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)
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
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)
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