
Farshid Jamshidian is a finance researcher, academic and practitioner. His experience covers both
fixed-income
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and
equity research and trading. Dr. Jamshidian has made important contributions to the theory of
derivatives pricing, and has published extensively, especially on
interest rate
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modelling,
amongst other contributions, developing the use of the
forward measure
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, and "
Jamshidian's trick", widely applied in the pricing of
bond option
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s.
He is professor of
Applied Mathematics
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at the
University of Twente
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The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. I ...
, and is at
NIBC Bank
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. He is a member of the Editorial Board of ''The
Journal of Fixed Income''. Previously he was managing director of NetAnalytic, a risk management products and services company he founded in 1999; Managing Director of New Products and Equity Derivatives at
Sakura Global Capital; Executive Director of Technical Trading at
Fuji International Finance; and head of quantitative fixed-income research at
Merrill Lynch
Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment banki ...
. As an academic, he was an associate editor of ''
Finance and Stochastics
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'' and ''The
Journal of Computational Finance'' and served as a faculty member in the mathematics departments at the
University of Chicago
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and the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
He earned a
Ph.D.
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in
mathematics from
Harvard University
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(1980) and an
MSc in
computer science
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from
Stanford University.
References
External links
Prof. Dr. Farshid Jamshidian utwente.nl
SSRN Author Page
Financial economists
Harvard University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Twente faculty
University of Chicago faculty
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Merrill (company) people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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