Economics & Finance

Gilles Chemla

Professor of Finance, Imperial College Business School

Gilles Chemla is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School and Co-director of Imperial's Centre for Financial Technology.

He is also a research fellow at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a research fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a senior research fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA).

He is a member of the American Finance Association, American Economic Association, Western Finance Association, and European Finance Association.

He currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Empirical Finance. Prior to joining Imperial, Professor Chemla was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of British Columbia.

He has also worked in corporate finance at BNP Paribas & as an independent consultant for a variety of corporate, financial, and governmental institutions and professional and international organisations. He has served on a wide range of boards. Professor Chemla's research interests include crowdfunding, prediction markets, C-suite decision-making, mergers and acquisitions, stablecoins, private equity, and venture capital.

C-Suite Decision-Making: Chemla, G., and C. Hennessy, 2022, "Signaling, Instrumentation, and CFO Decision-Making", Journal of Financial Economics, 144, 3, 849-863.

Stablecoins:

Chemla, G., W. Knottenbelt, Z. Li, X. Xiong, A. Delgado, A.-L. Burnett, "Mind the Gap: How Stablecoins can Secure the UK's Financial Future", https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5486386.

Mergers & Acquisitions: Chemla G., 2005, “Hold-Up, Stakeholders, and Takeover Threats”, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 14(3), 376-97.

Education

PhD Economics, London School of Economics · MSc Economics, Paris School of Economics · BA Economics, University of Vienna

Topics

Finance · Digital Assets · Platform Finance · Data Science and Causal Inference · Entrepreneurial Finance · Private Equity and Venture Capital · Corporate Finance · Corporate Governance · Mergers and Acquisitions · Corporate Risk Management · Energy Markets · Security Design and Securitization · Debt Markets · Asset Allocation · Pension Funds · Financial Regulation and Policymaking.