Annual Hedge Fund Research Conference


This academic meeting will take place in Paris on January 21-22, 2027.

We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for this year: Adam Reed, Julian Price Distinguished Professor of Finance and Area Chair of Finance, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina.

Topics include: institutional investors’ risks and performance; transparency (reporting) and due diligence; financial intermediation activity; hedge fund and broad macroeconomic issues such as systemic risk and contagion; institutional investors’ incentives and activism; portfolio liquidation and liquidity; financial regulation; private equity funds; mutual funds; ETFs; etc.

Submission

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2026
Decisions will be communicated by early November 2026

Organizers

  • Serge Darolles, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
  • Tamara Nefedova, ESCP Business School

Scientific Committee

  • Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University
  • David Ardia, HEC Montreal
  • Laurent Barras, University of Luxembourg
  • Charles Cao, Penn State University
  • Serge Darolles, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
  • Xi Dong, Baruch College, City University of New York
  • Ronnie Sadka, Haub Family Professor in Finance, Boston College
  • Zoran Filipovic, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
  • René Garcia, University of Montreal and Toulouse School of Economics
  • Christian Gourieroux, University of Toronto and Toulouse School of Economics
  • Paul Karehnke, ESCP Business School
  • Olga Kolokolova, Lancaster University Management School
  • Hugues Langlois, HEC Paris
  • Marie Lambert, HEC Liège, Management School of the University of Liège
  • Christian Lundblad, UNC Chapel Hill
  • Tamara Nefedova, ESCP Business School
  • Andrew Patton, Duke University
  • Sugata Ray, University of Alabama
  • Adam Reed, UNC Chapel Hill
  • Ronnie Sadka, Boston College
  • Daniel Schmidt, HEC Paris
  • Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin
  • Melvyn Teo, Singapore Management University
  • Cristian Tiu, University at Buffalo
  • Irina Zviadadze, HEC Paris

Conference Venue

Université Paris-Dauphine
Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny  
75775 Paris 16

 

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