Prof. Dr. Marc Arnold

School of Finance, University of St.Gallen

Tigerbergstrasse 9

CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland

E-mail: marc.arnold@unisg.ch

Phone: +41 (0)71 224 7413

Citizenship: Swiss

Research Fields

Corporate Finance, Trading and Investment, Fixed Income Securities, Credit Risk, Derivatives, Financial Intermediation

Professional Experience

Full Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of St. Gallen, 2024-present

• • Director at the Institute of Accounting, Controlling, and Auditing - University of St.Gallen

  • Chair Corporate Finance

  • Member of the FOKO and the Tenure and Promotion Committee of the University of St.Gallen

  • Executive education: MBA HSG, EMBA HSG, Fit for Finance, Finanzielle Unternehmensführung  

Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of St. Gallen, 2018-2024

• • Director at the Institute of Accounting, Controlling, and Auditing - University of St.Gallen

  • Associate Professor at the School of Finance - University of St.Gallen, HSG

  • Member of the FOKO, Universität St.Gallen

  • Lecturer EPFL

  • Executive education: EMBA HSG, Fit for Finance

Visiting Professor at the New York University, 2017-2018

Assistant Professor of Finance, 2012-2017

• • Department of Banking and Finance - University of St.Gallen, HSG

  • Teaching: Financial Analysis, Selected Topics in Corporate Finance, Corporate Finance, Brown Bag Seminar, Research Seminar, Fit for Finance

  • Theses supervision

 Referee for Journals and Conferences, 2012-present

• • Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science, Annals of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Credit and Capital Markets, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Empirical Finance, Review of Managerial Science, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, DGF, EFA, SGF

Conference and Seminar Speeches, 2010-present

• • SFI Research Seminar (November 2023)

  • MFA Conference, Session Chair, Chicago (March 2023)

  • Law and Finance Seminar, New York University, New York (March 2023)

  • Research Seminar at Universität Paderborn, Paderborn (November 2022)

  • Brown Bag Seminar at University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (October 2022)

  • Financial Markets and  Governance Conference, Virtual (April 2022)

  • CCAF Conference, Cambridge (June 2020)

  • Research Seminar at Universität Paderborn, Paderborn (June 2019)

  • BFWG Conference, Session Chair, London (June 2019)

  • Research Seminar at Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam (Mai 2019)

  • Brown Bag Seminar, University of St.Gallen (Mai 2019)

  • SGF, Zürich, Session Chair (April 2019)

  • Paris December 2018 Finance Meeting, Paris (December 2018)

  • European Finance Association EFA, Warsaw (August 2018)

  • EFMA, Milano (June 2018)

  • Federal Reserve, Washington, USA (November 2017)

  • Corporate Governance Luncheon at New York University, New York, USA (November 2017)

  • FMA Conference, Boston, USA (October 2017)

  • Research Seminar at Boston University, Boston, USA (October 2017)

  • Research Seminar at University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (June 2017)

  • Research Seminar at LSF, Luxembourg (February 2017)

  • Paris December Finance Meeting, Paris, France (December 2016)

  • Topics in Finance Workshop, Davos, Switzerland (December 2016)

  • Conference of the German Finance Association DGF, Bonn, Germany (September 2016)

  • World Finance Conference, New York, USA (July 2016)

  • Financial Intermediation Research Society FIRS Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (May 2016)

  • Research Seminar at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (April 2016)

  • Research Seminar at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (October 2015)

  • International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management, Basel, Switzerland (August 2015)

  • European Finance Association EFA, Vienna, Austria (August 2015)

  • SFI Research Days, Gerzensee, Switzerland (June 2015)

  • Financial Intermediatioon Research Society FIRS Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland (May 2015)

  • SGF Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (April 2015)

  • European Finance Association EFA, Lugano, Switzerland (August 2014)

  • International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management, Rochester, USA (August 2014)

  • SFI Research Days, Gerzensee, Switzerland (June 2014)

  • Research Seminar at the University of Zürich, Switzerland (February 2014)

  • Research Seminar at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (December 2013)

  • Research Seminar at Boston University, USA (October 2013)

  • DGF Conference, Wuppertal, Germany (September 2013)

  • Research Seminar at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (April 2013)

  • CEPR-EBC Conference on Financial Intermediation, Lenzerheide, Switzerland (February 2013)

  • Research Seminar at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (November 2011)

  • Research Seminar at University of Vienna, Austria (September 2011)

  • Research Seminar at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (September 2011)

  • C.R.E.D.I.T Conference Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, Italy (October 2010)

  • 9th Swiss Doctoral Workshop in Finance, Gerzensee, Switzerland (June 2010)

  • Research Seminar at University of Zurich, Switzerland (May 2010)

  • Research Seminar at University of Zurich, Switzerland (April 2010)

Department of Banking and Finance - University of Zurich, 2006-2012

• Research Assistant of Prof. Alexander Wagner, PhD

• Teaching Assistant for PhD Courses in Corporate Finance

• Theses Supervision

CREDIT SUISSE-Zurich, 2003-2005

• • Product Structurer

  • Structured Derivatives Initiation and Consulting

  • Career Start Program

  • Project Implementation for the Department Trading and Sales

Awards

• FT50 Success Fee University of St.Gallen, 2022

• Nominated as finalist for best teaching award at the University of St.Gallen, 2022

• Teaching innovation seed-funding for new corporate finance course at the University of St.Gallen

• FT50 Success Fee University of St.Gallen, 2021

• SNSF Grant, 2020

• Start-up Financing University of St.Gallen, 2019

• FT50 Success FEE University of St.Gallen, 2018