Ulrich Hege

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Ulrich Hege (* 1961 ) is a German economist . He is Director General (Directeur Général) and Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).

Life

Hege studied economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating in economics in 1989, he continued his studies at Princeton University , where he obtained a Master of Arts (1992) and a Ph.D. from Douglas Bernheim. (1994; Essays on corporate finance and on the economic analysis of law ) in Economics. He was then Assistant Professor at the HEC Paris , the University of Tilburg and Associate Professor at the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC). Guest lectureships have taken him to the London Business School (LBS) and the Stern School of Business in New York.

From 2001 to 2015 he was initially an associate professor and then a professor at the HEC Paris, most recently as deputy dean and director of the Ph.D. program there. His research focus is on finance , especially corporate finance ( venture capital , private equity , mergers & acquisitions , etc.). From 2008 to 2012 he held the FBF Chair for Corporate Finance together with Edith Ginglinger and organized the Paris Spring Corporate Finance Conference.

He published a. a. in Management Science , Journal of Financial Economics , Review of Financial Studies , The RAND Journal of Economics, and Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics . He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels and a co-editor of professional journals.

Awards

Hege received several scholarships a. a. from the DAAD , Princeton University , the Volkswagen Foundation , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the European Commission . He was the recipient of the Iddo Sarnat Memorial Award in 1999 and the Prix Syntec in 2014 and 2015 for the best research article in management.

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