Title
Professor

Department
Haas School of Business


Faculty URL
https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/walden-johan/

Research Group
https://haas.berkeley.edu/finance/

Email
walden@haas.berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 643-0547

Fax
(510) 643-1420


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Research Expertise and Interest
financial economics, asset pricing, networks in capital markets, heavy-tailed risks, insurance

Research Description
Johan Walden is a financial economist and expert on risk analysis and?financial and insurance markets, with a particular focus on portfolio risk diversification and risk regulation. His research also covers networks in capital markets.?Professor Walden?holds the Mitsubishi Bank Chair in International Business and Finance?at Berkeley Haas, where he also serves as? Finance Group Chair?and Distinguished Teaching Fellow. He regularly teaches MFE, Ph.D., MBA, and executive education courses covering topics in finance, asset pricing, and financial engineering. He has served as a visiting scholar at other top universities, including NYU’s Stern School of Business, UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Oxford University, Stockholm School of Economics,?and INSEAD.