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The AXA chair for mathematics at the Insitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

The AXA chair for mathematics at the Insitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques was recently created following a very generous gift by the AXA Research Fund.

With this gift, AXA contributes to the development of fundamental research, key to innovation, and also to the Institute's mission of serving the scientific community. The Chair provides a strong message of the AXA group's support to excellence in French mathematics.

Postdoctoral researchers will support the work of the chairholder.

The Chair will be awarded to Maxim Kontsevich, one of the Institute's permanent professors, who was recruited in 1995 at the age of 33. The breadth and depth of his work have been recognised in many different ways internationally with, for instance, several prestigious prizes, including the Fields medal in 1998 and most recently the Crafoord prize in 2008. He has numerous collaborators across the world because of the unusually broad scope of his work.

The AXA chair for Decision Sciences at HEC

For, HEC "Leadership and Decision Making" is a research priority. Although the theme always has received a lot of attention at HEC at the pedagogical level, because personal development is an important component of the training that HEC offers to its students and participants of executive programs, research activity on the theme is more recent. Academic investments started with the recruitment of several experts in game theory. More recently, several researchers in decision science were hired. The current team of researchers is of sufficient size and quality to develop the ambition to become a leader in Europe on this theme, with the recruitment of additional researchers. The AXA chair will therefore bring full momentum to the development plan of HEC's research activity in decision science, in the broader context of the "Leadership and Decision Making" theme.

AXA Research Chair on Macroeconomic Risk at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

The expression "macroeconomic risk" stands for all the uncertainties, of any origin, that affect the aggregate behavior of an economy (or a collection of them), including those (but not exclusively limited to those) classically associated with monetary and fiscal policy.

A good understanding of this risk and of the instruments to deal with it is of paramount importance for an adequate and prudential steering of modern economies towards stability and sustainable growth. That much has become evident by the present economic crisis.

The Large Risk in Insurance Research Chair (financed through the Risk Foundation)

The AXA Group, in partnership with ENSAE and the École Polytechnique, finances the "Insurance and Major Risk" chair, under the responsibility of Christian Gourieroux and Pierre Picard.

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The AXA-LSE research program on risk management and regulation of financial institutions

The recent financial crisis has focused attention on the nature of banking, risk management and the structure of regulation and has revealed a distance between our understanding of the interconnected behaviour of banks, the structure of the banking systems and layers of regulation.

The AXA Research Programme at LSE will address these issues through the following overlapping projects:

• Compensation Systems in Financial Institutions
• Governance of Banks
• Bank Behaviour and Financial Interconnectedness
• Regulation of the Banking System
• Regulation, Bank Behaviour, Asset Valuation and Risk Management