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Eric Jondeau is Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne, the founding Director of the Center for Risk Management at Lausanne (CRML), and a co-founder of the Expertise Center in Climate Extremes (ECCE) at the University of Lausanne. Professor Jondeau's papers have been published in leading academic journals in finance and economics.

Expertise

Professor Jondeau tackles the question of the impact of investors on stock prices in a setting where investors are green, active, or passive. Green investors track an index that progressively excludes the stocks of firms with the highest greenhouse gas emissions. Active investors buy a mean-variance efficient portfolio of all stocks. Passive investors hold a value-weighted index of all stocks. Contrary to the literature, he finds a large drop in the stock prices of the high-emitting firms that get excluded by green investors and a moderate increase in the stock prices of greener firms when green investors announce the exclusion strategy. Further results show that, due to the imperfect substitution of stocks among investors, a smaller number of active investors relative to green investors amplifies the price impact of green investments.

Expertise Fields

  • Financial Markets
    • Central Banks and Monetary Policy
    • Financial Crises
    • Financial Forecasting
    • Systemic Risk and Regulation
  • Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
    • Asset Pricing
    • Equities
    • Portfolio Management
    • Real Estate
  • Financial Institutions
    • Banks
    • Institutional Investors and Funds
    • Pension Funds
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Financial Risk and Risk Management
  • Frontier Topics
    • Sustainable Finance

Current Publications:

N°22-66: Building Portfolios of Sovereign Securities with Decreasing Carbon Footprints

Nº 22-46: How Sustainable Is Swiss Real Estate? Evidence from Institutional Property Portfolios

Nº 22-45: Environmental Subsidies to Mitigate Net-Zero Transition Costs

Nº 22-23: Deconstructing ESG Scores: How to Invest with Your own Criteria

Nº 22-11: Measuring and Stress-Testing Market-Implied Bank Capital

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