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Bent Jesper Christensen is a Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University (1990) and maintains affiliations as a Research Fellow at the Danish Finance Institute (DFI) and the Center for Research in Energy: Economics and Markets (CoRE), alongside an External Fellow role at the University of Essex's Centre for Financial Econometrics.
- Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, 1990
His research spans econometrics, finance, labor economics, macroeconomics, and insurance, with notable contributions to fractional cointegration, fractional GARCH models, and structural estimation of dynamic programming/search models. Recent work focuses on climate-energy-economy interactions, asset pricing (term structure of interest rates), and machine learning applications in forecasting.
Current teaching includes Masters-level courses in Applied Time Series Econometrics, Fixed Income Analysis, and Causal Inference. He has supervised over 45 Ph.D. and 170 Masters theses, primarily in finance and econometrics. Key awards include Research Fellowships at DFI and CoRE, and external assessor roles at Danish universities.
- Research Fellow, Danish Finance Institute
- Research Fellow, Center for Research in Energy: Economics and Markets
- External Fellow, University of Essex
His academic activities include organizing conferences like the Danish Doctoral School of Finance and visiting Harvard University as an external researcher (2006-2007). Collaborations involve interdisciplinary work on emissions, energy markets, and financial risk modeling.
