Jan Ericsson
Desmarais Faculty Scholar
PhD, Financial Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
MSc, Financial Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Professor Ericsson joined the Desautels Faculty of Management in the autumn of 1999 with a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics (1997). A former Marie Curie Fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, he is now an associate professor, Director of the Master of Management in Finance.听
Ericsson鈥檚 current research focuses on risk premia in corporate bond and credit derivative markets, and has been published in the聽Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, JFQA and others.听
At 缅北强奸, Professor Ericsson has given derivatives, and fixed income courses at BCOM, MMF,聽MBA and PhD levels.听
At the executive level, Ericsson has spearheaded single- and multi-name credit derivative courses, as well as general seminars on derivatives theory in Montreal, Stockholm, and New York. He has also acted as guest speaker at industry conferences in North America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, Professor Ericsson has carried out consulting projects for a Nordic real estate investment firm, the Swedish National Debt Office, acted as advisor / expert witness to a 聽number of law firms on topics related to derivatives and structured products.听
Selected Publications
鈥淭he Risk and Return of Equity and Credit Index Options鈥 (2024), joint with Hitesh Doshi, Mathieu Fournier and Sang Seo.听Journal of Financial Economics,聽161.
鈥淭ime-varying Asset Volatility and the Credit Risk Puzzle鈥澛(2019), joint with Du Du and Redouane Elkamhi. Journal of Finance,聽74,听1841-1885.听
鈥淟everage and asymmetric volatility: the firm level evidence鈥 (2017), joint with Stefano Mazzotta and Xiao Huang, Journal of Empirical Finance, 38, 1-21.
鈥淐an Structural Models Price Credit Risk? Evidence from Bond and Credit Derivative Markets鈥 (2015). Joint 鈥╳ith Joel Reneby and Hao Wang. Quarterly Journal of Finance, 5(2).听
鈥淧ricing Default Swaps with Observable Covariates鈥 (2013), joint with Hitesh Doshi, Kris Jacobs and Stuart Turnbull, Review of Financial Studies, 26, 2049-2094.听
鈥淭he Cost of Financial Distress and the Timing of Default鈥 (2012), joint with Redouane Elkamhi and Chris Parsons. Journal of Financial Economics, 105, 62-81. Presented at NBER, AFA.
鈥淲hat Risks do Corporate Bond Put Features Insure Against?鈥 (2012). Journal of Futures Markets, 32, 1060-1090.听
鈥淭he Determinants of Default Swap Premia鈥 (2009), joint with Kris Jacobs and Rodolfo Oviedo Helfenberger. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
鈥淟iquidity and Credit Risk鈥 (2006), joint with Olivier Renault (StormHarbour). Journal of Finance, 61.
鈥淓stimating Structural Bond Pricing Models鈥 (2005), joint with Joel Reneby. Journal of Business. vol. 78, no. 2.
Chapters in Books
鈥淎tt v盲rdera ett f枚retag och dess skulder.鈥 (鈥淰aluing a Company and its Debt鈥) in 鈥淔r氓n optionspriss盲ttning till konkurslagstiftning.鈥 (鈥淔rom Option Pricing to Bankruptcy Law鈥, 1997, Clas Bergstr枚m & Tomas Bj枚rk (eds.)).
Fellowships
1997-1999: EU TMR fellowship
Grants
2010-2013: IFM2
2008-2011: SSHRC
2008-2011: SSHRC
2006-2008: IFM2
2005-2007: IFM2
2002-2005: Fonds Qu茅becois de la Recherche sur la Soci茅t茅 et la Culture (FQRSC)
1999-2001: Start-up grant