Augustin Landier

Augustin Landier is professor of finance at HEC. Prior to that, he was professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. He has taught finance at New York University (2004-2009), at the University of Chicago (2002-2004), and was a Resident Scholar at the International Monetary Fund (2009). He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School (2016) and Princeton (2013). He completed his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, and graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 1998. His research is largely focused on behavioral finance, asset management, banking and corporate finance. It has been published in lead scientific Journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics or the Review of Economic Studies. He was awarded the 2014 “best french young economist” award. He is also active in the public policy debate, was a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis (2010-1012 and 2014-2016) and has published several books, among which « Investing for Change » (Oxford Press 2009).

EDUCATION

• 2002 Ph.D. in Economics, MIT, Sloan School of Management - USA
• 1998 DEA, Economy, -, DELTA-EHESS - France
• 1996 DEA de Philosophie des Sciences, Université de Paris I - France
• 1995 Agregation de Mathematiques, Université de Paris VI - France
• 1994 Concours Maths 1994-1998, ENS Paris - France
• 1994 Maitrise de Mathematiques, Université de Paris VI - France

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Academic responsabilities at HEC

• 2017- Professor, Finance HEC Paris
• 2017- Member of GREG HEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

• 2009-2017 Professor, FinanceToulouse School of Economics
• 2013-2013 Invited Visiting professor Princeton University
• 2009-2009 Resident Scholar International Monetary Fund, IMF
• 2008-2009 Adjunct Associate Professor New York University, Stern School of Business
• 2004-2008 Assistant ProfessorNew York University, Stern School of Business
• 2002-2004 Assistant Professor University of Chicago

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

• Member of the French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE)
• Editorial activities
• 2008- Chroniqueur Les Echos
• Referee Reports: American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics

Conference organisation

• 2012-2013 Commissaire Scientifique de l’Exposition sur l’Economie de la Cité des Sciences

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2011 Europlace Best Paper on a Hot Topic Award