SFI Faculty members & researchers

Research areas & expertise

Research carried out by the faculty of the Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL covers all aspects of modern finance including asset pricing, corporate finance, corporate governance, macro-finance, mathematical finance, and banking. The impact of their research is reflected in the large number of publications in leading economics and finance journals (such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, or the Review of Financial Studies) and leading mathematical finance journals (such as Mathematical Finance, Finance and Stochastics, and Annals of Applied Probability) and awards received by our faculty.

Faculty members

Pierre Collin-Dufresne

Professor of Finance

Expertise:

  • Credit & liquidity risk
  • Optimal asset allocation
  • Pricing & hedging

Ruediger Fahlenbrach

Professor of Finance

Expertise:

  • Corporate finance & governance
  • Venture capital
  • Causes & consequences of financial crises

Damir Filipovic

Professor of Finance

Expertise:

  • Quantitative finance
  • Machine learning in finance
  • Quantitative risk management

Andreas Fuster

Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise:

  • Household & real estate finance
  • Financial intermediation
  • FinTech
  • Macroeconomics

Jullien Hugonnier

Professor of Finance

Expertise:

  • Asset pricing theory
  • Dynamic corporate finance
  • Decision making under uncertainty

Luisa Lambertini

Professor of Economics

Expertise :

  • Macroeconomics
  • International finance
  • Monetary & fiscal policy

Semyon Malamud

Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise :

  • Portfolio selection
  • Non-linear filtering
  • Liquidity and asset prices
  • Machine learning in Finance

Erwan Morellec

Professor of Finance

Expertise :

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate governance
  • Sustainable finance
  • Economics of innovation

Researchers

Elena Perazzi

Senior scientist in finance

Teaching:

  • Financial engineering

Urban Ulrych

Postdoctoral Researcher

Teaching:

  • Financial engineering
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Program