Gilles Chemla

Gilles Chemla is a Professor of Finance and Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology at Imperial College London's Business School. His research interests focus on financial technology, with an emphasis on innovation and its impact on financial systems. Chemla's work explores the intersection of technology and finance, contributing to the understanding of digital transformation in financial services. He is affiliated with the Business School and actively engages in research and leadership roles within the Centre for Financial Technology.

Gilles Chemla is a scholar specializing in corporate finance, corporate governance, financial institutions, fintech, and causal inference. His research explores the intersection of corporate strategies with financial markets, focusing on topics such as crowdfunding, shareholder agreements, and moral hazard. He investigates how firms manage risks and incentives, including vertical integration, hedging, and competition for talent. His work also addresses the role of pension funds in private equity and venture capital, as well as the dynamics of executive compensation and signaling in corporate decision-making. Chemla's research emphasizes empirical rigor, often employing causal inference methods to analyze policy-relevant natural experiments and the behavior of financial actors.