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Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance

Thesis Presentations

Students of the MSc UZH ETH in QF have to make a 30 minutes presentation of their thesis within 4 weeks after the submission of the Master's thesis. This presentation is open to the public and is officially announced.

Master's Theses 2024

 Name

Thesis Title

Time

Place

Maria B. Bianchi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Optimal risk-sharing across a network of insurance companies Thu, 8.8.2024, 10:00 am UZH, online

Kristof Kleschpis

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

     Navigating Interest Rate Dynamics: The Role of News Sentiment in the Affine Arbitrage-Free Term Structure Model Framework Thu, 8.8.2024, 8:00 am UZH, online

Zihan Zhang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Enhancing Correlation Estimation Methods for Elliptically Distributed Variables Wed, 24.7.2024, 10:30 am UZH, online

Marc Parker

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

A Signature exploration of Econometrics Thu, 27.6.2024, 17:00 ETH, online

Yuhan Jiang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mario Wüthrich)

Premium Control in Insurance Companies: Insights from Reinforcement Learning Thu, 20.6.2024, 10:00 am ETH, online

Natasha Tarunadjaja

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Forecasting High-Frequency Futures via Deep Learning Thu, 6.6.2024, 11:00 am UZH, online

Pablo Duce Cabeza

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Market Regime Identification in Cryptocurrency Markets using Time Series Signatures Wed, 27.5.2024, 10:00 UZH, online

Jihao Zhang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Delia Coculescu)

Bid-Ask Prices of Options under Exponential Lévy Model in a Two-Price Economy Wed, 29.5.2024, 9:00 UZH, online

Anna Tcirkina

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Dynamic Risk Exposures of Hedge Funds and the Effect of Macroeconomic Conditions Thu, 23.5.2024, 9:30 am UZH, online

Ruidong Wei

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Reinforcement Learning for Bitcoin Trading with New Features Tue, 7.5.2024, 9:00 am UZH, online

Nikola Milivojevic

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Statistical Arbitrage Using Vine Copulas: A Flexible Approach to Pairs Trading Mon, 6.5.2024, 14:00 UZH, online

Cameron Storey

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)

Navigating Interest Rate Markets in a Changing Monetary Landscape Tue, 30.4.2024, 14:00 UZH, online

Yuzhi Mao

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Predicting Stock Return Direction using Custom Loss Functions Mon, 22.4.2024, 11:00 UZH, online

Juraj Zelman

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Reinforcement Learning for High-Frequency Market Making Mon, 25.3.2024, 17:00 ETH, online

Jan Komisarczyk

(Supervisor: Prof Dr. Ryan Cotterell)

Financial Intelligence Leveraging Open AI's Language Models Wed, 14.2.2024, 10:00 ETH, online

Vladimir Solvyev

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Enhancing Portfolio Allocation through Sentiment Analysis Tue, 30.1.2024, 10:00 UZH, online

 

Master's Theses 2023

Name Thesis Title Time Place

Angela Du

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Navigating the Comments with BERT: Social Media's Effect on ESG Ratings Wed, 20.12.2023, 12:30 UZH, online

Xinyu Shen

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Decoding Financial Reports: Leveraging Machine Learning for Future Performance Prediction Tue, 19.12.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Urime Destani

(Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Pablo Koch Medina)

Evaluation of the Square-Root-of-Time Rule for Estimating Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall Fri, 15.12.2023, 9:00 am UZH, online

Vivian Nange Li

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)

  The Impact of Liquidity on EUR-OIS Rates and Implications on Forward Overnight Rates

Mon, 20.11.2023, 14:00 pm

UZH, online

Dominic Krummenacher

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Dynamics of News Sentiment and Equity Market Volatility Fri, 10.11.2023, 16:15 pm UZH, online

Yafei Liu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

An Innovative Way to Generate Views for Black-Litterman Model: a Combination of Pairs Trading and the Black-Litterman Model Fri, 29.9.2023, 10:30 am UZH, online

Adrian Sulo Cravotta

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Machine Learning Interpretability in Asset Pricing Wed, 27.9.2023, 12:00 am UZH, online

Younghoon Kim

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudio Tessone)

Capital Adequacy Ratios of Decentralized Finance Protocols Tue, 26.9.2023, 9:30 am UZH, onsite

Lukas Dekker

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Protective Closing Strategy for Option Selling via Deep Reinforcement Learning Thu, 31.8.2023, 11:00 am UZH, online

Luca Aschmann

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patrick Cheridito)

Meta-Labeling Architectures for Return Classification Fri, 25.8.2023, 12:00 ETH, online

Dennis Arend

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Option Trading using Implied and Breakeven Volatility Fri, 25.8.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Wouter van Dijk

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Pattern and Signal Detection using Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading Thu, 24.8.2023, 12:00 am UZH, online

Weixian Nie

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Comparison of Value-at-Risk using regime-switching GARCH models for industrial metals futures Wed 23.8.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Christoph Mueck

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Post-Jump Return Dynamics and News Sentiment Thu, 10.8.2023, 17:00 UZH, online

Jonathan Baker

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Can Machines Learn to Smile? Forecasting Implied Volatility Movements: A Machine Learning Approach Fri, 4.8.2023, 9:00 am UZH, online

Franciele Sampaio dos Santos Safra

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Cheap talk in the MSCI World Index: Portfolio and constituents' alignment with net-zero-emission goals using ClimateBERT Wed, 19.7.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Ernest Digore

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Extensions on the Fractional Differencing Methodology for Portfolio Construction Fri, 7.7.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Haoran Zhu

(Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Mesuring Credit Risk using Quantile Risk Measures Wed, 28.6.2023, 18:00 UZH, online

Chongshuo Zhai

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

CME Term SOFR benchmark replication: an empirical analysis Mon, 26.6.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Jin Zhang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Enhancing COMFORT with Fractional Difference: An Empirical Study Fri, 16.6.2023, 10:00 am UZH, online

Fedor Doval

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Comparison between a deterministic and stochastic approach in modelling the behavioural maturity of non-maturing deposits (NMD) Fri, 2.6.2023, 11:00 am UZH, online

