Research Funds

• Bretscher L.
  Debt Markets and the Real Economy
  CHF 320 964, 48 months

• Czellar S.
  A Multi-Identity Perspective on Sustainable Consumer Behavior
  CHF 360'964, 48 months

• Klaus B.
  Probabilistic Matching Markets: Is there a Fairest Mechanism of them All?
  CHF 655'704, 24 months

• Lalive R.
  Helpline Calls, Job Finding, and Interview Training in the Covid-19 Crisis
  CHF 600'000, 36 months
  Project partners: Brülhart M., Cherubini M., and Benghalem Hélène (HEC Lausanne); Kliegel M. (UNIGE), Pellizzari M. (UNIGE)

• Palazzo G., Villeneuve J.-P. (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
  Assessing the nature and impact of transnational corruption through the lens of Swiss businesses
  CHF 557'075, 48 months
  Project Partners: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Universität St.Gallen; Physics Section International Atomic Energy Agency

• Schlager T., de Bellis E. (Universität St.Gallen)
  Autonomous Products & Consumer Well-Being
  CHF 540'814, 48 months

• Shrestha Y. R., von Krogh G. (ETHZ)
  Sustaining Knowledge Creation in Online Communities: Enabling, Creating, and Maintaining
  CHF 569'754, 36 months

• Thoenig M.
  Quantitative spatial Models of Violence and Migration
  CHF 688'906, 48 months

• Wagner J., Zeier A. (ZHAW School of Management and Law)
  Risk perception, mitigation preferences, and value of prevention in smart homes: implications for insurance and risk management
  CHF 263'464, 48 months

• Bangerter A. (UNINE), Garner P. (IDIAP), Schmid Mast M.
  Storytelling and first impressions in face-to-face and algorithm-powered digital interviews
  CHF 700'325, 48 months

• Bacchetta P.
  Persistent Liquidity Traps and Macroeconomic Policies in Open Economies
  CHF 212'918, 36 months

• Chavez V.
  Predicting patient flow congestion using extreme value theory
  Excellence grant
  CHF 314'892, 24 months

• Maurer J.
  Healthy Ageing in the Face of Death: Preferences, Communication, Knowledge and Behaviors Regarding End of Life and End-of-life Planning Among Older Adults in Switzerland
  CHF 420'340, 36 months

• Maurer J., Lutz G. (FORS), Wernli B. (FORS)
  Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Switzerland - 2021-2024
  CHF 3'600'000, 48 months

• Nikolov B.
  Managerial Beliefs and the Cross-Section of Incentives and Compensation
  CHF 217'290, 36 months
  Project partners: Roberto Steri (Luxembourg University); Lukas Schmid (University of Southern California)

• Zehnder C.
  Organizational culture: A Behavioral Perspective
  CHF 468'824, 48 months
  Project partners: Oliver D. Steri (Harvard University); Robert Gibbons (MIT Sloan School of Management); W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University); Holger Herz (UNIFR); Manuel Grieder (ZHAW); Julien Senn (UZH); Cirio (Law Firm)

In 2020, the SNSF granted research funds to 8 promising projects elaborated by our researchers.

• Albrecher H.
  Risk Modelling with Matrix Distributions
  CHF 282'000, 36 months
   
• Benhima K.
  The consequences of corporate liquidity constraints - theory and evidence from Morocco
  CHF 172'099, 24 mois
   
• Brülhart M.
  Tax Competition and Tax Equalisation
  CHF 674'000, 48 months
   
• Conti A., Peukert C., Bechtold S. (ETHZ), Buss P. (WU), Godinho de Matos M. (CLSBE)
  Data Economy; Organization, Innovation and Regulation
  CHF 774'164, 48 months
   
• Hashorva E.
  Asymptotic Constants in Stochastic Models
  CHF 424'182, 36 months
   
• Klaus B.
  Understanding Group Interactions for Social Allocation Problems
  CHF 646'177, 48 months
   
• Lalive R.
  What Workers Want: Determinants and Implications of Job Search Strategies on an Online Job Platform
  CHF 581'926, 48 months
   
