Jacques-Olivier Charron

Research interests

► Social studies of finance, and more specifically :

⇒ theorizing notions used by financial actors and/or academics (efficiency, transparency, fundamental value), from an investee's point of view;

⇒ political sociology of financial regulation, its actors and normative frameworks;

⇒ ideological and sociotechnical underpinnings of the financial industry.

Publications and communications

Peer-reviewed articles

♦ 2017 – “Inefficient debate. The EMH, the « remarkable error » and a question of point of view”, Accounting Economics and Law, Vol 7, n°3, December 2017.

♦ 2015 – “Toward investee’s capitalism; a civic-market compromise”, Futures, n°68, p. 19-30

♦ 2004 – “L’idéologie de la transparence dans l’audit : une approche de sa dimension médiatique”, Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, juin 2004, p. 105-131.

Book reviews in academic publications

♦ 2018 – “When finance extends its reach, so does the SSCF. A comment on V. Boussard ed., Finance at work”, Accounting Economics and Law.

♦ 2015 – “Le néolibéralisme comme objet de recherche : autour de deux livres clés (William Davies, The limits of neoliberalism, Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, La nouvelle raison du monde). Note critique”, Revue Française de Socio-Economie, n°16.

♦ 2012 – “Max Weber : La Bourse. Compte-rendu d’ouvrage”, Revue Française de Socio-Economie, n°9.

♦ 2012 – “Traité de sociologie économique (P. Steiner & F. Vatin dir.). Book review”, Economic Sociology – the European electronic newsletter, Vol. 13, n°2, p. 51-52.

Other articles

♦ 2019 – Billet pour le blog du pôle “Sociologie politique de l’économie”, du pôle SPE de l’IRISSO, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, 26 décembre 2019, [https://spe.hypotheses.org/1347#more-1347].

♦ 2013 – “Transacting without pricing, pricing without transacting. A case for disconnecting the valuation function from the exchange function of financial markets”, World Economic Review, n°2, p. 48-53.

♦ 2012 – “De quelle “folie” la finance est-elle le vecteur ?”, Nouveaux Cahiers pour la Folie, n°3, septembre, p.56-65

♦ 2005 – “L’idéologie de la transparence”, Regards, 7, p. 22-30.

Book chapters

♦ 2016 – “La régulation financière : questions de point de vue”, in I. Chambost, M. Lenglet & Y. Tadjeddine (eds.), La fabrique de la finance, Presses du Septentrion (english translation in 2018 in The making of finance, Routledge).

♦ 2015 – “Existe-t-il une approche sociologique de la régulation financière ?”, in J. Morel-Maroger, T. Kirat & C. Boiteau (eds.), Droit et crise financière,  Bruylant.

Communications (selection)

♦ 2019 – “Minskyan technocrats? The lost dimension of macroprudential regulation”, Paper presented at the SASE Conference, New York, June 2019.

♦ 2018 – “La valeur fondamentale comme opérateur critique : une perspective”, Paper presented at the AFEP conference, Reims, July 2018.

♦ 2015 – “Systemically unimportant bonuses: the debate on asset managers’ bonuses in the UCITS V discussion”, Paper presented at the SASE Conference, London, July 2015.

♦ 2014 – “Framing and debating European financial regulation: the case of the UCITS V directive”, Paper presented at the SSFA seminar, Paris, and at the COST International Conference, Athens, March 2014.

♦ 2011 – “What it takes for facts to inspire regulation, and how facts change in the meantime: the case of analysts’ conflict of interests”, Paper presented at the COST International Conference, Saint-Denis, November 2011.

♦ 2010 – “Disambiguating efficiency: a question of points of views, transparencies and research designs”, Paper presented at the Finance in crisis / Finance in question Conference, CRESC, Manchester, December 2010.

♦ 2006 – “Transparency in the audit world: an exploratory study of an ideology”, Paper presented at the AAA (American Anthropological Association) Conference, San José, November 2006.

Training

♦ 2010 – Phd in Management, CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)
Thesis title (supervised by Eve Chiapello, then professor at HEC) : La relation entre estimation de la valeur fondamentale des sociétés cotées et évolution de leur cours : une approche fondée sur des études de cas.

♦ 2004-2005 – Individual Study Program, HEC doctoral school (major: accounting and management control).

♦ 1994 – Master in Political Science (DEA d’Etudes Politiques), Université de Rennes I
Memoir title (supervised by Erik Neveu, then professor at Université de Rennes I) : Situer Alain Minc. Topiques, tropismes et cristallisation d’une idéologie dominante.

♦ 1990 – IEP de PARIS diploma (PES [Politique Economique et Sociale] section).

♦ 1990 – Master in Economics (major: International Economics), Université de Paris.