Geneva Finance Research Institute

Olivier Scaillet, GFRI's Director, Professor of Finance and Statistics at the University of Geneva and Senior Chair at the SFI Swiss Finance Institute, was Nominated Co-Chair of the 2026 Asia Meeting of The Econometric Society.

The 2026 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, East & Southeast Asia, will take place from 31 July to 2 August 2026 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
It is hosted by Thuongmai University, AVSE Global, and EMLV - École de Management Léonard de Vinci (Paris La Défense).

For more information: https://www.unige.ch/gfri/news/olivier-scaillet-nominated-co-chair-2026-asia-meeting-econometric-society

Join us for a special online information session to discover the Executive Master in Finance (GEMFIN)!
Applications are now open for the September 2025 intake.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025
🕗 Time: 20:00 CEST
📧 To receive the Zoom link, please contact us at: [email protected]
🔗 Learn more about the program: https://lnkd.in/eV-uM8Ad

We look forward to meeting you!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ines Chaieb won the S&P Global Academic ESG Research Award for her paper "Nature Risk Management in Domestic and Foreign Institutional Investments “.

The paper is co-authored with Vihang Errunza from McGill University and Lucie Lu from the University of Melbourne, and is published in The Journal of Impact & ESG Investing (JESG).

Congratulations, Ines, from all of us!

To read more:
https://www.unige.ch/gfri/news/ines-chaiebs-paper-wins-sp-global-academic-esg-research-award

Navigating Information Imperfections in Commercial Real Estate Pricing

This week, Martin Hoesli, GFRI's Professor of Real Estate and Finance, was the keynote speaker at the ESPI International Real Estate Conference (ESPI-IREC) in Paris.

The ESPI-IREC is a bi-annual event run by ESPI2R. To read more: https://espirealestate2024.sciencesconf.org/program/graphic/date/2024-11-26

Application for our PhD in Finance program is now open!

We offer annually up to three fully funded doctoral positions in a five-year PhD program for excellent students with research aspirations.
Our program is integrated into the PhD program of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), one of the largest and most competitive programs in the world.

Applications should be received before January 15th, 2025 and are processed through the platform:
https://www.sfi.ch/en/phd/apply-now-2022
Please select the University of Geneva as the sponsoring institution.

For more information: https://academicpositions.com/ad/university-of-geneva/2024/doctoral-program-in-finance/225319

We are pleased to announce that Olivier Scaillet, GFRI's Director and Professor of Finance and Statistics, will be giving a keynote speech at the Finance and Business Analytics Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 11th-13th June 2025.

The conference is co-hosted by the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and Bayes Business School of City St George’s, University of London.

https://fba-conference.com/

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Olivier Scaillet, GFRI's Director and Professor of Finance and Statistics, and senior chair at the SFI Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) as International Chair hosted by the Foundation for Economic Modeling- Labex MME-DII 2025 at ESSEC Business School.

To read more:
https://www.unige.ch/gfri/news/olivier-scaillet-appointed-international-chair-hosted-fondation-pour-la-modelisation-en-economie-labex-mme-dii-2025-essec-busine

We are hiring!
Postdoctoral position for the Impact Performance Measurement project
Activity rate: 100%
Application deadline: 10.11.2024

The impact performance measurement project is a research initiative of the Geneva Finance Research Institute - University of Geneva (GFRI), in collaboration with staff from the IFC - International Finance Corporation (IFC). The academic and scientific stewardship of the project will be led by Professor Rajna Gibson Brandon, Dr. Camilo Mondragón-Vélez, and Dr. Melita Leousi.

For more information and to apply:
https://erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch/professeurs/?page=advertisement_display&id=573&lng=en

Hedonic Models and Market Segmentation

In a new study, GFRI's Professor Martin Hoesli explores the pricing of heterogeneous goods in the presence of market segmentation.

The paper is co-authored with Steven Bourassa from the University of Washington and Martijn Dröes from the University of Amsterdam, and has been accepted for publication in the Netherlands Economic Review:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3916232

Here, at GFRI, we are committed to sharing our world-leading research with wider audiences in creative and engaging ways.

As part of the Rotman Finance Analytics and Decision-Making League (RFADML), GFRI's Director and Professor of Finance and Statistics, Olivier Scaillet, will present his research on Sparse Spanning Portfolios and Under-diversification with Second-order Stochastic Dominance.

For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/grMY-WxG
For the paper: https://lnkd.in/eEUMiBBu

We are proud to share that GFRI's Professor Martin Hoesli and our PhD students Louis Johner and Jacqueline Krayushkina, were awarded the American Real Estate Society 2024 Manuscript Prize for Real Estate Portfolio Management for their paper “The Volatility of Listed Real Estate in Europe and Portfolio Implications”.

https://www.unige.ch/gfri/news/martin-hoesli-and-louis-johner-awarded-american-real-estate-society-2024-manuscript-prize-real-estate-portfolio-management

We are pleased to announce the reappointment of GFRI’s Director and Professor of Finance and Statistics Olivier Scaillet, as Associate Editor of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics.

https://www.unige.ch/gfri/news/olivier-scaillet-re-appointed-associate-editor-journal-business-economic-statistics