Hamid Boustanifar
Associate Professor
Academic Director for the MSc in Corporate Finance & Banking
Main contributions
Review of Financial Studies (2024), International Business Review (2023), European Financial Management (2023), Financial Analysts Journal (2022), Journal of International Business Studies (2022), Journal Finance (2022), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (2018), Review of Finance (2018), Journal of Banking & Finance (2014)
Bio
Hamid Boustanifar is a finance professor at EDHEC Business School. Before joining EDHEC in 2018, he held teaching and research positions at BI Norwegian Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, and Olin Business School at University of Washington in St Louis. Hamid's main research interests are in corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, and business social responsibility. His recent works focus on measuring intangibles and the stock market valuation of these assets. He is also currently working on applying textual analysis to shed light on important issues within finance, accounting and business fields. Articles based on Hamid's research have been published in leading finance, economics and management/strategy journals such as Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, and Academy of Management. His paper on wages and human capital in the finance industry was the finalist for 2018 Pagano-Zechner Best Paper Award, which is given to the best non-investment paper published in the Review of Finance. His paper on personal bankruptcy laws received the Best Published Paper award from the French Finance Association in 2022. Hamid's research has been widely covered in the media and financial press, including The Financial Times, and has been awarded grants from numerous sources including Norwegian Research Council, Center for Corporate Governance Research, and Bankforskningsinstitutet. His papers have been frequently presented at prestigious conferences in the fields of economics, finance, and management. Hamid is a passionate teacher. He currently teaches courses on Advanced Corporate Finance and Natural Language Processing for Finance. He has received numerous teaching awards including the M.Sc. Outstanding Teacher Award in Finance at BI and the Excellent in Teaching Award at EDHEC.
Publications of Hamid Boustanifar
The Brand Premium
Review of Financial Studies, February 2025
Hamid Boustanifar: “Our students will learn company valuation […] and how to set up optimal financing policies for a firm or an acquisition”
EDHEC VOX, November 2023
CEO wealth and cross-border acquisitions by SMEs
International Business Review, October 2023
Zero leverage puzzle: Do labour laws matter?
European Financial Management, Volume 29, May 2023, Pages 1119 - 1159
An alternative to shareholder capitalism? A review of Alex Edmans "Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit"
Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Volume 34, May 2023, Pages 378 - 383
Derniers articles EDHEC Vox
Hamid Boustanifar: “Our students will learn company valuation […] and how to set up optimal financing policies for a firm or an acquisition”
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Hamid Boustanifar , Associate Professor
Satisfied employees also make investors happy
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Hamid Boustanifar , Associate Professor
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Young Dae Kang , Chief Vice Chairman, Bank of Korea Labor Union - PhD in finance, EDHEC Business School
Hungry for risk-taking? How a CEO’s personal risk appetite affects his/her firm’s internationalization efforts
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Hamid Boustanifar , Associate Professor