Grants
SNF Grant: Professor Luisa Lambertini, Chair of International Finance at the College of Management of Technology (CDM), has been awarded a CHF 179’913.00 Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Project “The Macroeconomics of Banking Regulation”.
Publications
Economic Modelling Journal; Expectations-Driven Cycles in the Housing Market, authored by Luisa Lambertini, Maria Teresa Punzi and Caterina Mendicino.
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Mortgage Default in an Estimated Model of the U.S. Housing Market, authored by Luisa Lambertini, Pynar Uysal and Victoria Nuguer.
Staff
The Chair of International Finance is pleased to welcome Christian Pröbsting as post-doctoral fellow and Yu Wu as Phd fellow staring respectively in September 1st 2016.
Abhik Mukherjee was fellow of the PHD program by the Chair of International Finance at EPFL in Lausanne from September 2011 until December 2016. He is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the African Institute of Financial Markets & Risk Management, University of Cape Town.

Conferences and Seminars
August 2017

ESEM 2017 70th European Meeting of the Econometric Society; Lisbon Portugal; Monetary Commitment and the Level of Public Debt; Luisa Lambertini
ESEM 2017 70th European Meeting of the Econometric Society; Lisbon Portugal; A Macroeconomic Model of Deposit Insurance and Bank runs; Corinne Dubois.
June 2017

92 Annual WEAI Conference San Diego; California IBEFA Summer Meeting
Bank Capital and Firm Lending:The Case for Switzerland ; Luisa Lambertini ( Joined with Abhik Mukherjee)
A Macroeconomic Model of Deposit Insurance
and Bank runs; Corinne Dubois
April 2017

IMK Colloquium, Hans-Boeckler Stiftung, Duesseldorf, Germany
Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession; Christian Pröbsting (joined with Christopher L. House and Linda L. Tesar)
March 2017

Growth, Housing and Global Imbalances. Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2017 Leibniz, Germany; Luis Franjo (joint with Luisa Lambertini and Serhiy Stepanchuck)

A macroeconomic model of liquidity, wholesale funding and banking regulation; 21st CONFERENCE THEORIES AND METHODS IN MACROECONOMICS, Lisbon Portugal, Corinne Dubois
January 2017
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Is Bank Capital Regulation Costly for Firms? – Evidence from Syndicated Loans; 2017 ASSA ANNUAL MEETING Chicago; USA ; Luisa Lambertini (joined with Abhik Mukherjee)
Growth, Housing and Global Imbalances; 2017 ASSA ANNUAL MEETING Chicago; USA 2017 ASSA ANNUAL MEETING Chicago; USA ; Luis Franjo ( joined with Luisa Lambertini and Serhiy Stepanchuk)
December 2016
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Growth,Housing and Global Imbalances,SAEe 2016 Bilbao Spain 41 Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association; Luis Franjo (joined with Luisa Lambertini and Serhiy Stepanchuck)

Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession; Workshop on current monetary policy challenges; Frankfurt; Germany; Christian Pröbsting; (joined with Christopher L. House and Linda L. Tesar)

Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession; Christmas Meeting of German Economists Abroad; Berlin, Germany; Christian Pröbsting (joined with Christopher L. House and Linda L. Tesar)
September 2016

A Macroeconomic Model of Liquidity, Wholesale Funding and Banking Regulation; Università La Sapienza, Rome; Italy; Luisa Lambertini joint with Corinne Dubois

A Macroeconomic Model of Liquidity, Wholesale Funding and Banking Regulation; Innovations in Central Banking Conference- September 23, 2016; St.Louis; USA; Luisa Lambertini joint with Corinne Dubois.

A Macroeconomic Model of Liquidity, Wholesale Funding and Banking Regulation; Università La Sapienza, Rome; Italy; Luisa Lambertini joint with Corinne Dubois
August 2016

The Costs (and Benefits) of Fiscal Consolidation: What Does the Experience of U.S. States Tell Us?31st European Economic Association meeting 2016;Geneva, Switzerland, Luisa Lambertini
A Macroeconomic Model of Liquidity, Wholesale Funding and Banking Regulation, EEA 2016;Geneva, Switzerland; Corinne Dubois
Is Bank Capital Regulation Costly for Firms? Evidence from Syndicated Loans; EEA 2016; Geneva; Switzerland; Abhik Mukherjee
July 2016
“A Macroeconomic Model of Liquidity, Wholesale Funding and Banking Regulation”; IBEFA Summer Meeting; Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference in Portland Oregon; Luisa Lambertini

June 2016
A Macroeconomic Model of Liquidity, Wholesale Funding and Banking Regulation; 22nd International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2016 ); Bordeaux; France; Luisa Lambertini (joint with Corinne Dubois)

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Monetary Commitment and the Level of Public Debt; FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY, XXI CENTURY
GSE Summer Forum; Banco de Espana Madrid and Barcelona; Luisa Lambertini (joint with Stefano Gnocchi)
March 2016
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Monetary Commitment and the Level of Public Debt; University of Vienna; Luisa Lambertini (joint with Stefano Gnocchi)
How Do Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laffer Curves? T2 Conference; Paris; Serhiy Stepanchuk (joint with Holter Hanand Krueger Dirk)