Sabina Georgescu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Deep SPX & VIX Smile Calibration under Rough Volatility Thu, 25.5.2023, 12:00 UZH, online

Julian Fischer

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Currency Hedging Strategies for Bond Portfolios Mon, 8.5.2023, 15:00 UZH, online

Egemen Erdogdu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patrick Cheridito)

Analysis of the Distribution of Corporate Defaults with Bayesian Methods Fri, 5.5.2023, 11:00 ETH, online

Ting Wai Cheung

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Dietl)

Can "Moneyball" Work in Football? An Analysis on Football Player's Performances and Valuations Wed, 3.5. 2023, 14:00 UZH, online

Robin Wegmüller

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Systematic exposure assessment using NLP and textual reporting data Thu, 20.4.2023, 12:00 UZH, online

Tien-Lin Chou-Huang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolf)

Reinforcement Learning for Minimum Variance Portfolios Tue, 28.3.2023, 16:00 UZH, online

Mukundhan Jayaraman

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Optimal Stop Loss Placement for Intraday Futures Trading Mon, 23.1.2023, 15:00 UZH, online

Sophia Gläser

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Carbon Tax Uncertainty Wed, 18.1.2023, 12:00 UZH, online

Master's Theses 2022

Name Thesis Title Time Place

Mathias Ruoss

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Option Return Classification with Machine Learning Tue, 20.12.2022, 17:00 UZH, online

Jukka Aleksi Ranta-Pere

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Forecasting and Trading Volatility Based on the MIDAS Model Wed. 14.12.2022, 17:00 UZH, online

Charles Barbizet

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Kübler)

Deep Learning in Corporate Bonds Pricing Mon, 5.12.2022, 10:00 UZH, online

Alexandru Petrescu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

The Information Content of Currrency Options Mon, 28.11.2022, 14:00 UZH, online

Sven Rosenthal

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

On Inductive Bias towards Multi-Task Learning of L2-Regularized ReLU Networks Fri, 4.11.2022, 16:00 ETH, online

Richard Breitschopf

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patrick Cheridito)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Trade Execution Fri, 28.10.2022, 10:00 ETH, online

Konrad Müller

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Deep Asset Liability Management Mon, 24.10.2022, 10:00 ETH, online

Adam Takacs

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Reinforcement Learning for Exotic Derivatives Hedging Wed, 28.9.2022, 11:00 UZH, online

Sven Spa

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ce Zhang)

Augmenting Multilingual Language Models with Human Reading Behavior

Mon,12.9.2022, 9:00 ETH, online

Min Yang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Recognizing Technical Patterns with Images Fri, 9.9.2022, 10:00 UZH, online

Georgios Avgoustinos

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Comparison of Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in Modelling Time-Varying Volatility

Wed, 24.8.2022,

17:00

UZH, online

Géraldine Christen

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

The Effects of Liquidity on Risk Measurement

Mon, 25.7.2022,

17:00

UZH, online

Max Cejka

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)

Financial and Managerial Incentives to Recyle Tantalum, a Strategic Metal, from Electronic Waste: A Real Options Analysis Tue, 12.7.2022, 14:00 UZH, online

Malte Schlosser

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Options and Bubbles: An analysis of market cycles and bubble indicators with application to an options strategy Fri, 8.7.2022, 10:00 UZH, online

Stefano Nicoli

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Deep Portfolio Optimization Mon, 27.6.2022, 17:00 UZH, online

Leo Ajdinovic

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Benefits, risks and capital efficiency consideration of a reinsurer's investment strategy with EUR liabilities and USD assets Mon, 2.5.2022, 17:00 UZH, online

Run Shen

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Exploring the Use of Meta-labeling in Financial Markets Mon, 4.4.2022, 17.00 UZH, online

Jordan Seligmann

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Forecasting Optimal Gross Leverage for Long-Short Portfolios Tue, 29.3.2022, 10:00 UZH, online

Jasper Grootscholten

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Toward Deep Sector Rotation Fri. 11.1.2022, 11:15 UZH, online

Enea Monzio Compagnoni

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Learning Rough Dynamics: A Randomized Signature Approach Fri, 21.1.2022, 17:00 ETH, online

 

Master's Theses 2021

Name Thesis Title Time Place

Shuang Zhao

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Improving Factor-Based Quantitative Investing by Forecasting Company Fundamentals with Earnings Call Transcripts Wed, 22.12.2021, 8:15 UZH, online

Akhilesh Mathur

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)

Optimizing Algorithmic Trading Strategies Through Reinforcement Learning Fri, 17.12.2021, 15:00 UZH, online

Hengyu Dai

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Short-term-Long-term Portfolio Optimization Trade-Off Mon, 06.12.2021, 17:00 UZH, online

Mauricio da Costa Pereira

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Portfolio Reconstruction: An Investigation of Brazilian Investment Funds Mon, 29.11.2021, 17:00 UZH, online

Filip Sprusansky

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Scenario Generation via Generative Adversarial Networks Mon, 08.11.2021, 17:00 UZH, online

Silvia Forcina Barrero

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Comparative analysis of Machine Learning methods for the estimation of Probability of Default Tue, 19.10.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Paolo Pace

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Learning to Manage the Risk that Matters Tue, 28.9.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Francesco Ferrari

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Pricing Autocallables in a Heston-like Local-Stochastic Volatility Model Tue, 21.9.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Jiacheng Chen

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Measuring innovation: possible factors and the data envelopment analysis Mon, 16.8.2021, 17:00 UZH, online

Yixuan Du

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Anchor Regression in Asset Pricing Mon, 12.7.2021, 10:00 UZH, online

Yuan Chen

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolf)

Large-scale Portfolio Selection with Turnover Constraints Thu, 8.7.2021, 16:00 UZH, online

Emil Ekblom

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Market Volatility Timing Using Gamma Fri, 25.6.2021, 16:15 UZH, online

