Speaker: Professor John Y. Campbell, Harvard University
Title: Mortgage Market Structure and Monetary Policy

John Y. Campbell is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He earned his PhD at Yale University in 1984 and subsequently joined Princeton University before moving to Harvard University in 1994.

Campbell has written more than 100 articles on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, portfolio choice, and household finance. His research is published in all leading journals within economics and finance, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, and Review of Economic Studies. Campbell is also the (co-)author of the books The Econometrics of Financial Markets, Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial Systems, and Financial Decisions and Markets: A Course in Asset Pricing. He is a three-time recipient of the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing in Lifelong Financial Security.

Campbell has served as the Editor of Review of Economics and Statistics, Co-Editor of the American Economic Review , and as a member of the Advisory or Editorial Board in several other journals such as Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.

Campbell was the President of the American Finance Association in 2005 and member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association from 2016-2018. He is a Research Associate and former Director of the Program in Asset Pricing at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

For further information, please contact Professor Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen, Tel: 8716 6074, tqpedersen@econ.au.dk