Laurent Fresard

Professor of Finance

Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI)

Senior Chair, Swiss Finance Institute (SFI)

Research Fellow, CEPR 

Co-Editor, Review of Finance


Institute of Finance (IFin)

Via Buffi 13

6900 Lugano, Switzerland

laurent.fresard@usi.ch

+41 (058) 666 4491 

Recent Research

Does Alternative Data Improves Financial Forecasting? The Horizon Effect (with O. Dessaint and T. Foucault), Journal of Finance (forthcoming) 

Rapidly Evolving Technologies and Startup Exits (with D. Bowen and G. Hoberg), Management Science (2023) 69, 940-967. (GitHub Repo)

Industry Asset Revaluations around Public and Private Acquisitions (with F. Derrien, V. Slabik and P. Valta), Journal of Financial Economics (2023) 147, 243-269.

Does Firm Investment Respond to Peers' Investment? (with C. Bustamante), Management Science  (2021) 67, 4643-5300. 

Innovation Activities and Integration through Vertical Acquisitions (with G. Hoberg and G. Phillips), Review of Financial Studies (2020) 33, 2937-2976.