In parallel to my activity of a finance practitioner, I do research as part of a Ph.D. in Economics (« Essays on empirical asset pricing ») at LEMMA* (Université Paris Panthéon-Assas).
My interests are : macro-finance, european macro-economics , sovereign finance, applied econometrics, bond market, rating agencies, banks, climate risk.
Working papers :
> Does the euro matter for sovereign bond markets? X. Goénaga
This paper will be presented at the 27th Conference on International Economics (annual conference of the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (AEEFI); co-organised by the University of Castilla-la-Mancha (Spain)). In Ciudad Real (Spain), in May, 2026.
> Do the rating agencies care about EMU? X. Goénaga (in progress)
> How do financial markets price climate physical risks? X. Goénaga and E. Darriet (in progress)
This paper has been presented at the 41st International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance (annual meeting of the European Research Group (GdRE), in Nice (France), in June, 2025.
> Banks and climate risks. M. Gazel, X. Goénaga and E. Darriet (in progress)
Awards :
> In 2023, I had the pleasure to participate and win the contest "My thesis in 3 minutes" of the EGIC (doctoral school, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas) (https://ed455-egic.u-paris2.fr/fr/vie-doctorale/ma-these-en-3-minutes)
*LEMMA (Laboratoire d'Economie Mathématique et de Microéconomie Appliquée) makes part of LabEx MME-DII : http://lemma.u-paris2.fr/fr/node/126