Francois Degeorge

François Degeorge is Professor of Finance at the Università della Svizzera italiana. Professor Degeorge is a former Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the Università and a former president of the European Finance Association. He has taught at HEC Paris, where he also served as Associate Dean for Research. He has been a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business, at Université Paris-Dauphine, and at the Saïd Business School. He has received numerous teaching and research awards.

Expertise

Prof. Degeorge's research studies how incentives and information flows affect company valuation and pricing. In a recent project he examined how the technology of information transmission affects investor's response to earnings news. In ongoing research, he is investigating the governance implications of private versus public company ownership and the frictions involved in transitioning between the two forms. Findings indicate that the incentives of financial intermediaries have a much bigger impact on price discovery than commonly believed.

Expertise Fields

• Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
• Behavioral Finance and Neurofinance
• Equities
• Financial Institutions
• Venture Capital and Private Equity
• Corporate Finance and Governance
• Mergers and Acquisitions