EDHEC Business School

About: EDHEC Business School is a education organization based out in Roubaix, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Portfolio & Capital asset pricing model. The organization has 294 authors who have published 1749 publications receiving 42687 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord & EDHEC Business School.

Managing the financial risks of climate change and pandemics: What we know (and don't know).

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is generating the largest shock in the global economy since 1929. Although the pandemic has been unprecedented in scale and type, such complex, compounding shocks are not uncommon and are more likely in our modern, interconnected world. Our ability to assess and anticipate compounding risks is limited. Here, we propose a framework for assessing the economic losses associated with compounding climate, economic, and pandemic shocks. We propose a new metric, the compound risk multiplier, to measure the scale of the amplification effect and find that this can peak at over 150%; that is, the GDP impacts of the compound shock can be 50% larger than the sum of the individual shocks. Our results suggest that ignoring compounding risks could be a major blindspot in our ability to prepare for future crises. This underlines the urgency of accounting for compounding shocks within financial, fiscal, and crisis risk management.

From an Implicit Christian Corporate Culture to a Structured Conception of Corporate Ethical Responsibility in a Retail Company: A Case-Study in Hermeneutic Ethics

Abstract: This article presents a qualitative research about the way in which business leaders of a retail company gradually clarify the ethical responsibilities of their company – in an ongoing discussion of particular cases. It is based on 12 years of experience as an external member of the ethics committee. The aim of the article is not so much as to evaluate the different single decisions that were made and implemented to make the company meet high ethical standards, but rather to focus on three issues and on how they relate to each other: (1) the shift from a communitarian Christian set of values to a broader secular framework of basic principles; (2) the way in which business people in a retailing company cope with issues that seem ethically troublesome, when reflected upon from a ethical point of view; and (3) how the process of ethical dialogue has led to a typology of the different levels of responsibility that retailers are willing to attribute to themselves according to the kind of problem at stake. The three issues together illustrate how a company that took the business ethics question head-on systematically moved into a particular ongoing collective learning process.

Business Cycle–Related Timing of Alternative Risk Premia Strategies

Abstract: Time variation in risk premia is not a violation of market efficiency but rather a reflection of time-varying economic rewards. By analyzing macroeconomic sensitivities (proxying for good and bad times), the authors show that time-varying returns of certain alternative risk premia strategies are significantly related to economic conditions. On the basis of identified return patterns, the authors construct a risk premia timing strategy that adds statistically significant marginal performance with low turnover. They confront data-mining concerns by successfully cross-validating their model across various investment universes. TOPICS:Analysis of individual factors/risk premia, real assets/alternative investments/private equity Key Findings • The authors show that the returns of certain alternative risk premia strategies are statistically significant related to economic conditions. • Evidence provided give no indication that the documented performance patterns are driven by underlying beta exposure. • Given the observed macroeconomic sensitivities the authors construct a risk premia timing strategy that add marginal performance with low turnover to a risk-parity portfolio.