Daniel SCHMIDT

Associate Professor

Finance

schmidt@hec.fr https://sites.google.com/hec.fr/danielschmidt/home
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Biography

Daniel Schmidt is Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris, where he teaches Financial Economics and Advanced Finance in the "Grande Ecole" programme. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance at INSEAD (France). His research interests concern information dissemination in financial markets, limited attention, market liquidity, short selling, and behavioral finance.

 

Scientific articles

Passive Ownership and Short Selling

Review of Finance, July 2025, vol. 29, n° 4, pp 1137-1188, (in coll. with B. VON BESCHWITZ, P. HONKANEN)

Uncertainty about What's in the Price

Journal of Financial Economics, November 2024, vol. 161, n° 103915, (in coll. with J. PERESS)

Learning from Noise? Price and Liquidity Spillovers around Mutual Fund Fire Sales

Review of Asset Pricing Studies, June 2022, vol. 12, n° 2, pp 593-637, (in coll. with P. Honkanen)

Fundamental Arbitrage under the Microscope: Evidence from Detailed Hedge Fund Transaction Data

Review of Asset Pricing Studies, July 2022, vol. 12, n° 1, pp 199-242, (in coll. with B. von Beschwitz, S. Lunghi)

Noise traders incarnate: Describing a realistic noise trading process

Journal of Financial Markets, June 2021, vol. 54, (in coll. with J. PERESS)

Glued to the TV: Distracted Noise Traders and Stock Market Liquidity

Journal of Finance, April 2020, vol. 75, n° 2, pp 1083-1133, (in coll. with J. PERESS)

Stock Market Rumors and Credibility

Review of Financial Studies, August 2020, vol. 33, n° 8, pp 3804-3853,

Distracted Institutional Investors

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December 2019, vol. 54, n° 6, pp 2453-2491,

Working papers

Cap and Trade with Imperfect Hedging

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2025

Stock Market Rumors and Credibility

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Limits of Arbitrage under the Microscope: Evidence from Detailed Hedge Fund Transaction Data

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Price and Liquidity Spillovers during Fire Sale Episodes

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Scientific articles

Passive Ownership and Short Selling

Review of Finance, July 2025, vol. 29, n° 4, pp 1137-1188, (in coll. with B. VON BESCHWITZ, P. HONKANEN)

Uncertainty about What's in the Price

Journal of Financial Economics, November 2024, vol. 161, n° 103915, (in coll. with J. PERESS)

Fundamental Arbitrage under the Microscope: Evidence from Detailed Hedge Fund Transaction Data

Review of Asset Pricing Studies, July 2022, vol. 12, n° 1, pp 199-242, (in coll. with B. von Beschwitz, S. Lunghi)

Learning from Noise? Price and Liquidity Spillovers around Mutual Fund Fire Sales

Review of Asset Pricing Studies, June 2022, vol. 12, n° 2, pp 593-637, (in coll. with P. Honkanen)

Working papers

Cap and Trade with Imperfect Hedging

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2025

Stock Market Rumors and Credibility

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Limits of Arbitrage under the Microscope: Evidence from Detailed Hedge Fund Transaction Data

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Price and Liquidity Spillovers during Fire Sale Episodes

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Education

  • Ph.D. in Finance, INSEAD - France
  • M.Sc. in Management, INSEAD - France
  • Diplom-Volkswirt (M.Sc. in Economics equivalent)- specializations in econometrics and finance, Universität Münster - Westffälische Wilhelms - Germany

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2024- Department Head, Finance HEC Paris
  • 2020- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris
  • 2019- Associate Professor, Finance HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Member, American Finance Association
  • Member, European Finance Association

Editorial activities

  • Reviewer, Review of Finance, Journal of Economics Behavior Organization