Graduate Programme in Economics and Finance

Graduate Ph.D. Programme in Economics and Finance (GPEF)

The Graduate Programme in Economics and Finance (GPEF) trains students to achieve academic excellence in the areas of Economics, Econometrics and Finance with a particular focus on policy relevant theoretical and empirical research.

GPEF PhD Day

on 5.10.2022 at SQUARE

Here you may find the preliminary programme.

Academic Vacancies

Research Associate / Ph.D. Student in Financial Economics of Insurance (m/w/d)
Prof. Dr. Anastasia Kartasheva

Research and Teaching Assistant
Prof. Michael Lechner

GPEF Public Defenses

"Essays on the Interbank Market"
Jon Findreng (PiF) on 29th of August 2022 at 9:30, room 52-5120 and Zoom

We are currently accepting applications for our Ph.D. programme in Finance PiF (Intake September 2022)!

For more information, please click HERE

Research Assistant & Ph.D. in FINANCE (click here for more information)

● Risk management and insurance, in particular applied to cyber risk (Prof. Martin Eling)

● Financial intermediation with particular interest in Insurance (Prof. Anastasia Kartasheva)

● Private equity, corporate finance, credit risk (Prof. Stefan Morkötter) - based in Singapore at SGI-HSG

● Private equity, empirical corporate finance (Prof. Tereza Tykvova)

GPEF Prize for the best thesis (for each of the three GPEF specializations: Economics, Econometrics and Finance) to be awarded annually on Graduation Ceremony. Here you may find more details.

New prize on topics in Quantitative Finance and Economics for doctoral students of the PEF and PEcon programmes to be awarded annually on Graduation Ceremony. Here you may find more details.

Congratulations to @HSGStGallen job market candidate Fabricius Somogyi (PiF), who was just awarded the 8th Econ Job Market Best Paper Award by @UniCredit_PR Foundation (https://unicreditgroup.eu/en/unicreditfoundation/mediaroom/news/2021/closed-the-8th-econ-job-market-best-paper-award.html?intcid=INT-IG_CTA0018)!

For more information, check out his website: https://sites.google.com/view/fabricius-somogyi

We are currently accepting applications for our Ph.D. programme in Economics and Econometrics PEcon (Intake September 2022)!

For more information, please click HERE

Research Assistant & Ph.D. in ECONOMICS and ECONOMETRICS (click here for more information)

● Public Economics, Welfare Economics, Economic Policy, Distributional Justice (Prof. Paolo Piacquadio)

CONTACT

GPEF
University of St.Gallen
Müller-Friedbergstrasse 6/8, Room 52-5066
CH-9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland
gpef@unisg.ch
Phone: +41 71 224 31 38