Elise Payzan-LeNestour
School of Banking & Finance - PhD, Swiss Finance Institute | MSc Economics, Paris School of Economics | MSc Statistics, Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance (ENSAE) | École Normale Supérieure (Ulm 2001)
I am a Scientia Fellow and Professor at the UNSW Business School. My research program aims to elucidate how people perceive and react to financial risks, using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods from decision neuroscience, experimental economics, and financial economics. I have been collaborating with top behavioural scientists worldwide, both from North America (Brown University, The California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and The Wharton Business School) and Europe (Geneva University)
I obtained my PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Prior to studying Finance at the SFI, I completed the first part of my PhD at the London School of Economics and studied Economics at Princeton University. I also hold a diploma of engineer statistician from the ENSAE, Paris, and graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, Paris.
From This Author
Navigating the noise: how ambient sound affects trading performance
Ambient sound affects financial traders’ ability to perceive financial risks and UNSW Business School research suggests their workspaces can be designed to improve efficiency
How our brains blind us to 'black swan' economic events
Neurobiological factors blind people to making sound investment decisions when markets are hit by large macroeconomic shocks, according to UNSW Business School research
When bad things happen: Elise Payzan-Le Nestour explains tail risk and black swans
Scientia Fellow Elise Payzan-Le Nestour, Associate Professor in the School of Banking & Finance at UNSW Business School, explains how people perceive and react to financial risks, using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods.
Can high levels of volatility make traders go rogue?
New research sheds light on how risk blindness can develop