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Erwan Morellec

erwan.morellec@epfl.ch +41 21 693 01 16 https://sites.google.com/view/erwan-morellec

EPFL CDM SFI SFI-EM
EXTRA 210 (Extranef UNIL)
Quartier UNIL-Dorigny
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Fintech, Sustainable Finance, and Banking.
ERWAN MORELLEC is is a Full Professor of Finance at the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) @ EPFL and the holder of a Swiss Finance Institute senior chair. He is the Head of the SFI nation-wide PhD Program and a CEPR Research Fellow.
Erwan is an expert in corporate finance, corporate governance, and sustainable finance and has taught courses on these subjects at EPFL, HEC Lausanne, MIT Sloan, and the University of Rochester. His research has been presented at major academic conferences and seminar series around the world and is published in the leading academic journals in finance such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science. Erwan has received several research and teaching awards. He holds a PhD in Finance summa cum Laude from HEC Paris.

PERSONAL WEBPAGE

Link to my personal webpage

Awards

Leadership Award

U. Rochester

2002

Barclays Global Investors Award

2006

Listed in Who's Who in the World

2012

Dauphine Amundi Research Prize in Asset Management

Université Dauphine Paris

2016

ACA-Award for outstanding academic performance in Accounting, Corporate Finance, Controlling, or Auditing

University of St Gallen

2021

Best conference paper

International Conference of the French Finance Association

2022

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Florian Jean Charles Perusset

Past EPFL PhD Students

Philip Valta, Ngoc Giang Hoang, Stefano Colonnello, Francesca Maria Zucchi, Yalda Sigrist, Damien Olivier Klossner, Suzanne Vissers, Natalia Rostova

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Thomas Antonius Geelen

Courses

Introduction to finance

FIN-401

The course provides provides an introduction to valuation techniques, investment decisions, asset valuation and portfolio choice, financing decisions, derivatives pricing, and sustainable finance.

Principles of finance

MGT-482

The course provides a market-oriented framework for analyzing the major financial decisions made by firms. It provides an introduction to valuation techniques, investment decisions, asset valuation, financing decisions, and sustainable finance.