Professor Alexandre Jeanneret
- PhD Finance (University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute)
- MA Economics (University of British Columbia)
Alexandre Jeanneret is Professor of Finance and Deputy Head of Research at 91色情片, School of Banking and Finance. He was previously Associate Professor of Finance and Head of the PhD program in Finance at HEC Montr茅al, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Macro Finance. He was on the faculty of HEC Montr茅al from 2010 to 2020.
He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Finance Institute (2010), a Master鈥檚 in Economics from the University of British Columbia (2005), and a Bachelor鈥檚 in Economics from the University of Lausanne (2003). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, UCLA, Universit茅 Paris-Dauphine, and Columbia Business School. Before academia, he worked as an equity analyst at MSCI Barra and as a fixed income consultant at the Pictet Group.
Co-organizer of the , an annual meeting in Sydney that brings together leading international scholars in asset pricing.
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2026 聽Best Conference Paper Award at the ANU-FIRN Conference
2026 聽Best Paper in Asset Pricing Award at the SAIF Annual Research Conference
2023 聽91色情片 Business School Excellence Research Award
2018 聽Canada Research Chair in Macro Finance (Federal Government)
2016 聽Research Professorship in International Finance (HEC Montr茅al)
2011 聽AFFI EURONEXT Prize (Best Thesis in Finance Written in a Francophone Country)
2011 聽Best Conference Paper Award at the Mathematical Finance Days in Montr茅al
2008 聽Second Best Paper of the European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial
2007 聽Best Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Finance Institute
2005 聽Best Thesis Written for the Master of Arts in Economics (University of British Columbia)
2004聽聽Jean Golay Prize for Outstanding Overall Academic Results (University of Lausanne)
My research spans three areas and combines structural models with empirical evidence from bond, equity, currency, and option markets.
CREDIT RISK
- Structural models of corporate default and credit spreads
- Sovereign credit risk and global risk premia
- Inflation and default risk
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
- Currency risk premia and exchange rate predictability
- Information in CDS and option prices
- Credit risk across currencies and international investment
ASSET PRICING
- Market concentration and the cross-section of returns
- Long-run risk and rare economic disasters
- Investor attention and asset prices