Pierre Collin-Dufresne

EPFL CDM SFI SFI-PCD
EXTRA 209 (Extranef UNIL)
Quartier UNIL-Dorigny
1015 Lausanne

Awards

EFA 2024 Best Conference Paper Prize

European Finance Association

2024

Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (American Finance Association)

2016

Inquire Europe award

2016

Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (American Finance Association)

2014

Best Paper Award

International French Finance Association (AFFI)

2013

TCW Best Paper Award

China International Conference in Finance

2013

Publications

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Luca Pagliuca, Federico Baldi Lanfranchi, Caterina Negri, Darius Nik Nejad

Past EPFL PhD Students

Christopher Trevisan, Vincent Bogousslavsky, Sylvain Jean Pascal Carré, Sebastian Vogel, Alexis Marchal, Goutham Gopalakrishna, Philippe van der Beck, Oliver Wilhelm Krek

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Benoit Vincent Sylvain Cornet

Courses

Foundations in financial economics

MGT-301

The aim of this course is to expose EPFL bachelor students to some of the main areas in financial economics. The course will be organized around six themes. Students will obtain both practical insights through real-world examples and understand how one can model the main economic trade-offs.

Information and Asset Pricing

FIN-608

We study the role of information in equilibrium asset pricing models. We cover simple one-period models of incomplete and asymmetric information using competitive rational expectation equilibria and Bayesian-Nash equilibria. We extend to dynamic models.

Investments

FIN-405

The course covers a wide range of topics in investment analysis