Fédération Bancaire Française - Université Paris Dauphine...

Corporate Finance

Chaire Recherche

Titulaire : Ulrich Hege, Professeur Associé en Finance à HEC

The Corporate Finance Chair, jointly held by Université Paris-Dauphine and HEC-Paris, is one of the five academic chairs funded by the Fédération Bancaire Française (FBF). The Corporate Finance Chair was established in January 2008

The purpose of the Corporate Finance Chair is to foster innovation in the investment banking industry in order to increase the competitiveness of the Place financière de Paris. The Corporate Finance Chair has to advance the scholarship, teaching, and practice of investment banking. To this aim, the Chair facilitates interactions between the academic partners and the members of the FBF.

The Chair's objective is to realize top-level fundamental and applied research in corporate finance with a special focus on topics related to investment banking. More specifically, the following issues are studied:

• Mergers and acquisitions and related corporate transactions, incl. Private Equity
• Primary markets and security issuance
• Corporate Governance.

The Scientific Directors of the FBF Chair are Edith Ginglinger (Université Paris-Dauphine) and Ulrich Hege (HEC)