David Ardia
Member, GERAD
 
      Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
              
              Phone: 514 340-6103
            
        Other titles and affiliations
                    Jun 2020 – May 2025
              
              Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
            Research Axes
Research Applications
Publications
      
        Sep 2025
      
  
  
    
    David Ardia, Clément Aymard, and Tolga Cenesizoglu
    
      International Review of Financial Analysis, 105(104369), 16 pages, 2025
      
        
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        Nov 2024
      
  
  
    
    David Ardia, Emanuele Guidotti, and Tim Kroencke
    
      Journal of Financial Economics, 161, Paper no: 103916, 2024
      
        
        BibTeX reference
    
  
      
        Oct 2024
      
  
  
    
    David Ardia, Arnaud Dufays, and Carlos Ordás Criado
    
      Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 42(4), 1155–1168, 2024
      
        
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  News
    Jul  9, 2025
  
  Congratulations to David Ardia and Clément Aymard who, along with Tolga Cenesizoglu, professor in HEC Montréal's Finance Department, won an Award of Excellence at the Association française de finance (AFFI) conference.
    Jun  9, 2025
  
  Since May 1st, 2025, David Ardia has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal.
Congratulations!
    Apr 11, 2025
  
  Created in 2020 by Associate Professor David Ardia (HEC Montréal) and Emanuele Guidotti (a PhD student at Université de Neuchâtel at the time), the COVID-19 Data Hub platform has just won the 2024 Open Data Quality Award, presented by the Canadian Open Data Community.
Events
        Feb 28, 202411:00 AM — 12:00 PM
  
  
        “Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
          
David Ardia – Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
    David Ardia – Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
        Online meeting
    
  
        Apr 14, 202111:00 AM — 12:00 PM
  
  
        GERAD seminar
          
David Ardia – Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
    David Ardia – Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
        Online meeting
    
  Prizes and awards
                  2025
                
                2024 open data quality award
                      Canadian Open Data Community
                    
                
                  2024
                
                Research award for associate professors
                      HEC Montréal
                    
                
                  2022
                
                Award for Teaching Excellence
                      HEC Montréal
                    
                
                  2022
                
                Best Asset Pricing Paper Award
"Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance when Models are Misspecified" (Laurent Barra, Patrick Gargliardini et Olivier Scaillet)
                      38th International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI)
                    
                
                  2021
                
                Best Paper Award for 2018-2019
"Questioning the news about economic growth: Sparse forecasting using thousands of news-based sentiment values"
                      International Journal of Forecasting
                    
                
                  2020
                
                Research Professorship in Sentometrics
                      HEC Montréal
                    
                Editorial Boards & Comittees
Associate Editor
- International Journal of Forecasting, 2025/01
- Journal of Statistical Software, 2025/01
Supervision
                  Mustapha Bouhsen
                  Master's degree
                
              
                  Abdoul Aziz Berrada 
                  Ph.D.
                
              
                  Janos Chaim Raban Füting
                  Ph.D.
                
               
                
                  Thomas Boyer
                  Master's degree
                
              
                  Hair Parra
                  Master's degree
                
              
                  Xi Chen
                  Master's degree
                
              
                  Frédéric Brochu
                  Master's degree
                
              
                  Alyssa Oleas
                  Master's degree
                
              