EDHEC PhD in Finance - Programme Faculty

Outstanding programme faculty

The EDHEC PhD in Finance programme faculty is an exceptional team of international scholars who hold prestigious qualifications, distinctions and appointments. More importantly, faculty members have been making significant contributions to the field of financial economics, furthering theory and impacting practices through research, consulting, and executive education.

Programme faculty consists of world-class specialists in finance, asset management, and economic and financial modelling. It brings together EDHEC Business School’s senior economics and finance scholars and affiliate professors from top research institutions around the world.

Faculty has an outstanding track record of publications in and editing for the most respected journals in financial economics, a rich experience of research supervision and executive education, and a history of senior-level engagements with private and public sector organisations.

EDHEC PhD in Finance programme faculty

Core Faculty

• Hamid Boustanifar, PhD (Stockholm School of Economics), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Laurent Calvet, PhD (Yale), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, CEPR
• Christophe Croux, PhD (Antwerp), Professor of Data Science, EDHEC Business School 
• Teodor Dyakov, PhD (Rotterdam), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School 
• Gianfranco Gianfrate, PhD (Bocconi University), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Abraham Lioui, PhD (Paris I), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Lionel Martellini, PhD (Berkeley), Professor of Finance, Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute, EDHEC Business School
• Irene Monasterolo, PhD (Bologna), Professor of Climate Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Gianpaolo Parise, PhD (Swiss Finance Institute and Università della Svizzera Italiana/Lugano), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, CEPR
• Kim Peijnenburg, PhD (Tilburg), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, CEPR
• Florian Pelgrin, PhD (Paris I), Professor of Economics, EDHEC Business School, CEPR
• Riccardo Rebonato, PhD (Stony Brook), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Mirco Rubin, PhD (Swiss Finance Institute and Università della Svizzera Italiana/Lugano), Professor of Econometrics, EDHEC Business School
• Enrique Schroth, PhD (NY), Professor of Finance, Academic Director, PhD in Finance programme, EDHEC Business School, CEPR
• Nikolaos Tessaromatis, PhD (Manchester Business School), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
• Raman Uppal, PhD (UPenn), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, CEPR

Affiliate Faculty

• Vikas Agarwal, PhD (LBS), Professor of Finance, Georgia State University
• Yacine Aït-Sahalia, PhD (MIT), Professor of Finance and Economics, Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University
• Torben Andersen, PhD (Yale), Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
• Turan G. Bali, PhD (City University of New York), Robert Parker Chair Professor of Finance, Georgetown University
• Federico Bandi, PhD (Yale), Professor of Economics and Finance, Johns Hopkins University
• Ravi Bansal, PhD (Carnegie Mellon), Professor of Finance, Duke University
• Harjoat Bhamra, PhD (London Business School), Associate Professor of Finance, Imperial College Business School
• Tim Bollerslev, PhD (San Diego), Professor of Economics, Professor of Finance, Duke University
• Michael Brandt, PhD (Chicago), Professor of Finance, Duke University
• Mikhail Chernov, PhD (Penn State), Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
• Rama Cont, PhD (Paris XI), Professor of Mathematics, Chair of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London
• Jakša Cvitanić, PhD (Columbia), Professor of Mathematical Finance, California Institute of Technology
• Sanjiv Das, PhD (NYU), Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University
• Jérôme Detemple, PhD (UPenn & Strasbourg I), Professor and Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Boston University
• Francis Diebold, PhD (UPenn), Professor of Economics, Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania
• Jianqing Fan, PhD (Berkeley), Professor of Statistics and Finance, Princeton University
• Harrison Hong, PhD (MIT), Professor of Economics, Columbia University
• António S. Mello, PhD (London), Professor of Finance, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ludovic Phalippou, PhD (INSEAD), Associate Professor of Financial Economics, University of Oxford
• Nicholas Polson, PhD (Nottingham), Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
• Marcel Rindisbacher, PhD (Montreal), Associate Professor of Finance, Boston University Questrom School of Business 
• Allan Timmermann, PhD (Cambridge), Professor of Finance and Economics, University of California, San Diego
• Pietro Veronesi, PhD (Harvard), Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
• Paolo Zaffaroni, PhD (London School of Ecnomics), Professor of Financial Econometrics, Imperial College Business School  
• Fernando Zapatero, PhD (Columbia), Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California

A selection of international journals currently edited by programme faculty (2020)

• American Economic Review 
• Econometrics and Statistics 
• Journal of Banking and Finance
• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
• Journal of Financial Econometrics
• Journal of Financial Economics 
• Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
• Journal of Portfolio Management
• Journal of Retirement 
• Quantitative Analysis
• Review of Financial Studies
• The Econometrics Journal 

Recent publications by programme faculty

Over the 2018-2020 period, programme faculty members have published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals. The bulk of these have appeared in the most competitive and influential mainstream journals, but some articles have also been published by more specialised and practitioner-oriented scientific publications as well as by up-and-coming journals.

A selection of leading academic journals in which programme faculty has published over 2018-2020

• American Economic Review (8)
• Econometrica (6) 
• Harvard Business Review
• Journal of Econometrics (23)
• Journal of Finance (5)
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (4)
• Journal of Financial Economics (22)
• Management Science (2)
• Review of Economic Studies (2)
• Review of Finance (3)
• Review of Financial Studies (14)