Xavier Giroud
Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance
Finance
Ph.D. in Finance, New York University, 2011; M.Phil. in Finance, New York University, 2009; M.A. in Quantitative Economics and Finance, University of St. Gallen, 2005
Joined CBS in 2017
Office:
771
Kravis
E-mail:
[email protected]
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Xavier Giroud is the Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Giroud's research interests are in the area of corporate finance and corporate governance. In particular, his work examines how companies allocate (and misallocate) resources across company units, the interplay between finance and labor, corporate taxation, corporate governance, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He has received various research awards, including the Herman E. Krooss Award for the best doctoral dissertation across all disciplines at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Before joining Columbia, Giroud was the Ford International Career Development Professor of Finance and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Giroud holds an MA in quantitative economics and finance from the University of St. Gallen as well as an MPhil in finance and a PhD in finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University.
Teaching
Spring 2022
Advanced Corporate Finance
(MBA)
(PhD) Financial Econometrics: Panel Data
(PHD)
Empirical Corporate Finance
(PHD)
Spring 2021
Advanced Corporate Finance
(MBA)
(PhD) Financial Econometrics: Panel Data
(PHD)
Empirical Corporate Finance
(PHD)
Spring 2020
Advanced Corporate Finance
(MBA)
(PhD) Financial Econometrics: Panel Data
(PHD)
Empirical Corporate Finance
(PHD)
Fall 2018
Research
Journal articles
Bankruptcy Spillovers
In Journal of Financial Economics
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Xavier Giroud, Benjamin Iverson
State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data
In Journal of Political Economy
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Joshua Rauh
Firm Leverage, Consumer Demand, and Unemployment during the Great Recession
In The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger Mueller
The Impact of Venture Capital Monitoring
In Journal of Finance
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Shai Bernstein, Xavier Giroud, Richard Townsend
Capital and Labor Reallocation within Firms
In Journal of Finance
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger Mueller
Proximity and Investment: Evidence from Plant-Level Data
In The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud
Snow and Leverage
In The Review of Financial Studies
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger Mueller, Alex Stomper, Arne Westerkamp
Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices
In Journal of Finance
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger Mueller
Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?
In Journal of Financial Economics
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger Mueller
Working papers
Firms' Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger Mueller