Sylvain Catherine

Sylvain Catherine was a Ph.D student at HEC Paris and is now an economist and an assistant professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His primary fields of interests are household finance, corporate finance and entrepreneurship.

Education

• 2019 Ph.D. in Finance, HEC Paris
• 2012 M.Res. in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Toulouse School of Economics
• 2011 M.Sc. in Management (Finance major), HEC Paris

Teaching Experience

• 2019 Wharton, Venture Capital & the Finance of Innovation (Undegraduate)
• 2018 HEC Paris, Structural Estimation using Matlab (PhD)
• 2014 HEC Paris, Financial Economics (Undergraduate)
• 2013-14 Paris V University, Introduction to Econometrics (Undergraduate)

Scholarship & Summer School Invitations

• 2012-18 HEC Foundation, PhD Scholarship
• 2017 NBER Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
• 2017 Huebner Doctoral Colloquium Scholar
• 2013-15 Laboratory of Excellence in Economics and Decision Sciences, Scholarship
• 2014 Yale Summer School in Behavioral Finance

Non academic professional experiences

• -002011 Exane BNP Paribas, Equity Research, London (3 month internship)
• 2010 JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mergers & Acquisitions, Paris (6 month internship)
• 2009 Oddo Securities, Equity Sales, Paris (6 month internship)