Professor of Finance, HEC Paris
Director of the HEC Paris PhD Program
Email: hombert@hec.fr
I co-organize the HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop held every year in December on the HEC Paris campus. The call for the 2025 workshop will be out this summer.
Check out my blog. Short and pedagogical articles connecting ideas from finance classes, academic research, and real-world problems.
Cap and Trade with Imperfect Hedging with Bruno Biais, Daniel Schmidt, and Pierre-Olivier Weill
The Real Effects of Valuation Mistakes: Estimates from Mergers and Acquisitions with François Derrien, Alexei Ovchinnikov, and Philip Valta
Contract Completeness of Company Bylaws and Entrepreneurial Success with Paul Beaumont and Adrien Matray
[Draft coming soon]
Innovation Booms, Easy Financing, and Human Capital Accumulation with Adrien Matray
Revise & Resubmit Journal of Financial Economics
Inter-Cohort Risk Sharing with Long-Term Guarantees: Evidence from German Participating Contracts with Axel Möhlmann and Matthias Weiss
with Victor Lyonnet
Review of Financial Studies, 2022
Private implementation of inter-cohort risk sharing on a large scale: savings products sold by life insurers in France transfer 0.8% of GDP across cohorts of investors every year.
with Bruno Biais and Pierre-Olivier Weill
American Economic Review, 2021
When imperfect asset pledgeability creates endogenous borrowing constraints, asset markets are endogenously segmented, assets trade at a discount relative to replicating portfolios of derivatives, and expected excess returns are concave in beta.
with Antoinette Schoar, David Sraer and David Thesmar
Journal of Finance, 2020
Giving unemployment benefits to entrepreneurs leads to the entry of small firms which eventually grow, and fosters creative destruction.
with Jerome Pouyet and Nicolas Schutz
Journal of Industrial Economics, 2019
Vertical mergers that relax competition.
with Adrien Matray
Journal of Finance, 2018
U.S. manufacturing firms that have invested in R&D are more resilient to trade shocks.
with Henri Fraisse and Mathias Le
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2018
A merger between two large European banks reduces credit supply to SMEs.
with Adrien Matray
Review of Financial Studies, 2017
Hurting lending relationships stiffles innovation and leads to reallocation of inventors across firms and across states.
with Thierry Foucault and Ioanid Rosu
Journal of Finance, 2016
Traders who observe news faster than others have extremely volatile ("high-frequency") strategies.
with Bruno Biais and Pierre-Olivier Weill
Review of Economic Studies, 2014
Asset pricing when traders make decisions under preference uncertainty, because their financial firms face challenges collecting, processing, and disseminating information.
with David Thesmar
Journal of Financial Economics, 2014
Arbitrageurs can choose their capital structure to take advantage of temporary mispricing: theory and evidence.
with Marc Bourreau, Jerome Pouyet and Nicolas Schutz
Journal of Industrial Economics, 2011
Competition between vertically integrated firms can fail.
with Antoinette Schoar, David Sraer and David Thesmar
NBER book Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, 2017
Giving unemployment benefits to entrepreneurs does not deteriorate the success potential of start-ups.
Antoine Hubert de Fraisse (2025) London School of Economics (Finance)
Marina Traversa (2023) Leibniz Institute - SAFE (post-doc)
Chhavi Rastogi (2022) International Finance Corporation, World Bank
Noémie Pinardon-Touati (2022) University of Columbia (Economics)
Huan Tang (2020) London School of Economics (Finance) → Wharton (Finance)