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Bent Jesper Christensen is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University. He is a Research Fellow at the Danish Finance Institute and an External Fellow at the Centre for Financial Econometrics at the University of Essex. His research primarily revolves around econometrics, finance, labor economics, macroeconomics, energy, climate, and environmental economics. His work in econometrics includes methodologies like fractional cointegration and fractional GARCH, along with structural models and dynamic programming search models. In finance, he focuses on asset pricing and the term structure of interest rates, while also investigating the dynamic relationships between emissions, energy, climate, and the economy. Christensen holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University, received in 1990, and has supervised over 45 Ph.D. dissertations and more than 170 Master's theses, predominantly in finance and econometrics. His teaching includes courses on Applied Time Series Econometrics and Fixed Income Analysis for graduate economics students.
Aarhus University • Aarhus, Denmark
Teaching and research in econometrics, finance, and labor economics.
Harvard University • Cambridge, MA, USA
Conducted research in finance and econometrics.
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