session (see program below) 

12:45 --- Lunch and goodbye 

Sketch Round 2

Paper 1 Jakob Sorensen (Bocconi) 

Paper 2 Ingomar Krohn (BIS and BoC) 

Paper 3 Tobias Sichert (SSE) 

Paper 4 Dimitris Papadimitriou (University of Cyprus)

Paper 1 Julian Koelbel (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 2 Natalia Rostova (EDHEC Nice) 

Paper 3 Tobin Hanspal (WU Vienna) 

Paper 4 Rachel Nam (USI, SFI) 

Paper 1 Karamfil Todorov (BIS) 

Paper 2 Andrea Barbon (HSG, SFI) 

Paper 3 Mathis Moerke (ESCP, Paris) 

Paper 4 Denis Mokanov (NHH) 

Can Gao

Prof. Dr. Dr.

Assistant Professor

SoF-HSG
Büro 51-4004
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St. Gallen

Konrad Adler

Prof. Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

SoF-HSG
Büro 51-4007
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St. Gallen

Honorata Kaczykowski

Executive Director School of Finance

SoF-HSG c/o I.VW
Büro 54-208
Girtannerstrasse 6
9010 St. Gallen

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