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Philippe d'Astous is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at HEC Montréal. He holds a PhD in Risk Management and Insurance from Georgia State University (2016). His research focuses on Household Finance, Financial Institutions, and Applied Econometrics. He leads the Financial Education Lab at HEC Montréal and is organizing the 6th CEAR-RSI Household Finance Workshop (2025). He teaches courses like Wealth Management and has supervised over 15 graduate students in recent years. In 2021, he received the Prix d'excellence en pédagogie from HEC Montréal. His work examines topics such as financial advice quality, tax policy impacts, pandemic financial behaviors, and entrepreneurship dynamics.
Key research areas include:
- Household financial decision-making under uncertainty
- Effects of tax-preferred savings vehicles
- Impact of financial literacy on retirement planning
- Behavioral responses to mortgage and loan policies
Recent publications span journals like Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Canadian Journal of Economics. He actively collaborates with institutions including the Canadian government and financial regulators on policy-relevant studies.
