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Swiss Finance Professors on ‘Lex UBS’

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In two Watson articles, Lara Knuchel summarizes the views of Swiss finance professors on the proposed tightening of UBS’s equity requirements, noting that only a small fraction of scholars affiliated with the Swiss Finance Institute responded to her inquiry. The former article also provides background on the Swiss regulatory debate.

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In two Watson articles, Lara Knuchel summarizes the views of Swiss finance professors on the proposed tightening of UBS’s equity requirements, noting that only a small fraction of scholars affiliated with the Swiss Finance Institute responded to her inquiry.

The former article also provides background on the Swiss regulatory debate.

Dirk Niepelt
Dirk Niepelt is Director of the Study Center Gerzensee and Professor at the University of Bern. A research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), CESifo (Munich) research network member and member of the macroeconomic committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, he served on the board of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics and was an invited professor at the University of Lausanne as well as a visiting professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.

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