• Schürhoff N.
  Sustainable Financial Market Infrastructure: Towards Optimal Design and Regulation
  CHF 381'964, 48 months

In the course of 2019, 15 projects from HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF):

• Conti A.
  Understanding the determinants of startup financial and innovative performance outcomes 
  CHF 382'936, 48 months
   
• Dong, M., Rockinger, M.
  Text Mining Banks' Pillar 3 Reports: Dictionary, Topic Analysis, and Prediction
  CHF 178'418, 36 months
   
• Efferson C., Vogt S. (UNIBE)
  The Power and the Peril of Applied Cultural Evolution: Social Learning and Its Consequences in Heterogeneous Population
  CHF 1'238'967 CHF, 48 months
   
• Esposito E.
  Reconciliation Narratives, the Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War
  CHF 400'405, 36 months
  Project partners: Saia A., Thoenig M.
   
• Hakimov R.
  Behavioral considerations in market design: Dynamic matching mechanisms 
  CHF 622’446, 48 months
   
• Huguenin K., Cherubini M.
  Dissuasive Techniques against Online Privacy Violations by Individuals
  CHF 99'800, 12 months
   
• Krings F.
  Fighting discrimination at employment: Can applicants help reduce bias?
  CHF 618’150, 48 months
   
• Maurer J.
  Inclusive social protection for chronic health problems
  CHF 1'141'459, 36 mois
   
• Rossier J. (co-PI, UNIL), Freund A. (co-PI, UZH), Berchtold A. (UNIL), Krings F., Masdonati J. (UNIL), Ruch W. (UZH), Maggiori C. (HES-SO FR)
  NCCR Lives Program. Project title: Career paths
  ChF 1'100'000, 36 months
   
• Scheidegger S., Kübler F., Schenk O., Folini D.
  Can Economic Policy Mitigate Climate-Change?
  CHF 1'500'000, 48 months
   
• Schlager T.
  How Virtual Reality Affects Consumer Choice
  CHF 453'309, 48 months
   
• Schmid Mast M., Sandi, C. (EPFL)
  Go Where No-One Has Gone: Virtual Reality for Interpersonal Skills Training
  CHF 1'594'190, 48 months
   
• Schmid Mast M.
  Behavioral Adaptability
  CHF 591'754, 48 months
   
• Tischbirek A.
  Evaluating Macro Policies with Micro Data - The Effects of Monetary Policy at the Household Level 
  CHF 89'629, 18 months
   
• Marti, J. (CHUV-UNIL), Peytremann-Bridevaux, I. (UNIL), Wagner, J., Perraudin, C. (Polyclinique Médicale Universitaire, Lausanne), Bugnon, O. (Polyclinique Médicale Universitaire, Lausanne)
  How to improve care integration, coordination and continuity? Designing policy from population needs and preferences
  CHF 337'060, 36 months

From January to December 2018, projects from 18 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 9 million swiss francs:

• Bangerter, A., Gatica-Perez, D., Schmid Mast, M.
  Automatic analysis of verbal and non-verbal behavior and provision of feedback in video selection interviews
  CHF 250'000, 18 months 
   
• Bonardi, J.-P.
  Towards a better understanding of competitive intensity and inter-firm rivalry: a study of mergers, acquisitions and joint-ventures in Europe
  CHF 194'363, 24 months
   
• Benhima, K.
  Capital flows and information frictions
  CHF 289'676, 36 mois
   
• Chavez, V.
  Predicting Patient Flow Congestion Using Extreme Value Theory
  CHF 479'190, 36 months
   
• Czellar, S.
  The Influence of Environmental Identities on Sustainable Market Behaviors
  CHF 561'327, 48 months
   
• Goyal, A.
  The Perils and Prospects of Big Data in Finance
  CHF 310'464, 48 months 
   
• Haack, P.
  Legitimacy as a Multi-level Judgment: Experimental Evidence
  CHF 304'658, 48 months
   