Wenxuan Zhang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Option pricing with stochastic volatility model versus machine learning algorithms Tue, 8.6.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Adam Varkonyi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo Munari)

The impact of solvency regulation on the investment behavior of financial institutions Mon, 7.6.2021, 9:00 UZH, online

Yan Yangchun

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Non-Linear Deep Hedging Wed, 26.5.2021, 13:00 ETH, online

Romain Cece

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

The Relation Between Implied and Realised Volatility Risk Premia Fri, 7.5.2021, 16:15 UZH, online

Merel Turksema

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel)

The Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Firm Performance Fri, 7.5.2021, 12:15 ETH, online

Vladimir Saramet

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Short-term Electricity Price Forcasting using Stack curves Tue, 27.4.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Aleksandr Tukallo

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Optimal Execution with Reinforcement Learning Mon, 26.4.2021, 13:00 ETH, online

Rui Wang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patrick Cheridito)

Discriminating modelling approaches for Point in Time Economic Scenario Generation Mon, 26.4.2021, 10:00 ETH, online
Federico Pepe (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella) An improved feature screening technique for asset selection in the US market Tue, 16.2.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Shijing Cai

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Statistical Learning and Testing for Optimal Portfolio Strategy Choice Tue, 26.1.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

Zhiwei Cheng

(Supervisor, Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Factor Tilts of Risk-Efficient Portfolios via Regularization Wed, 6.1.2021, 12:00 UZH, online

Yongjie Chen

(Supevisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Do Uncertainty Indices Matter for Asset Pricing - A Machine-Learning Approach Wed, 6.1.2021, 11:00 UZH, online

 

Master's Theses 2020

Name Thesis Title Time Place

Michail Ntaoutis

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Risk Sharing: between profiatbility ans systemic risk Mon, 21.12.2020, 12.00 UZH, online

Valentin Geoffroy

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Why is American Option Pricing so Complicated? Mon, 21.12.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

Thomas Lagos

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Machine Learning Applications for Reverse Stress Testing Mon, 14.12.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

Matej Privoznik

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Option Pricing and Implied Volatility Mon, 7.12.2020, 13:30 UZH, online

Alejandro Angeli

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

On Minimum Drawdown Portfolios Mon, 7.12.2020, 12:30 UZH, online

Michal Kobak

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Financial Time Series Clustering for Portfolio Optimization Mon, 30.11.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

Silvano Marchesi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Kübler)

Deep No-Arbitrage Asset Pricing Tue, 10.11.2020, 10:00 UZH, online

David Anderson

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Pricing of American Options in a Market Making Environment Using Artificial Neural Networks Mon, 12.10.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

David Haab

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Jump Adjusted Optimal Currency Exposure Wed, 16.9.2020, 14:00 UZH, online

Sayuli Drouard

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Didier Sornette)

Effects of controlling or exploiting financial bubbles on market dynamics, in the framework of an agent-based model Thu, 10.09.2020 ETH, online

Raphael Burkhardt

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Joint Optimization of Assets and Currency Exposures in International Markets Tue, 08.09.2020, 9:00 UZH, online

Zita Marossy

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo Andrea Munari)

Frequency Analysis for the Detection of Financial Market Cycles in Risk Factor Models Wed, 02.09.2020, 9:00 UZH, online

Daria Filippova

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mario V. Wüthrich)

Modelling Propensity to Type 2 Diabetes using Medical Data Tue, 01.09.2020, 10:00 ETH, online

Patrick Lucescu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Testing stock returns predictability using option data: A machine learning approach Thu, 27.08.2020, 12:00 UZH, online

Riccardo Tegazi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Machine Learning in International Asset Pricing Thu, 27.08.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

Melanie Treyer

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ashkan Nikeghbali)

Deep Generative Models for Credit Risk Analysis Wed, 26.08.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

Martynas Mazrimas 

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Approximation schemes for stochastic differential equations with applications to derivatives pricing and Greek estimations Wed, 05.08.2020, 11:00 UZH, online

Xin Li

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo-Andrea Munari)

Backtesting Expected Shortfall with Multinomial Value at Risk Tests

Thu, 30.07.2020

8:30

UZH, online

Miha Kebe

(Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

High Frequency Effects of News Sentiment on FX Shocks Wed, 22.7.2020, 13:00 UZH, online

Pierluigi Vallarino

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Enter RAX! A new Risk Aversion Index for the US Tue, 21.07.2020, 12:00 UZH, online

Richard Gramblicka

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Deep Hedging in an Environment with Market Impact Mon, 29.06.2020, 10:00 ETH, online

Jiaxuan Zhao

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo Andrea Munari)

Estimation of Value at Risk in Conditional Models Thu, 25.06.2020, 9:00 UZH, online

Marko Vasilic

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Who is on the Other Side? Thu, 23.04.2020, 17:00 UZH, online

Nadya Dettwiler

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Steven Ongena)

Empirical Evidence on the Pricing of Physical Climate Risk in Financial Markets Wed, 08.04.2020, 10:45 UZH, online

Robin Steiger

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)

The Behavior of High-Frequency Traders Under Adverse Market Conditions Thu, 27.03.2020,10:30 UZH, online

Simon-Pierre Gadoury

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo Munari)

Performance Analysis and Comparison of Portfolio Immunization Strategies Thu, 09.01.2020, 9:00 UZH, PLD-E-04

Davide Marchini

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Walter Farkas)

Consistent Scenario Generation of Financial Time Series Wed, 27.01.2020, 15:00 UZH, PLD-E-04

 

Master's Theses 2019

Name Thesis Title Time Place

Megi Jaupi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Generative Adversarial Networks for multivariate return simulation and robust portfolio optimization Tue, 09.12.2019 UZH, PLD-E-04

Karim J. Ferchichi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Kübler)

Mean Variance Portfolio Construction with Recurrent Neural Networks Thu, 05.12.2019 UZH, KO2-F-156

Aron Horvath

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Augmenting Factor Investment  Strategies with ESG-Scores Wed, 04.12.2019 UZH, KOL-F-103

