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Giuliano Bianchi

Dr Giuliano Bianchi

Dr Giuliano Bianchi

Associate Professor

Expertise

  • Law and economics
  • Applied econometrics
  • Corporate governance
  • Forecasting

Biography

Dr. Giuliano Bianchi is an economist and a jurist that serves as Associate Professor in Economics at EHL. He teaches Micro and Macroeconomics and he conducts empirical research. His areas of expertise are law and economics, corporate governance, and forecasting. Dr. Bianchi serves also as member of the academic board. Before joining EHL, Dr. Bianchi was a Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School where he conducted research on corporate governance. Dr Bianchi’s work has been published in refereed international journals and industry reports.


Dr. Bianchi holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bologna (Italy), a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh (UK), and a Bachelor Degree in Economics from the University of Lugano (Switzerland). He has also a Bachelor in Law (Blaw) from UniDistance and a master in Law (MLaw) from the University of Fribourg.

Awards

Fellowship Harvard University
Scholarship Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Fellowship Programma Marco Polo

Education

PhD in Economics, University of Bologna
Master's Degree in Economics , University of Edinburgh (UK)
Master in Law, University of Fribourg

Courses Taught

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
• Macroeconomics
• Micro-economics

Teaching Location

EHL Campus Lausanne
Academic Publications

Academic publications from Giuliano Bianchi

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CEO compensation and the performance of firms in the hospitality industry : a cross-industry comparison

This study examines whether industry-specific characteristics can explain the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and the performance of firms and, if so, what roles these characteristics may play in affecting the...

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Stock options : from backdating to spring loading

In this article I explore the impact of the introduction of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002 and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s implementation of the Act in 2006 on the options granting process. I show that after the in troduct ion of...

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The effect of price targets on the composition of CEO pay

This article analyzes the impact of price targets from the IBES Detail Price History Target database on CEO compensation retained from Execucomp. The two databases are merged at fiscal year frequency and an OLS regression with fixed effect is used...

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The asset light model : a blind spot in hospitality research

This research note raises the question of the lack of critical appraisal of the asset light model. Its purpose is to trigger an in-depth exploration of the determinants of performance of the implementation of such decision. To explore our argument,...

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Knowledge creation and research production in Swiss hotel schools : a case study of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

This study aimed to analyze the obstacles to knowledge creation and scientific research in tourism and hospitality that Swiss hotel schools face. A case study approach was adopted to analyze the research practices of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne...

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A Bayesian statistics approach to hospitality research

Bayesian statistics approach contraposes inferential statistics by the fact that it introduces experts’ opinion in the quantitative analysis. While this approach has played an increasingly important role in various fields of research, its...

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Testing effects of hospitality employment on property crime in the United States

This study aims to model the effect of hospitality employment on property crime in economic crime equations, in which unemployment either indicates the opportunity cost of crime or suggests the decrease of targets. We developed a model of property...

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A differentiated approach to the asset-light model in the hotel industry

This research note aims to prompt a debate over the asset-light strategy that hotels are increasingly implementing nowadays. First, it evaluates the impact of an asset-light model on hotel firms’ returns, return volatility, and the Sharpe ratio,...

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The impact of brand affiliation on asset values : the case of UK hotels

Using the hedonic pricing method, we study more than 400 hotel transactions in the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2015 to determine the impact of brands on hotel market values. We initially find that hotel brands are negatively associated with...

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Does official development assistance promote tourism demand for donor countries ? Evidence from Switzerland

This study estimates the effect of official development assistance (ODA) on tourism demand of recipient countries for donor countries. We analyzed a panel dataset of 15 recipient countries of Switzerland’s aid from 2005 to 2017, for which data are...

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The legal aspects of hotel rate parity

This research note delineates the conflict of hotel rate parity and key clauses of competition laws in both Europe and the U.S. We trace the origin of hotel rate parity to the principle of most favored nation (MFN) in international trade agreements....

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Journal publications

Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2024). The legal aspects of hotel rate parity. Tourism Economics, 30(5), 1324-1329.

Aroul, R., Hodari. D., Bianchi, G., & Martignoni, G. (2023). The impact of brand affiliation on asset values: the case of UK hotels. Journal of Property Research, 40(2), 157-184

Lopez, L., Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2023). Does official development assistance promote tourism demand for donor countries? Evidence from Switzerland. Tourism Economics, 29(1), 157-171.

Märklin, P., & Bianchi, G. (2022). A Differentiated Approach to the Asset-Light Model in the Hotel Industry. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 63(3), 313-319.

Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2022). Testing effects of hospitality employment on property crime in the United States. Tourism Economics, 28(6), 1545-1565.

Bianchi, G., & Heo, C. (2021). A Bayesian statistics approach to hospitality research. Current Issues in Method and Practice, 24(22), 3141-3150.

Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2020). The short-and long-run hotel demand in Switzerland: A weighted macroeconomic approach. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 44(5), 835-857.

Blal, I., & Bianchi, G. (2019). The asset light model: A Blind Spot in Hospitality Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 76, 39-42.

Chen, Y., Dellea, D., & Bianchi, G. (2018). Knowledge creation and research production in Swiss hotel schools: A case study of EHL. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 31(1), 10-22.

Bianchi, G. (2016). The Effect of Price Targets on the Composition of CEO Pay. Applied Economics, 48(45), 4299-4311.

Bianchi, G. (2016). Stock options: From backdating to spring loading, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 59, 215-221.

Bianchi G., & Chen Y. (2015). CEO compensation and firm performance in the hospitality industry: A cross-industry comparison. International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 15(3-4), 121-138.