Activity Report 2008-9 [PDF] - Swiss Finance Institute

Swiss Finance Institute FacultySince its creation in 2006, Swiss Finance Institute has worked with itsacademic partners to hire 10 new professors at both the junior andsenior level, bringing the total of SFI faculty to 50 in June 2009.One of the Swiss Finance Institute’s ambitions is to reach top rankamong the finance research institutes in Europe. With a faculty of 50professors, Swiss Finance Institute is well on its way to reaching this goalafter only a few short years of activity. Almost one half of our faculty holdSFI chairs or fellowships, attesting to the outstanding research work thatour faculty members produce on a regular basis. Together with the restof the SFI Faculty members they form what is one of the largest andmost productive research groups in finance in Europe. Our faculty bodyrepresents an extraordinary, varied concentration of competencies.This expertise is transferred to individuals through an innovative andrigorous PhD curriculum, executive education as well as being presentedon a regular basis to industry experts through our knowledgetransfer series. It is also the case that the large majority of our facultyintervene in the bachelor and master programs offered by the SwissFinance Institute partner university institutes.2008 was a year of changes for SFI. Several faculty members left ourpartner universities following what can be considered a normal flux inthe academic community and retirements. At the same time, however,SFI and its partners went through an extremely ambitious recruitingcampaign which has led to the hiring of five new professors for the2009/2010 academic year.As of June 2009, the core SFI faculty boasts six professors holding seniorchairs, five fellows and five junior chairs. The overall SFI research teamincludes thirty-four additional professors with permanent or temporaryUniversity contracts, all active in research under the name of, andeligible for support from, the Swiss Finance Institute.Center HighlightsThe SFI Regional Centers counted a number of successfulevents during 2008 and the beginning of 2009. At theSFI Léman Center Amit Goyal was hired as an SFI SeniorChair at the University of Lausanne and this fall EPFLwill welcome 6 new professors in the area of finance.At the SFI Lugano Center, Fabio Trojani was hired and received an SFI Fellowship.At the SFI Zurich Center, Felix Kübler joined as an SFI Senior Chair in 2008and has assumed the role of the Zurich Center Head, representing the Universityof Zurich and ETHZ in the SFI College of Center Heads.Swiss Finance Institute Faculty(June 2009)Philippe BacchettaGiovanni Barone-Adesi **Tony BerradaPeter Bossaerts *Marc ChesneyFulvio CorsiJean-Pierre DanthineEnrico De GiorgiFrançois Degeorge ***Pierre-André DumontPaul Embrechts *Rüdiger Fahlenbrach **** (July 2009)Giovanni FavaraFrancesco Franzoni ****Patrick Gagliardini ****Fausto GalliRajna Gibson Brandon **Manfred GilliAmit Goyal *Michel Habib*Thorsten Hens ***Martin HoesliJulien Hugonnier ****Jean ImbsEric JondeauFelix Kübler*Jean LefollHenri LoubergéSemyon MalamudLoriano ManciniErwan Morellec*Eric NowakKjell Nyborg* (August 2009)Claudio OrtelliMarc PaolellaMichael Rockinger ***Olivier Scaillet ***Karl SchmeddersNorman Schürhoff ****Martin Schweizer **Didier SornettePascal St-AmourFabio Trojani ***Anders Trolle **** (August 2009)Paolo VaniniAlexander WagnerMei WangAlexei Zhdanov ****Alexandre Ziegler* Senior Chair** Distinguished Services Senior Chair*** Research Fellow**** Junior Chair5