Danai Spilioti

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Industry Sentiment effect on the cross-section of Industry Returns and Applications in Portfolio Construction Tue, 03.12.2019 UZH, KOL-N-1 EV

Sebastian Arrenberg

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)

Algorithmic trading strategies applied to cryptocurrencies Mon, 25.11.19 UZH, PLR-F-111

Florin Onder

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

The Cost of Hedging with Options Mon, 30.09.2019 UZH, FRE-D-15

Andrea Ritzmann

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christiane Barz)

Risk-Averse Network Revenue Management Tue, 17.09.2019, 14:00 UZH, MOO -E-006

Ioannis Moustakis

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kjell Nyborg)

Derivatives Hedging and Bank Lending: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies Wed, 11.9.2019, 17:30 UZH, PLR-H-111

Federico Felician

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Approaches to assess similarity of scenarios constituting tail losses in portfolio loss models Fri, 06.09.2019, 10:00 UZH, KO2-F-155

Johan Auster

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

On the Diffusion Operator Integral Method and the Pricing of American Options Wed, 04.09.2019, 15:00 UZH, FRE-D-14

Till Frederik Furger

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

ESG Criteria - Characteristic or Covariance? An Alternative Approach to Optimally Integrate ESG into Equity Investing Fri, 30.08.2019, 11:00 UZH, PLR-H-111

Lorenzo Linardi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Multi-Period Behavioral Portfolio Optimization Fri, 23.08.2019, 10:00 UZH, AND-2-46

Jiani Zhou

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

CVA pricing and sensitivities with wrong-way risk in structural credit risk models for commodities Tue, 13.08.2019, 14:00

UZH, AND- 2.48

Zan Zuric

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Deep hedging under rough volatility models Fri, 02.08.2019, 12:30 ETH, HG G 43

Lukas Fässler

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

The Effect of Autocall Features on Structured Products Fri, 19.07.2019, 13:00

UZH, PLD- E-04

Guillaume Bourquenoud

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)

Variance-based Risk Overlays Tue, 16.07.2019, 10:00 UZH, PLD- E-04

Jiani Zhou

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo-Andrea Munari)

Risk and Return Replication of Trend Following Strategies

Tue, 16.07.2019, 9:30

UZH, AND 2-48

Fang Zhang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo-Andrea Munari)

Estimating and Backtesting Risk Measures Tue, 16.07.2019, 8:30 UZH, AND 2-48

George Negulescu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Optimizations to Monte Carlo Option Pricing Algorithms for Exotic Options Mon, 15.07.2019, 11:00 UZH, PLR-H-111

Sining Liu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ce Zhang)

Sequential Data Analysis Using Sum-Product Networks Fri, 28.06.2019, 14:00 ETH, Cab D78

Alice Thesling

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

The use of Independent Component Analysis for Financial Asset Allocation Tue, 18.06.2019, 10:15 UZH, PLD-E-04

Maurizio Di Lucente

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Portfolio Optimization using Deep Conditional Portfolio Sorts Mon, 27.05.2019, 8:00 UZH, PLD-E-04

Nikolay Grabchev

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

IFRS 9 Point-in-Time Probability of Default Modelling with Focus on Mortgages and Significant Increase in Credit Risk
Mon, 06.05.2019, 10:00 UZH, PLD-E-04

Linda Isabella Hain

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

Joint Non-Gaussian Cholesky-GARCH Modeling of Asset Returns and Factors with Applications in Portfolio Optimization

Wed, 24.04.2019,

16:00

UZH, PLD-E-04

Yinhao Zhou

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)

Fractional Differentiation Method for Financial Market Predictions

Fri, 05.04.2019,

15:00

UZH,

MOO-E-006

Hassan Sadeghi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Risk Measures in Cryptocurrency Market Thu, 14.03.2019, 10:30 h

UZH, AND-2.44

Avdo Shabani

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ashkan Nikeghbali)

Collateral dynamics and repo haircut modeling in financial networks in presence of rehypothecation

Fri, 08.02.2019,

14:00 h

UZH,

KOL-G-210-EV

Jakub Kowalczyk

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Pablo Koch-Medina)

Effects of leverage, carry costs of capital and valuation methods on optimal dividend policy Fri, 01.02.2019, 8:00 h UZH, BIN-1-E.01.EV

 

