// Julien Cujean, Phd Candidate, EPFL //

I am on the job market, and will be available for interviews at the January 2013 ASSA meetings in San Diego.

Link to my Curriculum Vitae

Thesis Supervisors

Professor Bernard Dumas
Professor Julien Hugonnier

Research Interests

Asset Pricing, General Equilibrium, Information Economics, Liquidity, Frictions & Incomplete Markets

Working Papers

The Social Dynamics of Performance (Job Market Paper), October 2012

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Social interactions among fund managers cause their performance not to persist. Social interactions do not keep fund managers from extracting large dollar rents, but cause managers to implement passive investment strategies for which they should not be rewarded.

Fear of Recessions, Heterogenous Beliefs, and Stock Price Under/Over-Reaction, October 2011

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(with Michael Hasler) Large difference of opinion induced by fear of recessions is amenable to significant predictability in stock returns at the beginning and at the end of bad economic episodes.

Information Percolation in Centralized Markets, May 2011

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(with Daniel Andrei) Information percolation among a population of investors operating in centralized markets produces momentum in stock returns. A rumor may thereby propagate and lead to reversal when it disappears.

Global Public Signals, Heterogenous Beliefs and Stock Markets Co-movement, February 2010

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(with Daniel Andrei) A slight misinterpretation of a global public signal generates significant co-movement in stock returns in international stock markets.

Dumas & Maenhout (2003) Central-Planning Approach: A Comment, April 2008

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A note that I wrote on the Dumas & Maenhout (2003) Central Planning Approach in Incomplete Markets.