Mads Markvart Kjær is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, and a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute (DFI). He holds a PhD in Economics and Business Economics from Aarhus University (2021). 

Mads’ research interests include asset pricing, return predictability, and international finance. He is particularly interested in studying and understanding risk premia in financial markets and their behavior over time and in the cross section.

Mads is teaching a 10 ECTS master’s course in Empirical Asset Pricing offered within the Master’s program in Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. The course is based on project-based learning, aiming to equip students with skills and compentence to perform empirical asset pricing studies themselves. In addition, Mads supervises bachelor theses and master theses.