Master's Theses 2018

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Linyi Jia
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Estimating Extreme Risks in Interest Rate Mon,
17.12.2018
16.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-222EV
Maria Gkaragkouni
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
A Comparative Analysis of the Regulatory Capital Regimes of Banks and Insurance Companies Wed,
12.12.2018
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Daria Sakhanda
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Larsson)
Risk Aggregation for Private Equity Investments Wed,
05.12.2018
15.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Michael Giegrich
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Topics in Deep Hedging Fri,
30.11.2018
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Rong Huang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift - Enhanced Tue,
13.11.2018
16.15 h
UZH,
KOL-G-212 EV
Victor E. Lagomarsino
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Expansion-Based Methods for VIX Option Pricing Mon,
05.11.2018
15.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Nhat Quang Pham Huu
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Didier Sornette)
Back-testing of trading strategies based on the Financial Crisis Observatory Output Mon,
22.10.2018
14.00 h
ETH,
SEC E3 (Scheuchzerstrasse 7)
Cédric Piaget
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Incorporating Expert Judgement to Model Non-Maturing Deposits Wed,
05.09.2018
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Kuan Xu
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
A Comparison between Monte Carlo methods and finite difference method for structured products: Application to the Target Accumulation Redemption Note in Asian Markets Fri,
31.08.2018
14.00 h
UZH,
AND-2.44
Yu Chen
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cosimo-Andrea Munari)
Callable bonds in internal models for insurers: pricing and risk Mon,
27.08.2018
09.00 h
UZH,
AND-2.46
Chengjie Zhou
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Managing Portfolio Over the Business Cycle Thu,
16.08.2018
14.15 h
UZH,
RAI-J-031
Felix Ohswald
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Ewerhart)
Bitcoin Mining Pools Thu,
09.08.2018
14.00 h
UZH,
SOF-05
Pascal Patrik Boll
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Practitioner Approaches for Real Options - A Comparison with Traditional Real Option Modelling Thu,
12.07.2018
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Naomi Poole
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Hierarchical Risk Parity Wed,
11.07.2018
10.15 h
UZH,
MOO-E-06
Thomas Obrist
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Some Aspects of Deep Portfolio Optimization Tue,
10.07.2018
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Andreas Kälin
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Sounding the Pareto Frontier Tue,
19.06.2018
10.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-06
Patrick Aschermayr
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Inference Algorithms for Hidden (Semi) Markov Models Mon,
11.06.2018
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Qimeng Yin
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Portfolio Strategies with Cryptocurrency Wed,
30.05.2018
10.15 h
UZH,
RAA-E-21
Jan Krepl
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Supervised Learning for Financial Market Predictions Tue,
22.05.2018
12.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Yang Shuo
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Kübler)
Incorporating Firm Characteristics and Trading Strategies into the Black-Litterman Model Tue,
08.05.2018
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Simon Ruetz
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Schweizer)
On viability of financial markets under enlargements of filtration Tue,
08.05.2018
13.30 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Stefano Fabbri
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Capturing The Momentum Effect: A Machine Learning Approach Fri,
27.04.2018
15.00 h
UZH,
GLT-A-03
Qian Wang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Neural-Network Architectures and Learning Methods for Financial News Understanding Tue,
24.04.2018
12.15 h
UZH,
GLT-A-04
Florian Spychiger
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe)
Consistent and Self-Sustaining Incentives in a Blockchain-Based Solution to the Lemons Problem Tue,
27.02.2018
11.30 h
UZH,
Ifi 1.D.06
Murat Sümer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Return Drivers of Private Equity Investments Tue,
20.02.2018
14.00 h
UZH,
KOL-F-103
Tryggvi Thoroddsen
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Proof of Concept for Know Your Customer optimization using Distributed Ledger Technology Thu,
15.02.2018
12.30 h
UZH,
MOO-E-06
Zifan Zhang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Larsson)
Quanto Adjustment and Volatility Surfaces Thu,
08.02.2018
17.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Pasquale Riviezzo
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Calibration of the Implied Volatility Surface using High-Frequency Data Fri,
02.02.2018
11.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Martin Waser
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
A hybrid least-squares support vector machines based local neuro-fuzzy model using a feed-forward artificial neural network for class membership weight generation Mon,
29.01.2018
13.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
 

Master's Theses 2017

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Wei Guo
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Machine Learning Approach to Detect Stock Return Anomalies Thu,
21.12.2017
10.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-006
Victoria Luisa Keller
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Pricing of American Options by Markov Chain Methods Wed,
20.12.2017
10.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Antonio Polino
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ce Zhang)
Neural network compression via distillation and quantization Tue,
28.11.2017
17.30 h
ETH,
CAB-72
Alex de Haas
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Portfolio Optimization with Market Impact Costs Tue,
28.11.2017
10.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-06
Rasia Naidoo
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Emerging Market Monetary Policy and the Carry Trade Tue,
14.11.2017
19.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-203
Daniel Grosshans
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Non-Parametric Estimation of State Price Densities Thu,
02.11.2017
13.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-210-EV
Florian Rainer Grünewald
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Point-in-Time Loss Given Default modelling for Banking products Fri,
27.10.2017
16.00 h
UZH,
KOL-F-103
Manuel Känzig
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Does portfolio allocation using skewness and kurtosis create value for asset managers? - An empirical analysis Tue,
26.09.2017
11.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-006
Gianluca De Nard
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolf)
Linear and Nonlinear Shrinkage Estimation of the Covariance Matrix: Portfolio Optimization for Benchmarked Managers Mon,
18.09.2017
15.15 h
UZH,
KOL-N-1 EV
Stefan Altmann
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices Thu,
14.09.2017
11.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-006
Tobias Enders
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Pablo Koch)
Risk Measures and Tail Risk Tue,
29.08.2017
09.00 h
UZH,
AND-2.48
Othmane Hifdi
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Path Signatures in Regression Analysis Tue,
15.08.2017
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Sophie Carolina Kolberg
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Portfolios from Sorts - Bayesian Methods for Portfolio Optimization Fri,
28.07.2017
11.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-006
Alexander Wehrli
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Didier Sornette)
Market Impact in a Multivariate Hawkes Process Model Thu,
20.07.2017
10.00 h
SEC E3,
SE Kasernenstrasse 11
Elena Mateva
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jean-Charles Rochet)
Bank Capital and Monetary Policy Transmission Thu,
15.06.2017
12.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Jonathan Koh
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
An Extreme Value Theory Based Model for some Proxies of Hail Tue,
30.05.2017
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-F-33.1
Simon Wasle
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Multi-objective Optimization of Reinsurance Treaties Fri,
05.05.2017
14.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-06
Rebecca Westphal
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Larsson)
Empirical Analysis of High-Frequency Financial Data under the Rough Fractional Stochastic Volatility Model Wed,
03.05.2017
14.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Fabian S. F. Thut
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mete Halil Soner)
Portfolio Tracking with Market Impact Tue,
18.04.2017
14.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Filip Moric
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Machine Learning Methods applied in Credit Risk Wed,
12.04.2017
08.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Tomas Kvasnicka
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Filtering of Jumps Using Wavelet Decomposition: Application to Portfolio Selection Mon,
10.04.2017
10.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Lukas Münstermann
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Impact Investing - What's Behind the Name Tue,
04.04.2017
17.00 h
UZH,
RAA-E-02
Urban Ulrych
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Optimal Hedging of FX Exposure for International Asset Allocation Fri,
10.03.2017
14.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Ivana Primorac
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Higher Moment Swaps Mon,
23.01.2017
10.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
 

Master's Theses 2016

 