• Hashorva, E.
  Rare Events & Extremes of Multi-Valued Random Fields
  CHF 193'719, 36 months
   
• Huguenin, K., Hubaux, J.-P.
  Pervasive Protection for Lifestyle Tracking Devices and Applications
  CHF 563'257, 36 months
   
• Junod, V., Simon, O., Broers, B., Pautex, S.
  Narcotic medicine, how to define and regulate them in Switzerland 
  CHF 643’523, 48 months
   
• Lalive, R., Pellizzari, M., Cherubini, M., Kliegel, M., Benghalem, H. 
  Unemployment Exit and Entry: Cognition, Nudges, Information, and Eligibility Screening
  (HEC & NCCR Lives project)
  CHF 774'600, 44 months
   
• Panese, F., Wagner, J., Sprumont, D., Strasser B.
  Project partner: Legner, C.
  Development of Personalized Health in Switzerland: Social Sciences Perpectives
  (Sinergia project)
  CHF 2'764'048, 48 months
   
• Philippe, D., Swaton, S.
  The influence of ecological criticism on capitalism: A crossed theoretical perspective between pragmatic sociology and instutitional logics
  CHF 323'787, 36 months
   
• Renne, J.-P.
  Fiscal limits and the pricing of Sovereign debt 
  CHF 173'952, 24 months
   
• Thoenig, M.
  The Refugee’s Dilemma: Uncertain Threat at Home or Costly Asylum Abroad? Evidence from Jewish Emigration in Nazi Germany
  CHF 367'945, 24 months 

In 2017, projects from 11 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 6 million swiss francs:

• Albrecher, H.
  High precision approximations in risk theory with heavy tails
  CHF 199’600, 24 months

• André, P.
  Silent Changes in Financial Disclosure: The Case of Segment Reporting
  CHF 82'930, 36 months

• de Treville, S.
  Using a Volatility Portfolio to Manufacture Competitively in a High-Cost Economy
  CHF 180'798, 36 months

• Hameri, A.-P.
  Analysing delayed and geospatial effects in a supply chain
  CHF 250'286, 12 months

• Maurer, J., Lutz, G.
  A Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Switzerland - 2017-2020
  CHF 3’760’000, 47 months

• Missonier, S.
  Collaboration challenges in cross-boundary teaming
  CHF 341'999, 36 months 

• Montez, J.
  The role of information on inventories and early licensing on market outcomes
  CHF 115'886, 24 months

• Santos-Pinto, L.
  Overconfidence, Dishonesty, and Economic Behavior
  CHF 169'000, 24 months 

• Schuerhoff, N.
  The Empirics of Banking
  CHF 180'000, 12 months 

• Courbage, C., Wagner, J.
  Public-private interactions and intergenerational phenomena in long-term care financing
  CHF 334'000, 36 months

• Zehnder, C., Antonakis, J.
  The Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership 
  CHF 439’608, 36 months

In 2016, projects from 16 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 6 million Swiss francs:

• Arnold, S.
  Cause-Specific Mortality Interactions
  CHF 186'919, 36 months
  Extension: CHF 58'046, 12 months 
   
• Bacchetta, P.
  Slow Moving International Capital Flows
  CHF 431'096, 36 months
   
• Brülhart, M., Schmidheiny, K.
  The Elasticity of Taxable Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland
  CHF 258’280, 24 months
   
• Duparc, J.
  Wadge Reduction on Quasi Polish Spaces
  CHF 177'918, 36 months
   
• Fiori, M.
  Investigating the fluid and crystallized components of emotional intelligence
  CHF 238’122, 26 months
   
• Goette, L., Bruhin, A.
  Understanding Motivations to Donate Blood: The Role of Habits, Social Interactions, and Reciprocity
  CHF 121’149, 9 months
   
• Hashorva, E.
  Extremes of Threshold-Dependent Random Fields
  CHF 174’300, 18 months
   
• Klaus, B.
  Resource Allocation via Immediate and Deferred Acceptance and with Affirmative Action Policies
  CHF 663'578, 42 months
   
