Master Thesis Presentations


The students of the joint program “Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance” have to conclude the program with a colloquium talk of approx. 30 minutes in which they present their Master Thesis. These colloquium talks are open to public.


Date/ Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 10.00 h Place: ETH, room HG G 19.2 Speaker: Title: "" Supervisor:
Name Thesis Title Time Place
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. Erich Walter Farkas)
Co-integration in commodity markets Tue,
22.05.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
KOL-G-220
Victor Fedyashov

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. 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. Muhle-Karbe, Prof. Dr. 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. 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. 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. Vanini, Prof. Dr. Farkas)
Active Management of Delta Portfolio Do,
01.03.2012
18.15 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Thuy-Mai Hoang

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. 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. 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. Chesney)
Anatomy of Arbitrage in Commodity Markets Mi,
22.02.2012
11.00 h
UZH,
KOL-H-320
Ilya Dubovets

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. 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. Chesney)
Open Interest based Measures of Informed trading in Option Markets Wed,
25.01.2012
10.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Marie Delalay

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bichler)
Client targeting by microfinance institutions in China Mo,
21.11.2011
09.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Sebastiano Rossi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vanini)
FX Algorithmic Trading Tu,
15.11.2011
16.30 h
UZH,
KOL-N-1/2
Alessandro Gnoatto

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. 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. Leippold)
Endogenous Markov Switching GARCH model Mo,
19.09.2011
14.00 h
UZH,
SOE-F-7
Simone Bernardi

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leippold)
Dispersion Trade under Simple Moment Component Analysis Mo,
19.09.2011
12.45 h
UZH,
KOL-G-220
Stefania Colangelo

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. 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. 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. Leippold)
Affine Commodity Term Structure Modeling Fr,
26.08.2011
15.00 h
UZH,
PLD-E-04
Jovan Stojkovic

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leippold)
Correlation Processes: Applications to Default Intensity Models Mo,
22.08.2011
17.00 h
UZH,
PLM-103/104
William Vettorato

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Farkas)
Real Rate Swaptions: pricing and calibration Fr,
01.07.2011
17.30 h
ETH,
HG-G-19.1
Kinga Kaczmarek

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. 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. 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. 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. 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

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