PiF students have to complete six core electives.
The course offering at the School of Finance is continuously updated. Currently, the following core electives are offered each year. In addition, the School of Finance regularly invites renowned guest professors who teach core elective courses in the PiF programme.
Course |
Lecturer
|
Semester
|
Empirical Corporate Finance
|
Prof. Markus Schmid
|
Fall |
Econometrics for Finance
|
Prof. Paul Söderlind
|
Fall |
Market Microstrucutre
|
Prof. Angelo Ranaldo
|
Fall
|
Topics in Asset Management
|
Prof. Manuel Ammann / Prof. Markus Schmid
|
Fall
|
Quantitative Behavioural Finance
|
Prof. Enrico De Giorgi
|
Spring
|
Spatial Econometrics
|
Prof. Roland Füss / Dr. Zeno Adams |
Spring
|
Topics in Financial Intermediation |
Prof. Martin Brown
|
Spring |
Topics in Insurance Economics
|
Prof. Hato Schmeiser
|
Spring |
Students can credit up to four courses taken outside the PiF programme as core elective courses. Courses that can be credited may be courses from other Ph.D. programmes at the University of St. Gallen or courses taken elsewhere, for example from
- PEF (Ph.D. Programme in Economics and Finance) of the University of St.Gallen
- GSERM (Global Summer School in Empirical Research Methods) of the University of St.Gallen (advanced and research courses)
- SFI (Swiss Finance Institute)
- Gerzensee Study Programme
- other research universitites and doctoral summer schools.
Courses from the University of St. Gallen that can be credited include the following, among many others:
Course |
Lecturer
|
Causal Inference
|
Prof. Michael Lechner
|
Time Series Methods in Financial Econometrics
|
Prof. Patrick Gagliardini
|
Computational Statistics
|
Prof. Francesco Audrino
|
Econometrics of Big Data
|
Prof. Christian Hansen, / Prof. Martin Spindler
|
Quantitative Behavioural Finance with Applications
|
Prof. Enrico De Giorgi
|
Resampling Methods and Forecasting
|
Prof. Lorenzo Camponovo
|
Statistical Learning and Applications
|
Prof. Christine de Mol |