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Filip Vojnic-Zelic
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Prediction of Multivariate Asset Returns with Copulas Mon,
19.12.2016
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Martin Stefanik
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Modifications of the Rearrangement Algorithm Thu,
15.12.2016
14.15 h
ETH,
HG-F-26.1
Alexandra Egg
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Robustness of Sustainable Investments Wed,
23.11.2016
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Ming Deng
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Forecasting Financial Time Series Based On Sentiment Analysis Thu,
17.11.2016
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Simon Skok
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Counterparty Risk Management for Central Counterparties after the Global Financial Crisis Tue,
15.11.2016
10.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Milan Cvetkovic
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Alternative Investments in Portfolio Optimization Fri,
07.10.2016
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Oliver Blum
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner)
Refining Value Strategies Fri,
09.09.2016
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Alexander Smirnow
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Risk measures: recent developments and new ideas Thu,
01.09.2016
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Kevin Smith
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Improving the PRS trading strategy by use of Artificial Neural Networks Tue,
30.08.2016
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Zhongheng Chen
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
An Extreme Value Theory-Based Hurricane Model with Application to CAT Bonds Wed,
24.08.2016
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-26.3
Nina Troha
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Optimal investing in marketplace loans Fri,
12.08.2016
11.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Xian Chen
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Modeling Operational Risk Depending on Covariates: An Empirical Investigation Tue,
28.06.2016
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Jan Tepina
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Option Implied Asset Allocation Mon,
27.06.2016
12.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Michal Svaton
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
VIX derivatives pricing: The role of multifactor structure and long memory Wed,
22.06.2016
08.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Kevin Klein
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Order book models and price formation Fri,
17.06.2016
10.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Ueli Hofstetter
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Timing Models for Factor Investing Thu,
09.06.2016
19.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Hasan Karahan
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Cross Section of Stock Returns: on the Empirical Comparison of Investor Sentiment Indexes Thu,
02.06.2016
11.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Jin Sun
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Real-world Pricing and Hedging of Currency Derivatives based on Estimations from Underlying Data under the Benchmark Approach Wed,
01.06.2016
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Joris van der Aa
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Application of Non-Gaussian Non-Elliptic GARCH Modeling to Large-Dimensional High-Frequency Financial Assets Thu,
12.05.2016
18.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Florian Sutter
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
The Pricing of VIX Derivatives: Theory and Empirical Performance Tue,
10.05.2016
12.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Erika Jansson
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Volatility Models Applied in Energy Commodity Markets Thu,
21.04.2016
16.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Antonello Cirulli
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Diversification Benefits Fri,
08.04.2016
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Tom Noppe
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Determining the Predictability of Signals Using Kernel Methods Mon,
14.03.2016
10.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Iosif Faskiotis
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Eurozone debt crisis - the case of Greece: an analysis of imbalances, weak banks and sovereigns and spillover effects Tue,
23.02.2016
08.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Jovan Samardzic
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michel Habib)
Liquidity of Syndicated Loans Wed,
17.02.2016
13.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Meng Chen
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Hedging of Multi-Asset Equity Options Wed,
10.02.2016
14.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Tatyana Soldatova
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Market Implied Dependence Between Life and Market Risks Tue,
26.01.2016
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Jeta Limani
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
On dependence modeling and risk diversification Thu,
14.01.2016
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-E-33.5
 

Master's Theses 2015

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Gereon M. Sommer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Review of data-snooping methods Thu,
17.12.2015
17.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Serge Birri
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Ross' Recovery Theorem and its critics Mon,
14.12.2015
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Devin Heer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Variance reduction through multilevel Monte Carlo simulation Thu,
22.10.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Deyu Ming
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Designing Catastrophe Bonds for Earthquakes in Yunnan Province of China Wed,
14.10.2015
15.00 h
ETH,
ML-E-13
Stephan Krushev
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Conversion and default of contingent bonds - a structural approach Tue,
15.09.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Xiao Ye Zhan
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marloes Maathuis)
Modelling Operational Loss Event Frequencies Wed,
26.08.2015
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Birgit Mairhuber
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Payment Adjustments and Permanence Implications for REDD (+) Mon,
24.08.2015
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Marco Laube
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Trading strategies based on implied volatility: Theory and Implementation Wed,
19.08.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Yitian Yang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Numerical Methods for the Pricing of American and Exotic Options under Affine Jump-diffusions and Time Changed Levy Processes Wed,
19.08.2015
11.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Laurent Oberholzer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Accelerating economics: how GPUs can save you time and money Fri,
10.07.2015
11.00 h
UZH,
MOO-E-006
Rafaela Guberovic
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
A study of financial constraints in a model for systemic risk Wed,
08.07.2015
17.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Alfiya Shamisheva
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Market Risk in Private Equity Portfolios Mon,
06.07.2015
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Patrick S. Walker
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Multivariate Asset Return Modeling Fri,
19.06.2015
13.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Zeynep Boyali
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jean-Charles Rochet)
Measuring Banks' Liquidity: An Empirical Comparison of Liquidity Mismatch Index (LMI) and Liquidity Creation Measure (LCM) Wed,
10.06.2015
11.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Johanna Christina Schreier
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Linearity-Generating Processes - Theory and Application Wed,
03.06.2015
09.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-220
Svea Ludwig
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Presentation Forms and Risk-Taking Behaviour of Investors Wed,
20.05.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Hanlin Yang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Schweizer)
On Quadratic BSDEs with Final Condition in L^2 Wed,
13.05.2015
14.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Cédric Lang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner)
Corporate spin-offs: abnormal stock returns and operating performance improvements Wed,
13.05.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Markus Regez
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Unilateral CVA/DVA pricing with wrong way risk in the energy market Tue,
12.05.2015
13.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Mateusz Wròblewski
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Explaining co-movement with co-mentions in financial media Wed,
06.05.2015
11.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-210
Christian Fiegl
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Perfect Timing: Dynamic Asset Allocation with Online Change Point Detection Tue,
07.04.2015
09.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Eleni Verteouri
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Forecasting Volatility: Causality of Index and Constituents Wed,
25.03.2015
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
David S. Volkmann
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Multivariate ARMA-FIGARCH-MNTS model for portfolio VaR/CVaR prediction Fri,
06.03.2015
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Antoine Lyson
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Law-Invariant Risk Measures Fri,
27.02.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Gianluca Marcoli
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Comparison of market code-books for S&P 500 options Thu,
12.02.2015
14.00 h
UZH,
KOL-F-103
Louis Tisseau des Escotais
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Impact of subsidies on a solar energy investment project Fri,
06.02.2015
09.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-6
Michel Gba
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Optimal Dynamic Currency Hedging Tue,
27.01.2015
11.00 h
UZH,
KOL-F-103
 

