The EDHEC-Risk Institute announced that Ekkehart Boehmer, Raman Uppal and Giuseppe Bertola have become members. They will all be core-faculty professors in the EDHEC-Risk Institute PhD in Finance programme.
Ekkehart Boehmer, PhD, was previously Professor of Finance at the University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business. Professor Boehmer is a specialist in equity market micro-structure and the economics of trading. His most recent publications deal with short-selling, the predictability of stock returns, and the role of institutional investors. He has published widely in leading journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Review of Financial Studies. In tandem with his academic career, he has also served as Director of Research at the New York Stock Exchange and Senior Economist at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Ekkehart Boehmer holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Georgia. He is located on the Nice campus.
Raman Uppal, PhD, previously taught at London Business School and at the University of British Colombia. Professor Uppal specialises in portfolio selection, asset pricing, risk management, and exchange rates. He has published widely in leading journals such as Management Science, The Review of Financial Studies and The Journal of Finance. He previously worked at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business and is a former Co-Director of the Financial Economics programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Raman Uppal gained a B.A in Economics from Delhi University, followed by a Masters, an MBA and a PhD from Wharton School of Pennsylvania University in the USA. He is based on the London campus and will teach the “Continuous-Time Financial Economics” course in Europe from 2012.
Giuseppe Bertola, PhD, has held faculty positions with the University of Turin, the European University Institute, and Princeton University. He has advised such international organisations as the European Commission and the European Central Bank. His research focuses on labour and financial market structures and institutions in an international comparative perspective. He has published widely in leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Review of Economic Studies. Guiseppe Bertola holds a PhD from M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He is located on the Nice campus.