Research areas
Social finance, cooperative studies, social economy, commons
Banking, corporate finance
Governance, ownership structure, theory of organisations
Behavioural economics
Research awards
9th EMES Conference Best Paper (2023)
Warren Samuels Prize (2016)
EACB award for young researcher on co-operative banks (2014)
ADDES prize for the best PhD thesis in "social economy" (2012)
FIR-EUROSIF grant for the best doctoral project in "finance and sustainable development" (2009)
Articles in academic journals and edited books in English:
Cornée, S., Rousselière, D., Thelen, V. (2025). The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture. Ecological Economics, 230, 108513.
Diakité, D., Tamini, L., Cornée, S., Caillault, S., Rousselière, D. (2025). Factors affecting investments in environmental assets by machinery cooperatives (CUMAs): Evidence from France. Agricultural Economics, 56(2): 228-246.
Cornée, S., Cozarenco, A., Szafarz (2023). The changing role of banks in the financial system: Social versus conventional banks. In Sustainable Finance and ESG: Risk, Management, Regulations, and Implications for Financial Institutions, The Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, pp. 1-25.
Cornée, S., Masclet, D. (2022). Long-Term relationships, group lending, and peer monitoring in microfinance: New experimental evidence. Journal of Behavorial and Experimental Economics, 100, 101921.
Cornée, S., Jegers, M., Szafarz, A. (2022). Feasible institutions of social finance: A taxonomy. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 178 (3), 280-310.
Cornée, S., Le Guernic, M., Rousselière, D. (2020). Governing common-property assets: Theory and evidence from agriculture. Journal of Business Ethics, 166 (4), 691-710.
Cornée, S., Kalmi, P., Szafarz, A. (2020). The business model of social banks. Kyklos, 73 (2), 196-226.
Cornée, S. (2019). The relevance of soft information for predicting small Business credit default: Evidence from a social bank. Journal of Small Business Management, 57 (3), 699–719.
Cornée, S., Kalmi, P., Szafarz, A. (2018). How costly is social Screening? Evidence from the banking industry. Economics Bulletin, 38 (1), 532-540.
Cornée, S., Fattobene, L., Migliorelli, M. (2018). An overview of cooperative banking in Europe. In Migliorelli M. (Ed.), New Cooperative Banking in Europe. Strategies for Adapting the Business Model Post Crisis, Springer, 1-27.
Cornée, S., Kalmi, P., Szafarz, A. (2016). Selectivity and transparency in social banking: Evidence from Europe. Journal of Economic Issues, 50 (2), 494-502.
Cornée, S., Szafarz (2014). Vive la différence: Social banks and reciprocity in the credit Market. Journal of Business Ethics, 125 (3), 361-380.
Cornée, S. (2014). Soft information and default prediction in cooperative and social banking. Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 3 (1), 89-109.
Cornée, S., Masclet, D., Thenet, G. (2012). Long-term credit relationships: Experiments with real bankers. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 44 (5), 957-980.
Articles et chapitres d'ouvrage en français:
Cornée, S., Thelen, V. (2025). Epargner (pour) la terre: la reconstitution de communs fonciers en Bretagne. In Bidet E. & Richez-Battesti N. (Ed.), Tensions aux frontières de l'ESS, à paraître.
Bouillé, J., Cornée, S. (2017). La gouvernance des organisations de l'économie sociale et solidaire à l'épreuve dynamique de leurs 'grandeurs. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 88 (4), 567-587.
Artis, A., Cornée, S. (2016). Transformation informationnelle, certification et intermédiation financière: le cas de la banque solidaire. Systèmes d'Information et Management, 21 (3), 93-131.
Cornée, S., Thenet, G. (2016). Efficience des institutions de microfinance en Bolivie et au Pérou: Une approche Data Envelopment Analysis en deux étapes. Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 19 (1).
Ongoing projects (by order of progress):
How institutions shape the effects of cooperatives on their members. w/ M. Le Guernig & D. Rousselière (R&R Kyklos).
Ownership structure over the business cycle. w/ S. Karimi & V. Thelen.
Cooperative and conventional banks in a DSGE model designed for the Euro area. w/ T. Cargoet, F. Martin, T. Razafindrabe, F. Rondeau.
ESG equity funds beyond rhetoric. w/ R. Bofinger & A. Szafarz.
When the multitude finances the commons. Exploring how social finance can recommunalise land. w/ C. Meyer & V. Thelen.
Absenteeism and Ownership structure over the business cycle. w/ S. Karimi & V. Thelen.
Ethical values and credit market. w/ B. Tarroux.
The stolon theory: Coping with the cooperative tragedy.
Investment decisions: Cooperative ownership is the solution not the problem. w/ J.-L. Viviani.
Accounting systems in the 19th US communes. w/ D. Rousselière.
In the media:
Les CUMA, un modèle de communs ? Cahiers du développement coopératif, 6, 83-87, 2022, avec M. Le Guernic & D. Rousselière.
La terre et la finance, un rapport à questionner. Ouest France, 30 avril, 2019.
De l'importance de l'économie sociale. Ouest France, 29 nov, 2017, avec D. Rousselière.
Des banques sociales. La Libre, 11 oct, p. 9, 2014, avec A. Szafarz.
La Banque publique d'investissement. Le bon outil pour aider les PME? Ouest France, 04 dec., 2012.
Referee for:
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, European Management Journal, Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Small Business Management, Klyklos, Small Business Economics, Systèmes d'Information et Management, World Development, etc.