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Eloic-Anil PEYRACHE

Professor, Dean, HEC Paris

Economics and Decision Sciences

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Biography

Eloïc Peyrache has been Professor of Economics at HEC Paris since 2003. After serving as Associate Dean in charge of pre-experience degree programs (2009-2018), he became Dean of Programs (degree programs and executive education) in February 2019. In parallel, he has founded the Center in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Paris and has been in charge of HEC Paris’s equal opportunity policy. In October 2020, he has been appointed Director General and Acting Dean before being nominated General Director and Dean of HEC Paris in January 2021.

Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, he holds a masters degree in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the Toulouse School of Economics where he obtained his PhD after being a visiting doctoral students at Northwestern University and University of Autonoma in Barcelona.

He is a board member of several companies and non profit organizations. He is also President of a Foundation supporting Social Mobility in Education.  

Scientific articles

Internal vs External CEO Choice and the Structure of Compensation contracts

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, August 2013, vol. 48, n° 4, pp 1301-1331, (in coll. with F. Palomino)

Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter ?

Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, vol. 31, n° 3, pp 443-499, (in coll. with E. ÖRS, F. Palomino)

Aligning Ambition and Incentives

Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, October 2011, vol. 27, n° 3, pp 655-688, (in coll. with A. Koch)

Intermediaries, Credibility and Incentives to Collude

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, february, 3 2011, vol. 20, n° 4, pp 1099-1133, (in coll. with L. Quesada)

Psychological Bias and Gender Wage Gap

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, february, 3 2010, vol. 76, n° 3, pp 563-573, (in coll. with F. PALOMINO)

The Ownership of ratings

RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2009, vol. 40, n° 2, pp 234-257, (in coll. with A. FAURE GRIMAUD, L. QUESADA)

Moral hazard contracts: Does one size fit all?

Economics Letters, September 2008, vol. 100, n° 3, pp 399-401, (in coll. with A.K. KOCH)

Mixed Up? That's Good for Motivation

Economic Theory, January 2008, vol. 34, n° 1, pp 107-125, (in coll. with A. KOCH)

Chapters in edited books

L'économie des marchés de plates-formes

Réussir Le Développement D'Une Offre De Service Dans Les Pmi, HEC Paris, Dunod, 224-227

Working papers

Choosing to Compete

Mimeo , 2024

Optimal Piracy with Network Externalities

Working Paper Series, Social Science Research Network , 2024

Separating the wheat from the chaff: the tradeoff between screening and reputational incentives

Mimeo , 2024

Strategic Certification

Mimeo , 2024

Scientific articles

Internal vs External CEO Choice and the Structure of Compensation contracts

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, August 2013, vol. 48, n° 4, pp 1301-1331, (in coll. with F. Palomino)

Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter ?

Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, vol. 31, n° 3, pp 443-499, (in coll. with E. ÖRS, F. Palomino)

Aligning Ambition and Incentives

Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, October 2011, vol. 27, n° 3, pp 655-688, (in coll. with A. Koch)

Intermediaries, Credibility and Incentives to Collude

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, february, 3 2011, vol. 20, n° 4, pp 1099-1133, (in coll. with L. Quesada)

Chapters in edited books

L'économie des marchés de plates-formes

Réussir Le Développement D'Une Offre De Service Dans Les Pmi, HEC Paris, Dunod, 224-227

Working papers

Choosing to Compete

Mimeo , 2024

Optimal Piracy with Network Externalities

Working Paper Series, Social Science Research Network , 2024

Separating the wheat from the chaff: the tradeoff between screening and reputational incentives

Mimeo , 2024

Strategic Certification

Mimeo , 2024

Education

  • Doctorat en Sciences Economiques (Ph.D. in Economics), Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse I - France
  • Master in "advanced quantitative economics " (D.E.E.Q.A), Université de Toulouse - France
  • Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in economics and management. Specialization in finance, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - France
  • Master in "mathematical economics and econometrics" (DEA), Université de Toulouse - France
  • Agregation in Economics and management (Major: financial analysis and accounting), _ - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2020-2021 Acting Dean, HEC Paris HEC Paris
  • 2020- Professor, Dean, HEC Paris HEC Paris
  • 2019-2020 Dean of Programs HEC Paris
  • 2009-2020 Associate Professor HEC Paris
  • 2008-2019 Associate Dean, HEC MSc in Management HEC Paris
  • 2007-2008 Directeur du développement de l'École HEC HEC Paris
  • 2005-2006 Director of the CEMS Master Program HEC Paris
  • 2004- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

  • 2000-2002 Teaching assistant Université de Toulouse
  • 1999-1999 Teaching assistant Ecole Normale Supérieure

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Member, American Economic Association
  • Member, Econometric Society
  • Membre, European Economic Association

Editorial activities

  • Reviewer, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Recherches Economiques de Louvain