GOURIER Elise

Elise Gourier graduated with a PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute at the University of Zurich, in 2013. She spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Princeton, and was then appointed as Assistant Professor at Queen Mary University of London. She is also a Research Affiliate at the CEPR. Elise's research interests include theoretical and empirical Asset Pricing, and Financial Econometrics. She is currently working on several projects that aim to better understand returns of publicly listed indices and stocks, and private equity funds. Elise has published in top academic journals in finance, presented at major finance conferences and has been teaching asset pricing and financial economics. She has supervised theses at the Master and PhD levels.

• 2013 : Ph.D. in Finance (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2021 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2018 - 2021 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2015 - 2017 : Assistant Professor in Finance (Queen Mary University of London. School of Economics and Finance, United Kingdom)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2013 - 2015 : Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) (Princeton University, United States of America)

• 2020 : Grant from the Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF) and the Labex Louis Bachelier

• 2019 : 2019 ICPM Research Award for l'article "How Alternative Are Private Markets"
• 2018 : Jack Treynor Prize, sponsored by the Q-Group (The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance), for the paper, "How Alternative are Private Markets?"

• BARDGETT, C., GOURIER, E. and LEIPPOLD, M. (2019). Inferring volatility dynamics and risk-premia from the S&P500 and VIX markets. Journal of Financial Economics, 131(3), pp. 593-618.
• FARKAS, W., GOURIER, E., HUITEMA, R. and NECULA, C. (2017). A two-factor cointegrated commodity price model with an application to spread option pricing. Journal of Banking and Finance, 77(C), pp. 249-268.
• FILIPOVIC, D., GOURIER, E. and MANCINI, L. (2016). Quadratic Variance Swap Models. Journal of Financial Economics, 119(1), pp. 44-68.
• DRIMUS, G., FARKAS, W. and GOURIER, E. (2016). Valuation of options on discretely sampled variance: A general analytic approximation. Journal of Computational Finance, 20(2), pp. 39-66.

• GOURIER, E., PHALIPPOU, L. and WESTERFIELD, M. (2023). Capital Commitment. In: 2023 American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meeting. Nouvelle-Orleans.
• GOURIER, E. and MATHURIN, H. (2022). A Greenwashing Index. In: 16th International Conference Computational and Financial Econometrics 2022. Londres.

• 2021 - Present : Topics in Finance (PHD (MS BAR + PhD) ESSEC Business School France)
• 2020 - Present : Principles of Finance (Master in Data science and Business analytics ESSEC Business School France)
• 2019 - Present : Asset Pricing 2 (PHD (MS BAR + PhD) ESSEC Business School France)
• 2019 - Present : Principles of Finance (Grande Ecole - Master in Management ESSEC Business School France)