Eight new alumni for the EDHEC PhD in Finance programme

In the past twelve months, eight PhD candidates coming from Germany, India, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA, all executive track participants, successfully defended their PhD theses. The diverse research topics of these new EDHEC PhD alumni can be found below and abstracts are available here.  

Essays on Asset Management and Crypto Asset Pricing by Ainsley To

Adviser: Laurent Calvet; External Examiner: Wei Xiong (University of Princeton)

Essays in Climate Finance by Rahul Bhattarcharjee 

Adviser: Gianfranco Gianfrate; External Examiner: Marco Grotteria (London Business School)

Understanding on Technological Origin of the Value Premium Dynamics by Andy Tang

Adviser: Laurent Calvet; External Examiner: Sebastien Betermier (McGill University) 

Disentangling the Low Risk Effect - The Role of Volatility and Correlation in the Low-Risk Anomaly by Lukas Elmiger 

Adviser: Nikolaos Tessaromatis; External Examiner: Harrison Hong (Columbia University)  

Essays on the Transmission of Unemployment and Monetary-Policy Shocks in the EU by Aravind Srinivasan

Adviser: Raman Uppal; External Examiner: Eric Swanson (University of California, Irvine) 

Forecasting long-term US equity returns with a steady-state Bayesian VAR by Edoardo Cilla 

Adviser: Mirco Rubin; External Examiner: Francis X. Diebold (University of Pennsylvania)

Essays on machine learning and the cross-section of stock returns by Maximilian Sauer 

Adviser: Raman Uppal; External Examiner: Paolo Zaffaroni (Imperial College London) 

Analyzing The Dynamics of Financial Communication Language: Measuring Financial Constraints using Embeddings and Measuring Sentiment of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Joseph Poulous 

Adviser: Arnt Verriest (KU Leuven); External Examiner: Edith Leung (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) 

At EDHEC, the dissertation work starts in the first year of the programme with the drafting of a proposal to be submitted at the beginning of the second year and intensifies as course requirements wane. PhD candidates are required to communicate the progress of their dissertation research to faculty and peers at two formal presentations scheduled in the second and third years of the programme. The dissertation should be completed and defended at the end of the third year of the programme. During all phases of the dissertation process, candidates work closely with their advisor.

Dissertation topics are selected for their academic and industry relevance and according to each candidate’s research interests and professional goals. The dissertation should make a significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge and practices in the field and should be of sufficient originality and quality for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals.

As we look ahead, with more than 25 candidates currently working on their PhD dissertations, we’re excited about these recent achievements and our commitment to making a positive impact on the innovation and careers of our alumni in the financial industry

More information on the programme curriculum is available here.