Thursday 28 February 2008

The Economist mentions SFI Energy and Emission Trading Course


Economist.com refers to our new energy and emission trading course, part of the Geneva Executive Courses in Finance, in its monthly feature about News from the Schools.

"The emergence of markets for carbon-dioxide emissions, signalled by the European Union’s launch of an emissions-trading scheme in 2005, has resulted in a knock-on market for executive-education courses on the anticipated trade. ...Another notable emissions-trading programme is a four-day course at the Swiss Finance Institute"

The Swiss Finance Institute Energy and Emission Trading course was launched in January with a presentation by emissions trading expert Andrei Marcu.

Everybody needs good neighbours


Corriere del Ticino have published a letter by SFI Professor Giovanni Barone-Adesi about recent frictions between Germany and Liechtenstein.

Barone-Adesi comments that Germany's approach to obtaining bank account information from Liechtenstein will do nothing for neighbourly relations between the two countries.