Prof. Roxana Mihet
SFI Faculty Member, Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne
Roxana Mihet is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne. She has received multiple awards for her research, including a Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research at the Western Finance Association and a research grant from the Sandoz Family Foundation Monique de Meuron Program for building an interdisciplinary research task force at the University of Lausanne to study both the value and the risks of new financial information technologies.
Expertise
Professor Mihet studies how firms react to cyber risks. Analysis of US data reveals that innovations in digital protection are keeping pace for a subset of AI-intensive firms. These firms invest heavily in personalized cybersecurity innovation, which can have positive spillovers into their overall product and service innovation. For example, AI-intensive companies such as Amazon are integrating advanced security measures into their product offerings themselves (e.g., the 1-click buying feature is based on two cybersecurity patents). Further analysis reveals that despite technological advancements in digital defense, most entities—particularly those beyond the tech sector, small and medium-sized enterprises, and those responsible for governmental and critical infrastructures—remain highly exposed to cyber threats.
Expertise Fields
- Financial Markets
- Financial Crises
- Information and Market Efficiency
- Systemic Risk and Regulation
- Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
- Asset Pricing
- Behavioral Finance and Neurofinance
- Equities
- Personal Finance and Household Choices
- Portfolio Management
- Real Estate
- Financial Institutions
- Banks
- Independent Asset Managers
- Institutional Investors and Funds
- Pension Funds
- Venture Capital and Private Equity
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Financial Risk and Risk Management
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Frontier Topics
- Big Data and Fintech
- Sustainable Finance