Welcome

I joined the Australian School of Busi­ness in Sep­tem­ber 2010 as an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in Finance (Senior Lec­turer in the Australian sys­tem). I have also been appointed a Vis­it­ing Asso­ciate in Eco­nom­ics at the California Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy from this date.

I study how peo­ple per­ceive and react to uncer­tainty, specif­i­cally with respect to finan­cial risks. My ongo­ing research exam­ines how investors assess unsta­ble return dis­tri­b­u­tions, as well as how they adapt their behav­ior in these rapidly chang­ing conditions.I also study the neu­ro­bi­o­log­i­cal bases of this behav­ior. My neu­ro­fi­nance research builds on recent results and meth­ods from exper­i­men­tal eco­nom­ics, behav­ioral eco­nom­ics, machine learn­ing, and cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science.

I am cur­rently col­lab­o­rat­ing with researchers in Eco­nom­ics, Finance, and Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science. I am teach­ing the Behav­ioral Finance course at the ASB from March 2011.

I obtained my PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Insti­tute (SFI). Prior to study­ing Finance at the SFI, I com­pleted the first part of my PhD at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics, and stud­ied Eco­nom­ics at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity and the Paris School of Eco­nom­ics. I also grad­u­ated from the ENSAE, Paris, and the Ecole Nor­male Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, Paris.

Please see my CV for more infor­ma­tion.

Research Areas

Pri­mary : Neu­ro­fi­nance, Behav­ioral Eco­nom­ics, Behav­ioral Finance, Exper­i­men­tal Eco­nom­ics
Also: Finan­cial Eco­nom­ics.