Institute of Financial Analysis
Presentation
The Institute of Financial Analysis (IAF) is the teaching and research unit of the University of Neuchâtel (bachelor, master, PhD, continuing education) in finance and accounting .
The fields of interest of its members are:
- Asset pricing
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Disclosure regulation
- Financial valuation
- Pension funds and institutional investors
- Portfolio management
- Risk management
- Sustainable finance
Chairs
- Financial Accounting: Prof. Fiechter
- Finance: Prof. Michael Hasler
- Corporate Finance: Prof. Carolina Salva
- Financial Risk Management: Prof. Florian Weigert
Open position
- Starting from March 1st, 2025
- Application deadline: December 15, 2024
Recent publications
- Florian Weigert, Vikas Agarwal and Stefan Ruenzi "Unobserved Performance of Hedge Funds", Journal of Finance, 2024
- Peter Fiechter, Wayne R. Landsman, Kenneth Peasnell and Annelies Renders "Do industry-specific accounting standards matter for capital allocation decisions?", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 77 (2024)
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Florian Weigert, Turan G. Bali, Heiner Beckmayer and Mathis Mörke, "Option Return Predictability with Machine Learning and Big Data", Review of Financial Studies, 2023
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