• Kocher, B., Czellar, S.
  New perspectives on luxury consumption: Socially valued behaviors, motives and alternative consumption models
  CHF 208’407, 33 months
   
• Maurer, J.
  Inclusive Social protection for chronic health problems
  CHF 2'697'430, 72 months
   
• Marewski, J.
  A convergent model of the fluency heuristic for inference and recognition judgments
  CHF 125'564, 24 months
   
• Mikes, A.
  Towards the Theory and Practice of Pluralistic Management Control
  CHF 186'418, 36 months
   
• Schmid Mast, M.
  Interpersonal Accuracy of Leaders: Effects on Interpersonal Behavior and Interaction Outcomes
  CHF 300'398, 36 months
   
• Van Ackere, A., Larsen, E.R. 
  Co-evolution of electricity markets and their regulation 
  CHF 367'336, 36 months

In 2015, projects from 11 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 1.5 million swiss francs:

• Cadot, O.
  Understanding export growth: The role of "big hits"
  CHF 231'664, 29 months
   
• Garbinato, B.
  MOBIDICT - Privacy-Aware Predictive Platform for Green Mobility
  CHF 238'966, 48 months
   
• Klaus, B., Biermann, F.
  MScE concentration economic theory: HEC Lausanne & ISET Tbilisi
  CHF 104'850, 36 months
   
• Krings, F., Sczesny, S.
  Looking too old or being too old? The impact of objective age and age appearance at hiring
  CHF 274'599, 48 months
   
• Legner, C.
  Don't Guess, Simulate! Understanding User Preferences for Cloud Services
  CHF 126'352, 26 months
   
• Marewski, J., Dietz, J.
  Heuristics in Moral Action
  CHF 12'308, 34 months
   
• Oyon, D.
  Economic-efficacy in Contracting and Legitimacy Reasons for Green Management Execution: What Drives Firms to Adopt Incentives for the Attainment of Environmental Targets
  CHF 211'442, 43 months
   
• Philippe, D., Palazzo, G.
  Exploring the hotbed of the crisis of corporate legitimacy
  CHF 196'919, 36 months
   
• Wagner, J.
  Solvency Levels, Asset Allocation and Risk Management in Swiss Pension Funds
  CHF 181'419, 36 months
   

In 2014, projects from 13 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 3 million swiss francs:

• Benhima, K., Poilly, C.
  News and Noise: Some Empirical and Theoretical Issues
  CHF 159'948, 36 months
   
• Bruhin, A.
  Uncovering Latent Heterogeneity in Economic Behavior
  CHF 151'424, 27 months
   
• Brülhart, M., Bütler, M., Jametti, M., Schmidheiny, K.
  The Swiss Confederation: A Natural Laboratory for Research on Fiscal and Political Decentralization
  CHF 1'000'000, 36 months
   
• Goette, L., Lalive, R.
  The role of social information, incentives, and habits in household electricity consumption
  CHF 228'560, 36 months
   
• Hameri, A.-P.
  Corporate Supply Chain Performance and External Variation in Business Environment
  CHF 257'033, 32 months
   
• Klaus, B.
  Solidarity Properties in General Matching Markets and Social Choice
  CHF 191'398, 36 months
   
• Marewski, J., Hoffrage, U.
  Architectural Process Models of Decision Making
  CHF 188'425, 36 months
   
• Rockinger, M.
  Systemic Risk in the European Banking System: A Network Theoretic Approach
  CHF 109'691, 24 months
   
• Rohner, D.
  The Economics of Ethnic Conflict
  CHF 169'447, 36 months
   
• Thoenig, M.
  Media, Crimes and Votes
  CHF 317'286, 40 months
   
• Zehnder, C.
  Behavioral Economics of Organizations: Contractual Reference Points, Implicit Incentives, and Performance Enhancing Conflicts
  CHF 278'880, 36 months

In 2013, projects from 11 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 1.6 million swiss francs:

• Bonardi, J.-P.
  Media exposure, sustainable activities and firm CSR performance
  CHF 321'246, 48 months
   
