IÉSEG creates new research center dedicated to quantitative finance (iℚuant)
04/26/2023
The School is pleased to announce the creation of a new research center dedicated to the field of quantitative finance (iℚuant). Led by Yann BRAOUEZEC, Professor of Finance at IÉSEG, the aim of iℚuant is to carry out and disseminate cutting-edge research activities in quantitative finance, which refers to use of different mathematical and statistical methods and techniques to analyze financial instruments.
A team of 8 international researchers are using such techniques to take forward their research activities in a wide range of areas including financial regulation, market liquidity, monetary policy, commodity markets or asset pricing.
Professor BRAOUEZEC explains: “The center will support these research activities but also support the dissemination of findings to different stakeholders.” Within the framework of iℚuant’s activities, researchers will organize research seminars for an academic audience and conferences to contribute to the dissemination of their work to different stakeholders (including professionals and policymakers).
“Iℚuant is dedicated to organizing events on important topical issues in quantitative finance”, adds Professor BRAOUEZEC. On the 22nd March on the Paris- La Défense campus. IℚUANT has therefore welcomed the Director of Research from the Banque de France in the framework of a conference on the macroeconomic impacts of climate change.
Find out more about the new center on the iℚuant website. You can read a full interview with Professor BRAOUEZEC on IÉSEG Insights.
Research and teaching have been part of IÉSEG’s DNA since its foundation and are fully in line with its 2025 Vision, “Empowering changemakers for a better society”, whose mission is not only to educate managers to be inspiring, intercultural and ethical pioneers of change (through high quality teaching) but also to create the knowledge that enables the rise of innovative leaders and to promote solutions for and with responsible organizations (through active and high-level research). The results of the research are also used to feed the professors’ teaching with cutting-edge knowledge and thus allow for a rigorous, scientific and academic approach. This helps students prepare to become changemakers and to face future challenges in their professional lives.
Research is one of the key pillars of our four Centers of Excellence (each contributing to research, learning and service to stakeholders) which are dedicated to organizational responsibility (ICOR), marketing analytics (ICMA), negotiation (ICON), and intercultural engagement (ICIE). The School has created several centers of research dedicated to topics such as Risk and uncertainty (IRisk) and Family Labor and Migration Economics (IFlame) and is also part of a public research center called LEM (Lille Economie & Management, UMR CNRS 9221), which is supported by the French government, through its research agency CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