Master's Theses 2014

 

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Tim Marahrens
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Sequential Calibration of Option Pricing Models Using Non-Linear Filtering Methods Thu,
11.12.2014
14.00 h
UZH,
KOL-E-13
Thomas Weber
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Scenario generation for risk management - implied volatility dynamics modeling Mon,
08.12.2014
14.00 h
UZH,
KOL-N-1
Stefan Roggo
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Operational risk modeling: analysis of SIX financial and availability losses Mon,
15.09.2014
15.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Pawel Obara
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Pricing and Hedging Contingent Convertible Bonds Wed,
10.09.2014
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Alessandro Zucconi
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Analysis of Sustainability Stock Indexes: The Case of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Mon,
08.09.2014
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Wladimir Weinbender
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Multi-asset option pricing with copulas Mon,
07.07.2014
16.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Wail El Allali
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen)
Extreme statistics for a collection of correlated random variables using Renormalization Group methods Wed,
02.07.2014
15.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Jarred Foster
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders)
Structural estimation using global optimization techniques Mon,
12.05.2014
10.00 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
Ferdinand Langnickel
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens)
Price Predictability in an Evolutionary Finance Model Mon,
31.03.2014
12.15 h
UZH,
KO2-F-172
Ryan Kurniawan
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arnulf Jentzen)
Numerical approximations of stochastic partial differential equations with non-globally Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities Mon,
31.03.2014
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Steven Schärer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Option pricing in illiquid markets Mon,
17.02.2014
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Martin Andersson
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Models for the Dynamics of Implied Volatility Surfaces Wed,
29.01.2014
08.30 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Felix Stang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mete Soner)
Robust Hedging Considering Transaction Costs Mon,
27.01.2014
17.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Sarah Jucker
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Pricing S&P 500 Options under Stochastic Local Volatility Model Thu,
23.01.2014
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Pascal Caversaccio
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Pricing VIX Options with Wishart Matrix Affine Jump Diffusions while Preserving Consistency with SPX Options Mon,
13.01.2014
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
 

Master's Theses 2013

 

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Annina Nef
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Detecting Causality in Multivariate Time Series Tue,
10.12.2013
15.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Benjamin Groth
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Trade-Level CVA Allocation Tue,
05.11.2013
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Anna-Lena Hashagen
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Muhle-Karbe)
The Flesaker-Hughston Model for the Term-Structure of Interest Rates Wed,
23.10.2013
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Michele di Lascio
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Factor Correlation Models: Application to the Capped Volatility Fund Wed,
25.09.2013
11.00 h
UZH,
SOE-E-08
Warrick Poklewski-Koziell
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Inflation Modelling: Risk Premia and Derivative Pricing Tue,
24.09.2013
10.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Anna Stepasova
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jean-Charles Rochet)
A violation of the law of one price: The Case of Heineken and Heineken Holding Mon,
23.09.2013
15.30 h
UZH,
PLD-E-06
Pavel Riabouchkine
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwab)
Computation of Greeks for Calibration and Validation of Financial Market Models Mon,
23.09.2013
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Peter Gracar
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Schweizer)
Aspects of Convex Risk Optimisation Tue,
17.09.2013
14.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Jurij-Andrei Reichenecker
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner)
Pricing of IPOs Mon,
05.08.2013
11.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Mario Dal Col
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Measures and Stock Returns Mon,
08.07.2013
10.45 h
UZH,
RAI-F-041
Luca Trovato
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Risk measures on probabilities Tue,
18.06.2013
14.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Mathis Mörke
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Stochastic Convenience Yield Models and Pricing Commodities: An Empirical Comparison Tue,
04.06.2013
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Patrick Wyss
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
A GARCH Option Pricing Model with Johnson-Su Innovations Mon,
27.05.2013
16.00 h
UZH,
SOE-E-04
Fatima Manaa
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Application of Filtering Methods in Finance Mon,
13.05.2013
10.00 h
UZH,
FRE-D-14
Martin Pleischl
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Detection of financial bubbles with the FTS-GARCH model and extensions Tue,
07.05.2013
14.00 h
UZH,
GLT-A-03
Thomas Cayé
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Single liability claims: stochastic modelling and applications Tue,
30.04.2013
14.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Thomas Eichenberger
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Alternative Risk Transfer of Life Risks - An Investment Opportunity for Swiss Pension Funds? Mon,
29.04.2013
14.00 h
UZH,
HAH-E-10
Gabriel Doyon
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
On Densities of Extreme Value Copulas Tue,
16.04.2013
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Kévin Soobratty
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Pricing of Variable Annuities Mon,
15.04.2013
10.00 h
UZH,
SOE-F-2
Christian Gebauer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Muhle-Karbe)
Optimal portfolio choice in markets with transaction costs: Comparing methods for determining the no-trade region Fri,
12.04.2013
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Delphine Savatier
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Multiple Yield Curve Models Thu,
11.04.2013
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Giorgio Mori
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Study and calibration of a LIBOR forward swap model with stochastic volatility Wed,
20.03.2013
10.00 h
UZH,
KOL-E-21
Andreas Vogel
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Optimal Portfolio Allocation Under Higher Moments in the Black-Litterman Framework Wed,
27.02.2013
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Enqi Liang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
American Option Pricing Using Filtering Mon,
18.02.2013
11.00 h
UZH,
KOL-F-103
Fabian Lutz
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Analysis of the performance of turbulence indicators in the prediction of financial crises Mon,
18.02.2013
10.00 h
UZH,
KOL-F-103
Yuefei Huang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Study of a Distressed Model in Bond Markets Mon,
21.01.2013
17.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Jan Cuonz
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Pricing and Hedging of Commodity Options under SABR model Thu,
17.01.2013
UZH,
PLD-E-04
 

