Prof. Ines Chaieb
SFI Faculty Member, Professor of Finance, Université de Genève
Ines Chaieb is Professor of Finance at the University of Geneva. She is a regular speaker at major academic conferences and workshops on finance worldwide.
Expertise
Professor Chaieb studies equity ownership structure worldwide using a comprehensive database of equity ownership by insiders, governments, and institutional investors. Her work revisits the extent of equity home bias in developed and emerging markets and how it varies across different shareholders. She also studies the role of ESG in predicting institutional ownership and whether institutional investors show distinct ESG preferences for their domestic and foreign investments. Data covering more than 40 countries for 20 years shows that US, UK, and other European institutions tilt their portfolios toward firms with high ESG ratings when they invest at home but not when they invest abroad. These findings imply that ESG investing exposes non-U.S. firms with low ESG scores to underinvestment and a drying up of capital flows to emerging markets.
Expertise Fields
- Financial Markets
- International Financial Markets and Emerging Markets
- Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
- Asset Pricing
- Equities
- Fixed Income
- Foreign Exchange
- Portfolio Management
- Financial Institutions
- Institutional Investors and Funds
- Frontier Topics
- Big Data and Fintech
- Sustainable Finance