Thierry Foucault, HEC Paris Professor Appointed Associate Editor of Journal of Economic Theory

Thierry Foucault, Professor of Finance at HEC Paris, has been appointed Associate Editor of the specialized scientific journal, Journal of Economic Theory.

Research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR), Thierry Foucault is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and The Review of Financial Studies. He also acted as co-editor of the Review of Finance from 2009 to 2013 and served as Associate Editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies from 2011 to 2015. He co-authored, with Marco Pagano and Ailsa Röell, “Market  Liquidity: Theory, Evidence, and Policy ”, a textbook on market liquidity published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

His research focuses on the determinants of financial markets liquidity, the industrial organization of these markets, and their effect on the real economy. It is published in top-tier academic journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science or the Rand Journal of Economics . He has received research awards from the Europlace Institute of Finance, the HEC Foundation, and the Analysis Group award for the best paper on Financial Markets and Institutions presented at the 2009 Western Finance Association (WFA) meetings. 

He serves or has served on the scientific committees of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the Research Foundation of the Banque de France, the Group of Economic Advisors of the Committee of Economic and Markets Analysis of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and was a member the executive committee of the European Finance Association (EFA).

The Journal of Economic Theory  publishes original research on economic theory. JET is the leading journal among those specializing in economic theory. It is also one of nine core journals in all of economics.