Ravi Jagannathan is an American
economist
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The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...
. He is a chaired
professor
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at the
Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
. With the exception of the period 1989–1997 when he was a professor at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
, Jagannathan has been at Kellogg since graduate school.
Jagannathan received a
bachelor's degree
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in
mechanical engineering
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from the
College of Engineering, Guindy
The College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) is a public engineering college in Chennai, India and is Asia's oldest technical institution, founded in 1794. It is also the oldest technical institution to be established outside Europe.
History
Due ...
of
University of Madras
The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in India, incorporated by an a ...
in 1970, an
MBA
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from the
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resourc ...
, India and his
Ph.D.
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from
Carnegie Mellon University.
His research interests are in the areas of
asset pricing,
capital markets
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and
financial institutions
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. Along with
Zhenyu Wang, in 1996 he advanced a variation on the
capital asset pricing model known as "conditional CAPM." Some recent empirical work on options prices supports this model.
He is also among those known for the
Hansen-Jagannathan bounds which provide a way to use security market data to restrict the
volatility of the
stochastic discount factor.
References
External links
Faculty Page, kellogg.northwestern.edu
1950s births
University of Minnesota faculty
Kellogg School of Management faculty
Indian emigrants to the United States
Living people
Financial economists
21st-century American economists
Tepper School of Business alumni
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumni
American academics of Indian descent
The Review of Financial Studies editors
Indian scholars
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