Research seminars

EDHEC professors organise dozens of research seminars a year, in conjunction with the departments and certain programmes. These provide an opportunity to present their own work, and also to discover and discuss that of researchers from all over the world, on a wide variety of subjects.

A varied programme

EDHEC Business School's research seminars are intended for all the school's professors and researchers, to enable them to welcome scientists from all over the world and also to present their own work. Held mainly on the Lille, London and Nice campuses - and by videoconference - these seminars provide an opportunity for researchers to exchange views on a wide variety of subjects.

The different sessions are identified by the following elements :

Business Management, at Lille (BM)
Finance, at Nice (FE)
Data Science, Econometrics & Corporate Finance, at Lille (DSECF)
PhD in Finance, at Nice and London (PhFE)
[Co-organisation] CEPR Advanced Forum for Financial Economics (CAFFE)

EDHEC has also launched a new series of monthly online conferences on "The Future of Finance", Find out more here.

Seminars 2023-2024

September 12, 2023

Enrique Schroth (EDHEC Business School) - "How do firms choose between growth and efficiency?"

London campus, PhFE seminar

September 14, 2023

Remco Zwinkels (Free University Amsterdam) - "Risk, return, and sentiment in a virtual asset market"

Nice campus, FE seminar

September 20, 2023

Ludovic Phalippou (University of Oxford) - "Limited Partners versus Unlimited Machines: Selecting Private Equity Funds with Machine Learning Algorithms"

London campus, PhFE seminar

September 21, 2023

Harjoat S. Bhamra (Imperial College London) - "Leverage Dynamics and Learning about Economic Crises"

London campus, PhFE seminar

September 28, 2023

James Choi (Yale School Management) - "Does Pension Automatic Enrollment Increase Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment"

Nice campus, FE seminar

October 10, 2023

Kevin Bryan (University of Toronto) - "A User's Guide to GPT and LLMs for Economics Research"

Anton Korinek (University of Virginia) - "Language Models and Cognitive Automation for Economic Research"

Online, CAFFE seminar

October 18, 2023

Nicolas Bianco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - "Dynamic variable selection in high-dimensional predictive regressions"

Lille campus, DSECF seminar

October 19, 2023

Jamie Coen (Imperial College London) - "Collateral Demand and Liquidity Demand in Wholesale Funding Markets"

Nice campus, FE seminar

November 8, 2023

Aristide Houndetoungan (Cergy Paris Université) - “Inference for Two-Stage Extremum Estimators”

Lille campus, DSECF seminar

November 8, 2023

Florian Berg (MIT Sloan School of Management) - "The Economic Impact of ESG Ratings"

Nice campus, FE seminar

November 14, 2023

Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London) - "The CO2 Question: Technical Progress and the Climate Crisis"

Mathijs van Dijk (Rotterdam School of Management) - "Climate Change and Long-Horizon Portfolio Choice: Combining Insights from Theory and Empirics"

Online, CAFFE seminar

November 16, 2023

Raman Uppal (EDHEC Business School) - "Evaluating the Impact of Portfolio Mandates"

Nice campus, FE seminar

November 22, 2023

Marie Lambert (HEC Liège) - "Agency Costs of Dry Powder in LBO Funds"

Lille campus, DSECF seminar

November 23, 2023

Michela Verardo (London School of Economics) - "Firms’ transition to green: Innovation and lobbying"

Nice campus, FE seminar

November 29, 2023

Leopoldo Catania (Aarhus University) - "A new way to Regime Switching Autoregressions"