Christoph Herpfer

Biography

Christoph Herpfer completed his PhD in finance at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and the Swiss Finance Institute in 2017. Herpfer has previously studied at the London School of Economics and held positions at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Oliver Wyman. Herpfer''s primary research interests include corporate finance, banking, and law and finance.

Areas of Expertise

• Finance
• Economics
• Law and Finance
• Accounting

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
• M.Sc. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2010 — 2011)
• B.Sc. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2008 — 2010)
• B.A. Universität St. Gallen-Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften (2006)

Publications

• How do investors and firms react to an unexpected currency appreciation shock?
  with Matthias Eng, Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and Philipp Krüger
• Conditionally accepted at Review of Corporate Finance Studies
• The causal impact of distance on bank lending
  with Cornelius Schmidt and Aksel Mjøs
  Management Science, 2022
  
• Information intermediaries: how commercial bankers facilitate inter-firm alliances
  with Marc Frattaroli
  
• Best Paper Award, Financial Management Association 2019
  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022
  
• The role of bankers in the U.S. syndicated loan market
  Journal of Accounting and Economics (2021)
  
• Do courts matter for firm value? Evidence from the U.S. court system
  with Stefano Colonnello
  Journal of Law and Economics (2021)