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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

Sergey Mirzoev

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

HAR vs Machine Learning: A practical approach Wed, 11.12.2024, 11:00 am UZH, online

Yunfei Xu

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Nonparametric and Parametric Approaches of Calculating Capial Adequacy Tue, 26.11.2024, 11:00 am UZH, online

Alexander Falk

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

The Impact of Collective GARCH Parameter Estimation on the Predictive Accuracy and Estimation Efficiency of COMFORT-CCC and -RSDC Models Wed, 30.10.2024, 8:00 am UZH, online

Aleksei Zahkharov

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann)

Magic Volatility Cube Tue, 15.10.2024, 13:00 am ETH, online

Julius Raschke

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Inspirations from Multi-Strategy Pod shops Wed, 9.10.2024, 10:00 am UZH, online

Andreas Stavropoulos

(Supervisor Prof. Dr. Martin Schweizer)

Aspects of Bubbles in Financial Markets Tue, 8.10.2024, 13:00 ETH, room HG G 43

Jannic Cavegn

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Beyond LIBOR: Redefining Structured Products on Interest Rates in the OIS Framework Wed, 25.9.2024, 11:00 am UZH, online

Roberto Chávez García

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Paolella)

A multivariate model for risk factor-based global currency hedging Fri, 20.9.2024, 14:00 UZH, online

Iris Bucher

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Robustness of Machine Learning Outperformance in Asset Pricing Wed, 4.9.2024, 12:00 am UZH, online

Aaron Hauser

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

An Empirical Analysis of the Performance of Affine vs. Non-Affine Stochastic Volatility Models for the Pricing of Structured Products Wed. 28.8.2024, 11:00 am UZH, online

Francesco Corsini

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erich Walter Farkas)

Volatility Trading with (V) VIX Term Structure Mon, 26.8.2024, 10:00 am UZH, online

Nicholas Cosentini

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold)

Enhancing Stock Price Prediction Accuracy with Generative Adversarial Networks Thu, 22.8.2024, 9:00 am UZH, online

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