Pascal François                                              

Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Montréal

Director, IFSID (Montreal Institute of Structured Products and Derivatives)

Research Fellow at CIRPEE

Co-editor of Finance

Email: pascal.francois [at] hec.ca
Tel: +1 514 340-7743
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Selected publications

Strategic Analysis of Risk-shifting Incentives with Convertible Debt

Quarterly Journal of Finance (2011) with Georges Hübner and Nicolas Papageorgiou.

 

Closed-Form Solutions to Stochastic Process Switching Problems

Journal of Mathematical Economics (2008) with Erwan Morellec.

 

The Agency Structure of Loan Syndicates

The Financial Review (2007) with Franck Missonier-Piera.

 

A Dynamic Programming Approach to Price Installment Options

European Journal of Operational Research (2006) with Hatem Ben Ameur and Michèle Breton.

 

Capital Structure and Asset Prices: Some Effects of Bankruptcy Procedures

Journal of Business (2004) with Erwan Morellec.

 

Credit Derivatives with Multiple Debt Issues

Journal of Banking and Finance (2004) with Georges Hübner.

 

Downloadable papers at SSRN

The Immunization Performance of Traditional and Stochastic Durations: A Mean-Variance Analysis, with Franck Moraux.

Credit Spread Changes within Switching Regimes, with Georges Dionne and Olfa Maalaoui.

Detecting Regime Shifts in Corporate Credit Spreads, with Georges Dionne and Olfa Maalaoui.

Resolution of Financial Distress under Chapter 11, with Amira Annabi and Michèle Breton.

Game Theoretic Analysis of Negotiations under Bankruptcy, with Amira Annabi and Michèle Breton.

A Portfolio Approach to Venture Capital Financing, with Georges Hübner.

Currency Total Return Swaps: Valuation and Risk Factor Analysis, with Romain Cuchet and Georges Hübner.