Rising Scholar Conference in Finance 2025
Second annual event with keynote by Prof. Caroline Flammer (Columbia University), organized by PhD candidates from our Department
This year's Rising Scholar Conference on Finance took place on 10 July 2025. The event was jointly hosted by the Department of Finance in collaboration with the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) and supported by the UZH Department for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI).
This yearly conference aims to bring together PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds to share their work and engage with members of the UZH faculty as well as peers from other universities. The one-day event also seeks to support the next generation of scholars by offering thoughtful feedback, guidance, and opportunities to foster meaningful academic connections.
The conference 2025 concluded with a keynote lecture on “Blended Finance” by Caroline Flammer, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Columbia University.
Event Details
- Date: 10 July 2025
- Time: 09:00 - 17:30
- Location: University of Zurich (UZH), Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich, KOL-E-21
- Registration: closed
- Contact: risingscholar@df.uzh.ch
Program
09:00 - 09:05 |
Welcome |
| Session 1 | |
09:05 - 09:45 |
1. Presentation and Discussion Carbon in the Cloud |
| 09:45 - 10:25 | 2. Presentation and Discussion Big Bad Banks? Shock Propagation When Workers and Firms Share the Same Bank |
| 10:25 - 10:55 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| 10:55 - 11:35 | 3. Presentation and Discussion Do Institutional Investors Trade on Covenant Violations? |
11:35 - 12:30 |
Workshop: Career Development and Publication Workshop for Junior Researchers |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch and Snacks |
| Session 2 | |
13:30 - 14:10 |
4. Presentation and Discussion Managerial Attention to the Financial Market |
14:10 - 14:50 |
5. Presentation and Discussion How Startups Benefit from Pre-IPO Liquidity? |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
15:20 - 16:00 |
6. Presentation and Discussion Index Disruption: The Promise and Pitfalls of Self-Indexed ETFs |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break / Arrival of Public Keynote Guests |
16:30 - 17:30 |
Public Keynote Speech by Prof. Caroline Flammer on "Blended Finance" |
