ERC Summer School and PhD Workshop
Participate
The event is held in honor of Denis Gromb, Professor of Finance at HEC, who passed away in 2022, and his invaluable contribution to the school, the scientific community, and the advancement of knowledge. Denis Gromb provided amazing help and advice to many PhD students, and organized at HEC an annual PhD workshop in which PhD students could present their early-stage research projects to their peers and faculty.
Contact:
Matthias Efing (HEC faculty): efing@hec.fr; +33 6 95 64 67 55
Alyssa Rusonik (HEC PhD student): alyssa.rusonik@hec.edu; +33 7 60 85 12 97
Xinyu Lu (HEC PhD student): xinyu.lu@hec.edu; +33 6 11 82 71 63
Juliette POULIN (administration): facultyevents@hec.fr; +33 1 39 67 71 84
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No 882375).
Wednesday, August 27
(HEC Paris campus, Z building, room Z11)
Faculty Lectures on Global Warming, Welfare, Incentives and Dynamic Equilibrium
14:30-15:00: Registration & Welcome coffee
15:00-16:15: Summer School Lecture 1: Augustin Landier, "Emission caps and investment in green technologies"
16:15-16:45: Coffee break
16:45-18:00: Summer School Lecture 2: Johan Hombert, "Cap and trade with imperfect hedging"
19:00-21:00: Dinner at Best Western Hotel Restaurant
Thursday, August 28
(HEC Paris campus, Z building, room Z14)
PhD Presentations
9:45-10:00: Registration and quick welcome
10:00-11:15: Session 1 (chair: Johan Hombert)
Teodor Duevski (HEC Paris), “Human Capital Breadth, Portfolio Choice and Performance in Venture Capital”
Géraud Desazars de Montgailhard (Bocconi), “Growing through Capital”
Xuelai Li (Imperial), “Venture Capital and Scientists' Selection into Entrepreneurship”
11:15-11:45: Coffee break
11:45-12:35: Session 2 (chair: Guillaume Vuillemey)
Yang Guo (LSE), “Form Preference to Influence: The Economics of Activists Investing”
Minrui Gong (Mannheim), “Judge by the Company: How the Market Revalues Acquirers”
12:35-14:00: Lunch at Best Western (HEC Campus)
14:00-14:50: Session 3 (chair: Jessica Jeffers)
Enrico Stivella (Bocconi), Loans and human capital: Manager mobility in the financial sector and credit allocation
Sophie-Dorothee Rotermund (Frankfurt), Capital Commitments and Private Debt Lending
14:50-15:20: Coffee break
15:20-16:10: Session 4 (chair: Matthias Efing)
Tong Zhao (KUL), “Collateral and Bank Monitoring”
Alex Osberghaus (SFI Zurich), “Synthetic, but How Much Risk Transfer?”
16:10-16:40: Coffee break
16:40-17:30: Session 5 (chair: Alexei Ovtchinnikov)
Ye Lyren Lu (Imperial), “Save more or less? The impact of government health insurance change on saving
behavior”
Purnoor Tak (LBS), “Women, Property Rights, and Banking”
19:00-21:30: Cocktail & Dinner at Best Western
Friday, August 29
(HEC Paris campus, Z building, room Z14)
PhD Presentations
10:00-11:15: Session 1 (chair: Irina Zviadadze)
Jonas Camargos Jensen (Frankfurt), “Volume-based Surprises”
Mohamed Hamoud (SFI Zurich), “The Impact of Monetary Policy Surprises on the Term Structure of Equity
Premia”
Lorenzo Ranaldi (Bonn), “The Credit Channel of Inflation”
11:15-11:45: Coffee break
11:45-12:35: Session 2 (chair: Ioanid Rosu)
Yuhan Ye (SFI Lugano), “Beyond Algorithms: Soft Information in Global Macro Shocks”
Busra Eroglu (Mannheim), “Time-Varying Salience Effect”
12:35-14:00: Lunch at Best Western (HEC Campus)
14:00-14:50: Session 3 (chair: Jean‐Edouard Colliard)
Xinchen Ma (LSE), “Open Banking and Fintech Innovation Adoption: Evidence from Mobile Apps”
Marco Zanotti (SFI Lugano), “Asset (and Data) Managers”
14:50-15:20: Coffee break
15:20-16:10: Session 4 (chair: Thierry Foucault)
Marius Savatier (Dauphine), “Lost In Transmission”
Zijun Wang (HEC Paris), tbd
16:10-16:30: Coffee break and goodbyes
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No 882375).