Master's Theses 2012

Name Thesis Title Time Place
István Rédl
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Invariant Measures for Certain Classes of Affine Processes. Tue,
18.12.2012
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Karl Ruzsics
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
A Model for the Pricing of Hurricane Catastrophe Bonds Mon,
17.12.2012
10.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-43
Seth Tolev
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Trend and Mean Reversion Modelling in a Market with Heterogeneous Investors: A Dynamical Systems Approach Mon,
19.11.2012
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Victoriia Skrypka
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts)
Equity Haircut Methodologies Mon,
05.11.2012
13.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Edgar Mathis
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Pricing of Energy Commodity Derivatives Wed,
29.08.2012
11.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Danzhu Shi
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
On the Pricing of Contingent Convertible Bonds and Their Influence on Systemic Risk Fri,
03.08.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Luca Dominedó
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Pricing and Hedging Counterparty Credit Risk Tue,
24.07.2012
15.30 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
Olivier Bachem
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Pricing Variance Swaps and Corridor variance Swaps under General Dividend Streams Tue,
24.07.2012
14.30 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
Roger Rüegg
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Global Tactical Asset Allocation under Heavy-Tailed Distributions, Joint Extremes and Times-Varying Downside Risks Thu,
19.07.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
Kim Schartz
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
The Financialization of the Food Commodities Market and its Impact on Food Prices Tue,
10.07.2012
11.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Florian Müller-Reiter
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Hybrid Options: Finite Elements for Local Volatility with Stochastic Interest Rates Wed,
13.06.2012
12.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Cora Drimus
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Stochastic Volatility Modeling in Energy Markets Fri,
08.06.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Mark Lickes
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
COSI Certificates and Exchange Traded Funds: An Investment Decision Thu,
31.05.2012
11.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-203
Robbin Tops
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwab)
Numerical Pricing of American Options for general Bivariate Lévy Models Wed,
23.05.2012
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Dandan Zhao
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Co-integration in commodity markets Tue,
22.05.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-220
Victor Fedyashov
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mete Soner)
Utility Maximization and Equilibrium with Habit Formation Wed,
02.05.2012
13.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Ren Liu
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Muhle-Karbe, Prof. Dr. Mete Soner)
Portfolio Selection under Transaction Costs and Leverage Constraints Wed,
04.04.2012
14.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Michèle Sennhauser
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michel Habib)
Efficiency in the Swiss Insurance Industry: An Empirical Analysis Mo,
26.03.2012
16.30 h
UZH,
KOL-H-309
Jamil Bouallai
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Sovereign credit risk with exotic contingent claims analysis Do,
15.03.2012
10.15 h
UZH,
SOE-F-8
Danting Liu
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paolo Vanini, Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Active Management of Delta Portfolio Do,
01.03.2012
18.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Thuy-Mai Hoang
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Pricing of a derivative contract hedging an environmental investment Mo,
29.02.2012
11.00 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
John Reichenbächer
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Convex order properties of discrete realized variance and applications to variance Mo,
27.02.2012
10.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Thomas Strahm
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Anatomy of Arbitrage in Commodity Markets Mi,
22.02.2012
11.00 h
UZH,
KOL-H-320
Ilya Dubovets
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Muhle-Karbe)
Pricing of Options on Realized Variance in Affine Stochastic Volatility Models Mo,
13.02.2012
09.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19
Felix Fattinger
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney)
Open Interest based Measures of Informed trading in Option Markets Wed,
25.01.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
 

Master's Theses 2011

 

Name Thesis Title Time Place
Marie Delalay
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Urs Birchler)
Client targeting by microfinance institutions in China Mo,
21.11.2011
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Sebastiano Rossi
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paolo Vanini)
FX Algorithmic Trading Tu,
15.11.2011
16.30 h
UZH,
KOL-N-1/2
Alessandro Gnoatto
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)
Yield Curve Shapes for Affine Processes on Positive Definite Matrices Tu,
20.09.2011
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Felix Matthys
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Endogenous Markov Switching GARCH model Mo,
19.09.2011
14.00 h
UZH,
SOE-F-7
Simone Bernardi
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Dispersion Trade under Simple Moment Component Analysis Mo,
19.09.2011
12.45 h
UZH,
KOL-G-220
Stefania Colangelo
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold, Dr. Georg Pristas)
An alternative method to Monte Carlo Simulation for pricing complex derivative financial instruments Mo,
19.09.2011
12.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-220
Christian Raemy
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Prediction of derivatives prices using Greeks and investigation of the Malliavin Calculus method for the calculation of Greeks Fr,
02.09.2011
14.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Matthias Wyss
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Affine Commodity Term Structure Modeling Fr,
26.08.2011
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Jovan Stojkovic
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)
Correlation Processes: Applications to Default Intensity Models Mo,
22.08.2011
17.00 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
Daniel Velasquez
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)
Empirical Option Pricing Using High Frequency Data Mon,
11.07.2011
 
William Vettorato
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Real Rate Swaptions: pricing and calibration Fr,
01.07.2011
17.30 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Kinga Kaczmarek
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Empirical analysis of fixed income products: the role of interest rates and spread duration in ALM Mo,
27.06.2011,
16.00 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Nico Achtsis
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas)
Optimal execution with temporary and permanent impact functions Fr,
15.04.2011,
13.30 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Daniel Kövi
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwab)
hp Finite Element Method pricing algorithms for lookback options in Lévy markets Fr,
15.04.2011,
14.30 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2
Erwan Croguennoc
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Hiptmair)
Alternating Direction Implicit Splitting Methods for 3D PDE with Applications for the Dupire Equation Mo,
21.02.2011,
10.15 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.2