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Johan Walden

Johan Walden

Assistant Professor 
Haas Finance Group
510-643-0547
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment F655
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)
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Education

PhD, Financial Economics, Yale University
MA, Financial Economics, Yale University
Docent, Applied Mathematics, Uppsala University
PhD, Applied Mathematics, Uppsala University
MS, Business Studies and Economics, Uppsala University
MS, Engineering Physics, Uppsala University
BA, History, Uppsala University


Positions Held

At Haas since 2005 
2005 - present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
1999 - 2002, Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Stockholm, Sweden


Current Research and Interests

  • Asset pricing
  • Heavy-tailed risks
  • Networks and capital markets

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "Financial Flexibility, Bank Capital Flows, and Asset Prices," (with Christine Parlour and Richard Stanton), Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
  • “Market Selection and Welfare in a Multi-Asset Economy,” (with Yurii Fedyk and Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen), Review of Finance, forthcoming.
  • "Hedging Labor Income Risk," (with Sebastien Betermeier, Christine Parlour and Thomas Jansson), Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
  • "Asset Pricing in Large Information Networks," (with Han Ozsoylev), Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, 146(6), 2252-2280.
  • "Revisiting Asset Pricing Puzzles in an Exchange Economy, with Christine Parlour and Richard Stanton, Review of Financial Studies, 2011, 24(3), 629-675.
  •  "Diversification Disasters," (with Rustam Ibragimov and Dwight Jaffee), Journal of Financial Economics, 2011, 99 (2), 333-348.

Teaching

  • Finance Workshop
  • Introduction to Finance, EWMBA 203
  • Stochastic Calculus, MFE230Q
  • C++ for Finance Professionals

Honors and Awards

  • Schwabacher Fellowship, 2010-2011
  • Earl Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award, 2007, 2009, 2011 



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