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Symposium 07

Fribourg Symposium 2008

Friday, 7th November 2008
10:00-10:10   Yi-Cheng Zhang, Fribourg University, Switzerland
Opening
10:10-11:00 Didier Sornette, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
A complex system view on the financial and economic crisis
11:00-11:30 Steivan Defilla, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Switzerland
Currency risks - unbiased estimation using physical purchasing power
11:45-12:15 Damien Challet, ISI Italy and Fribourg University Switzerland
The shape of what lies ahead: recession, depression and recovery
12:15-12:35 Hagen Kleinert, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Hedging Markets with Nongaussian Distributions
14:30-15:00 Wolfgang Breymann, Zurcher Hochschule Winterthur, Switzerland
Scaling behavior of the growth optimal portfolio
15:00-15:20 Paolo Laureti, Algorithmics Inc., Italy
Risk quantification in the Insurance Business
15:20-15:50 David Morton, Swissquote and EPFL, Switzerland
Investors Ways in Stock Markets: Empirical Stylized Facts
15:50-16:10 Matus Medo, Fribourg University, Switzerland
Diversification and limited information in the growth optimal portfolio
16:10-16:40 Miquel Noguer, UBS Switzerland and UNED Spain
Recent market developments from an econophysics perspective