• Chavez, V.
  Fitting semi-parametric extreme value models for functions of interest: A direct approach
  CHF 75'160, 45 months
   
• Hameri, A.-P.
  Applying operations management to optimize computing resources
  CHF 199'056, 36 months
   
• Hoffrage, U.
  Simple Heuristics for Human Inferences
  CHF 269'170, 54 months
   
• Klaus, B.
  Paths to Stability and Contracts in General Matching Markets
  CHF 196'770, 36 months
   
• Kocher, B., Morhart, F., Lajos, J.
  Extending Categorization Research in Consumer Domains
  CHF 190'508, 36 months
   
• Lalive, R.
  How do Changes in Potential Benefit Duration Affect Employment and Earnings?
  CHF 58'718, 12 months
   
• Marewski, J.
  Strategy Selection
  CHF 176'876, 36 months
   
• Tomassini, M.
  Evolutionary Games Among Spatially Embedded Mobile Agents
  CHF 71'543, 15 months
   
• Tomassini, M., Lalive, R.
  Games, Networks, and Society
  CHF 121'195, 24 months

In 2012, projects from 7 HEC Lausanne researchers were selected to receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), amounting to a total of more than 2.4 million swiss francs:

• Albrecher, H.
  Mathematical Analysis of Insurance Risk Processes II
  CHF 431'556, 46 months
   
• Czellar, S.
  Investigating the Validity of the Implicit Association Test in Consumer Domains
  CHF 191'424, 36 months
   
• Garbinato, B.
  SOFTEGE: Adaptive Software Platform for Context-aware Green Transportation Services
  CHF 113'380, 24 months
   
• Goette, L.
  Outcome-based or reference-dependent utility? Understanding the psychological mechanisms of valuation
  CHF 549'637, 36 months
   
• Hashorva, E.
  Extremes of Gaussian Processes and Related Random Fields
  CHF 470'301, 39 months
   
• Santos-Pinto, L.
  Rewards and Entry
  CHF 161'424, 42 months
   
• Villa, A., Bader, M., Goette, L., Baud, P.
  NeurEcA: Does working memory training affect decision making? A NeuroEconomic study of ADHD adults and healthy controls
  CHF 500'000, 42 months

NCCR Lives

• Terrier C.

  Diversifying Children Social Networks: Evidence from a Peer-Learning program in French Primary Schools
  25'265 CHF

National Research Program NRP 80: Covid in Society

• Lalive R., Colella F. (Università della Svizzera italiana)
  Impacts of Covid-19 and policy measures on trade, labor demand, and job finding
  CHF 462'435, 36 months

European Parliament (Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs)

• Dinh T., Husmann A., Melloni G.,
  The role of non-financial performance indicators and integrated reporting in achieving sustainable value creation (at a glance / full report)
  EUR 14'000
   

Fondation Philantrophique Famille Sandoz (CH)

• Melloni G.
  Sustainability Accounting
  CHF 600'000, 24 months
   

Innosuisse

• Villa A.
  Mobile environmental bioprocess data acquisition unit for artificial neural network model development
  CHF 113'379, 19 months
  Category: Energy & Environment
   

National Institutes for Health (USA)

• Consortium of researchers from 11 countries
  P.I.: Lillard D.R. (Ohio State University). Professor from HEC Lausanne: Lalive R.
  The economic and social impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies: A cross-country analysis of macro events
  USD 4’401’156, 58 months

armasuisse Sciences+Technnologies, DDPS, federal administration

• Huguenin, K.
  Privacy and Security Implications of the Use of Wearable Devices
  CHF 168'320, 36 months
   

Competence Center Corporate Data Quality

• Legner, C.
  CHF 350'000, 12 months, renewable
   

Diligentia Foundation

• Schmid Mast, M.
  To invest or not invest
  EUR 39'300, 48 months
   

Innosuisse

• Villa, A.
  Data acquisition unit for deep neural network model development
  CHF 15'000, 12 months
   

