Financial Economics
Research in the Financial Economics (FE) programme covers:
Financial Markets
- Pricing of Securities and Derivatives
- Asset Pricing and Business Cycles
- Microstructure and Regulation of Markets
- Financial Decision Making
- International Finance
Corporate Finance
- Financial Structure, Security Design and and Firms’ Decisions
- Going Public
- Corporate Control and Governance
Banking
- Financial Intermediation
- Bank Supervision and Regulation
- Banking, Financial Markets, and Economic Activity
The Financial Economics Programme is directed by Franklin Allen (Imperial College, London).
Fellows and Affiliates in the FE Programme meet annually at the European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets (ESSFM). Hosted since 1991 by the Studienzentrum Gerzensee, ESSFM includes daily seminars in which participants present their work, as well as less formal seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. A substantial amount of time is reserved for independent work and collaborative research, which provides participants with a unique opportunity to interact and discuss each other's research. In addition, every Symposium features 'focus sessions', each of which concentrates on the latest developments at the research frontier in a specific area of research.
Recent Symposia include:
- Gerzensee, 18-29 July 2016
- Gerzensee, 13-24 July 2015
- Gerzensee, 14-25 July 2014
- Gerzensee, 15-26 July 2013
- Gerzensee, 16-27 July 2012
- Gerzensee, 18-29 July 2011
- Gerzensee, 19-30 July 2010
- Gerzensee, 13-24 July 2009
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