Roxana Mihet
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne (HEC Lausanne) and a Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute and a Research Affiliate of the CEPR. I am also the Founder and Director of the "AI & the Digital Economy" Lab at HEC Lausanne.
My research is at the intersection of macroeconomics, finance, and information economics. I study the modern data economy and how new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data, are impacting the macroeconomy and financial markets. I use a blend of theoretical, structural and empirical techniques to examine these topics. My research has won various prizes, including the ECB Young Economists' Competition, the Cubist Strategies Prize for Outstanding Research at the WFA, and the Sandoz Foundation - Monique de Meuron Program Fellowship.
I completed my Ph.D. in Business Economics at NYU, Stern School of Business in 2020. I also earned an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Chicago. Over the years, I worked in the Research Departments of the IMF, BIS, EBRD and Norges Bank on macro-finance and financial stability issues.
Latest News
04/16/2024 - Excited to return to Norges Bank in Oslo to present my research on AI & the Data Economy.
04/10/2024 - Our cyber-risk paper was among the 8 selected for the WEIS 2024 conference. Program here!
03/26/2024 - Join us for two amazing sessions on "AI & Market Power" and "Cyber-Risk in the Modern Data Economy" at the Applied Machine Learning Days 2024 in Lausanne at the EPFL Tech Center. Among our confirmed speakers are Anastasia Kartasheva (St. Gallen), Julian Jang-Jaccard (CYD-Campus, UNIL), Orlando Gomes (ISCAL), Jean-Marc Rickli (GCSP), Anita Mezzetti (Credit Suisse), Igor Letina (UBern), Greg Crawford (Zalando), and many others! Registration here.
03/13/2024 - Excited to be part of a panel discussion at the KV Business School Zurich on 'Breaking Boundaries: Ethical AI Redefining the Game in Alternative Investments'. The event is organized by the CAIA Institute and CISI. Registration here.
02/29/2024 - Our newest paper entitled "Household Belief Formation in Uncertain Times" is now publicly available on SSRN. Comments welcome!
02/28/2024 - Boston Questrom's TPRI Seminar Series on technology and innovation is fantastic. Join the series here and come hear my presentation on "Cyber Risk-Driven Innovation in the Modern Data Economy" on Wednesday.
02/08/2024 - Very grateful to FINMA for giving us the opportunity to present our research on cybercrime in the data economy in their exclusive seminar series.
01/19/2024 - Looking forward to the LME Workshop at the University of Lausanne and to discussing Annamaria's and Juan's paper The Hidden Costs of Fairness in Platform Markets. Discussion here.
01/12/2024 - Excited to present my work on cyber risk-driven innovation at the Toulouse Digital Conference in January! Program here.
12/09/2023 - Looking forward to contributing to a session on cybercrime & economics at the 4th Boca-Raton ECGI Corporate Finance Conference. Preliminary program here.
11/18/2023 - Thank you to my wonderful students for nominating me as this year’s Best Teacher in the Master of Science in Finance at HEC Lausanne! I look forward to celebrating with you all at the ceremony for the graduates!
11/17/2023 - Happy to deliver a lecture in French at the ICONOMIX conference on the subject of Big Tech. Program here.
09/25/2023 - Exciting news! We are thrilled to announce the kick-start of a collaboration between the Department of Finance of University of Lausanne - UNIL and the CFA Society Switzerland! This collaboration will consist of a mentorship program, in which CFA experts will be mentoring Masters of Finance students from UNIL on building a successful career.
08/02/2023 - Happy to present a paper on cybercrime-driven innovation at ERMAS 2023. Comments welcome! Program here.
07/31/2023 - An exciting white paper coming soon from discussions held at an invited workshop on Economics & AI at the Harvard Business School.
02/15/2023 - On maternity leave until August 2023.
10/20/2022 - The Oxford Man Institute Conference on AI and Financial Markets featured plenty of interesting papers that can be found here.
10/12/2022 - Looking forward to present a new paper on the firm value of consumer data at Imperial College! More details here.
06/15/2022 - Grateful to the BSE Summer Forum organizers for inviting me to present my research in the Information Frictions in Macroeconomics and Finance session. Amazing program and discussions in a wonderful Mediteranean setting! Program here.
05/27/2022 - Excited to participate in the ESADE Spring Workshop on information in financial markets alongside brilliant speakers. Very grateful to Anna Bayona for her discussion. Find the full program here.
05/20/2022 - Tune in to the 4th Future of Financial Information Conference for the latest research on financial information. Details here.
05/17/2022 - Looking forward to participate to the Brussels Economic Forum. A brief overview of the topics to be discussed can be found in this in the Euronews interview here and more details on the forum here.
04/08/2022 - Will discuss a paper on the impact of temporal focus in conference earning calls at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.
03/29/2022 - Join my UNIL-EPFL colleagues, Christian Peukert and Suzanne Vergnolle, and I for interesting discussions and presentations on AI & Regulation at the Applied Machine Learning Days. More details here.
02/20/2022 - Excited to present on FinTech and financial inclusion at the 'Finance for the Greater Good' Conference.
01/20/2022 - Extremely honored and grateful for the support from the Sandoz Foundation - Monique de Meuron Program that will allow me to go further in my research and create the first research taskforce in French-speaking Switzerland on the economics of AI and big data. More details here.
01/13/2022 - Looking forward to present at the 15th Digital Economics Conference in Toulouse.
12/13/2021 - Excited to present my research in the ESSEC Finance Seminar in Paris. More details here.
11/23/2021 - I have contributed for the first time in a crowd paper on non-standard errors in science. The results were presented at The Microstructure Exchange and you can find the paper here.
10/27/2021 - Grateful to have been appointed a CEPR Research Affiliate in the Macroeconomics and Growth programme.
10/20/2021 - Honored to talk about designing data privacy in the digital age in this expert panel at the DC FinTech Week.
09/23/2021 - Tune in to the NBER Economics of AI conference. Find the program here and my discussion here.
06/08/2021 - Honoured to be introduced to the SFI community and to present my research in the SFI Finance Research Days. More details here.
05/21/2021 - Very grateful to present my research in the CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series. More details here.
05/20/2021 - Tune in to the 3rd Future of Financial Conference. I will be chairing an amazing session on apps in finance. Registration here!
03/26/2021 - Honored to receive the 2021 NYU-wide Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Inequality Section. More details here.
02/04/2021 - I was interviewed by the IMF on the topic of financial innovation and rising inequality. Listen to the podcast here.
01/29/2021 - Excited to present my research in the Macro Seminar Series at University College Dublin. More details here.
01/05/2021 - Presented my paper "Financial Technology and the Inequality Gap" at AFA/ASSA. Discussion by Diego Garcia (Boulder). Link here.
11/10/2020 - My paper "Financial Technology and the Inequality Gap" won the ECB Young Economists Competition. More details here.
09/25/2020 - Really enjoyed the NBER Economics of AI conference. I discussed a paper on AI-driven tax policies. See the discussion here.
08/25/2020 - Excited to presented my research at the EEA Congress. More details here.
06/23/2020 - Presented a paper at the WFA. Grateful for a very constructive discussion by Yao Zeng (Wharton).
06/22/2020 - Honoured to win the Cubist Award for Outstanding Research at the WFA. The announcement is here.