Swiss Insurance Association

• Wagner, J.
  Research in Risk Management and Insurance
  CHF 80'000, 12 months, renewable
   

Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

• Scheidegger, S.
  Using deep equilibrium nets to solve large-scale dynamic stochastic overlapping generation models
  49'600 node hours on Cray XC50 - Hybrid, 12 months

Adidas

• Legner, C.
  Machine learning for data management
  CHF 385'000, 48 months
   

Competence Center Corporate Data Quality

• Legner, C.
  CHF 350'000, 12 months, renewable
   

CROSS (UNIL-EPFL)

• Lalive, R., Floreano, D. (EPFL)
  Resisting human obsolescence in a world disrupted by machines
  CHF 30'000, 15 months
   

E4S - Enterprise for Society 

• Schmid Mast, M.
  Automatic Detection of Leadership from Voice and Body
  CHF 139'000, 12 months 
  Consortium: Antonakis J., Gatica-Perez D., Garner P., Meister A., Jordan J.
   

Hasler Foundation

• Huguenin, K.
  Improving Web security through integrity verifications
  CHF 48'000, 12 months
   

State Secretariat for Economics Affairs (SECO)

• Lalive, R.
  Vorstudie zu einer Evaluation des Stellenmeldepflicht
  CHF 39'000, 12 months
   

Swiss Insurance Association

• Wagner, J.
  Research in Risk Management and Insurance
  CHF 80'000, 12 months, renewable

Competence Center Corporate Data Quality

• Schmid Mast, M., Sandi, C. (EPFL)
  Self-imitation: How imitating the Virtual Self Can Overcome Social Anxiety and Accelerate Interpersonal Skills Development
  CHF 60'000, 12 months
   

• Maurer, J., Borrat-Besson, C., Holly, A., Seiler, S., Vilpert, S.
  Vieillissement en bonne santé et participation sociale des seniors en Suisse: enjeux et opportunités
  CHF 170'000, 24 months
   

• Esposito, E.
  Disease Outbreaks and Social Disruption in Low-Income Countries
  CHF 300'000, 12 months
   

We extend our congratulations to the following researchers for their promising projects:

Professors:

• Gaia Melloni
• Roxana Mihet
• Virginie Lurkin
• Ziwei Zhao

Postdocs and PhD students:

• Alessandro Silacci
• Alissone Mendes
• Anely Bekbergenova
• Behzad Rezaee
• Evrim Yanar
• James Tyler
• Jean-Charles Pillet
• Jeremy Fannin
• Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat
• Laetitia Renier
• Moritz Gruban / Matthieu Légeret
• Noé Zufferey
• Oriana de Saint Priest
• Renke Schmacker
• Sönke Ehret
• Tyler Kleinbauer
• Yasmin Schwegler
• Yiming Li
• Yiran Guo
• Zitian Qiu

We extend our congratulations to the following researchers for their promising projects:

Professors:

• Gaia Melloni
• Ziwei Zhao

Postdocs and PhD students:

• Konstantinos Armaos
• Anely Bekbergenova
• Mauro Cherubini / James Tyler
• Oriana de Saint Priest
• Jeremy Fannin
• Moritz Gruban / Matthieu Légeret
• Yiran Guo
• Simona Haasova
• Anna Jasinenko
• Matthieu Jost
• Liliane Keopraseuth
• Matthieu Légeret
• Yiming Li
• Ron Rabi
• Renke Schmacker
• Yasmin Schwegler
• Janet Su

Professors:

• John Antonakis
• Mauro Cherubini / Gabriela Villalobos-Zúñiga
• Markus Christen
• Sandor Czellar
• Jörg Dietz
• Kévin Huguenin / Noé Zufferey
• Camille Terrier
• Gaia Melloni
• Michael Rockinger
• Tobias Schlager

Postdocs and PhD students:

• Anaïs Butera
• Anely Bekbergenova
• Fabrizio Colella
• Jeremy Fannin
• Moritz Gruban / Matthieu Légeret
• Emmanuelle Kleinlogel
• Laetitia Renier
• Natasa Tagasovska