Julien Hugonnier

Julien Hugonnier is a Full Professor of Finance at the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) within the College of Management of Technology (CDM) at EPFL. He holds positions in academic governance, including membership in the CDM Academic Evaluation Committee and the EDFI PhD Program Committee. His research focuses on asset pricing theory, financial frictions, general equilibrium models, and decision-making under uncertainty.

He teaches advanced courses such as Dynamic Asset Pricing (continuous-time models), Derivatives (valuation/hedging frameworks), and Foundations in Financial Economics for undergraduates. His research spans topics like decentralized markets, OTC trading mechanisms, health-economics linkages, and market frictions.

Notable contributions include works on heterogeneous beliefs in asset markets, costly short sales in pricing, and the interplay between health valuations and financial decisions. He supervises doctoral students at EPFL and has mentored over a dozen PhD graduates.

His lab, SFI-JH, explores cutting-edge topics in financial economics. Recent work includes analyses of perpetual futures pricing and government debt dynamics, reflecting his focus on bridging theoretical models with real-world financial phenomena.