2018
Julien Blatt
Thesis director: Semyon Malamud
Title of thesis: Essays in Financial Economics
Title of the main paper: Slow Arbitrage
Placement: UBS, Zurich
Thomas Geelen
Thesis directors: Julien Hugonnier and Erwan Morellec
Title of thesis: Essays in corporate finance
Title of the main paper: Information Dynamics and Debt Maturity
Placement: Copenhagen Business School
Yuan Zhang
Thesis director: Semyon Malamud
Title of thesis: Equilibrium Models for Derivatives Markets with Frictions
Placement: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2017
Damien Ackerer
Thesis director: Damir Filipovic
Title of thesis: Polynomial models in finance
Title of the main paper:
Placement: Swissquote, Switzerland
Vincent Bogousslavsky
Thesis director: Pierre Collin-Dufresne
Title of thesis: Three Essays on Predictability and Seasonality in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Title of the main paper: Infrequent Rebalancing, Return Autocorrelation, and Seasonality
Placement: Boston College, USA
Petrov Evgeny
Thesis director: Semyon Malamud
Title of thesis: Three Essays on Corporate Disclosure
Title of the main paper:
Placement: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA
Christoph Herpfer
Thesis director: Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Title of thesis: Essays in Financial Economics
Title of the main paper: The Role of Bankers in the U.S. Syndicated Loan Market
Placement: Emory University Goizueta Business School, USA
Yalda Sigrist-Zargari
Thesis director: Erwan and co-director Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Title of thesis: Essays in Bank Financing
Title of the main paper: How to finance SIFIs
Placement:
2016
Benjamin Junge
Thesis director: Anders Trolle
Title of thesis: “Essays on the Market Structure and Pricing of Credit Derivatives”
Title of the main paper: Market Structure and Transaction Costs of Index CDSs
Placement: Cornerstone Research
Christopher Trevisan
Thesis director: Pierre Collin-Dufresne
Title of thesis: “Essays in Financial Economics”
Title of the main paper: High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
Placement: Special Figures, Switzerland
2015
Stefano Colonnello
Thesis director: Erwan Morellec and co-director: Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Title of thesis: “Essays in empirical corporate finance”
Title of the main paper: “The impact of credit default swaps on creditor governance”
Placement: Otto-von-Guericke University and Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany
Francesca Zucchi
Thesis director: Erwan Morellec
Title of thesis: “Essays in dynamic corporate finance”
Title of the main paper: “Internal-External Liquidity Feedbacks”
Placement: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, USA
2014
Rémy Praz
Thesis director: Semyon Malamud
Title of thesis: “Essays in asset pricing with search frictions”
Title of the main paper: “Equilibrium Asset Pricing with both Liquid and Illiquid Markets”
Placement: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Emmanuel Leclercq
Thesis director: Damir Filipovic and co-director: Loriano Mancini
Title of thesis: “Three essays on asset pricing”
Placement: Industry
Ilya Kolpakov
Thesis director: Anders Trolle
Title of thesis: “Commodity spread options pricing and the economic fundamentals of crack spreads”
Placement: Private Sector, Singapore
Ngoc Giang Hoang
Thesis director Erwan Morellec and co-director Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Title of thesis: “Essays in Corporate Finance”
Title of the main paper: Inside debt and corporate failure”
Placement: Polytech Ventures, Switzerland
2013
Julien Cujean
Thesis director: Julien Hugonnier and co-director: Bernard Dumas (Insead)
Title of thesis: “Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing”
Placement: University of Maryland, R.H. Smith School of Business, USA
Giuliano Antonio Curatola
Thesis director: Julien Hugonnier
Title of thesis: “Essays on Asset Pricing with Reference Heterogeneity”
Placement: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Michael Hasler
Thesis director: Julien Hugonnier
Title of thesis:“Essays in Information-Based Asset Pricing”
Placement: University of Toronto, Canada
2012
Jan Peter Kulak
Thesis director: Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Title of thesis: “Essays in Financial Economics”
Placement: Procredit Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2010
Philip Valta
Thesis director: Erwan Morellec
Title of thesis: “Corporate Finance, Asset Returns, and Credit Risk”
Placement: HEC Paris, France
Rodolfo Javier Prieto Katunaric
Thesis director : Julien Hugonnier
Title of thesis: “Essays on Equilibrium Asset Pricing”
Placement: Boston University, USA
2009
Elise Payzan-Le Nestour
Thesis director: Peter Bossaerts
Title of thesis: “Essays on Individual Decision Making under Uncertainty”
Placement: University of New South Wales