External Lectures
Each year the group invites a leading researcher to teach a one-week course in Bern. The course is open mainly to PhD students from Swiss universities. Applications are made on this site and reviewed after the application deadline; applicants are informed by e-mail whether they have been accepted.
1–5 March 2027
Bern
External Lecture 2027
Hanno Lustig’s research is in asset pricing and international finance, including currency risk premia and the valuation of government debt. The course runs over one week and full attendance is required. The exact program follows on this page soon.
Past External Lectures
The external lecture has been held once a year since 2025.
2026
Machine Learning in Asset Pricing
Dacheng Xiu’s research develops econometric and statistical methods for high-dimensional financial data, bringing machine learning to bear on asset pricing, risk-premia estimation and the analysis of high-frequency data.
2025
Advanced Topics in Monetary Economics with Heterogeneous Agents
Ludwig Straub works on macroeconomics and international economics, focusing on heterogeneous-agent models, the transmission of monetary and fiscal policy, and the determinants of the natural rate of interest.