Jon Danielsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Jón.

Jon Danielsson (born October 17, 1963) is an Icelandic economist teaching in the UK and active in the domestic and international policy debate.[1][2]

Jon danielsson

Career

Danielsson is the director of the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics. His research areas include financial risk, hedge funds, regulation of financial markets, market volatility, liquidity, models of extreme market movements, and microstructure of foreign exchange markets. He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Iceland, and Spain, and has published in a range of academic and practitioners' journals, and has presented his work in a number of universities, public institutions, and private firms.[3] He has written extensively on the post-crash situation in Iceland.[4][5]

Jon has published two undergraduate/graduate level text books on forecasting financial risk,[6] a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk and also on financial stability [7] which uses sound economic analysis to frame the discussions on the international financial system.

In 2013, Jon became director of the Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) which was set up to study the risks that may trigger the next financial crisis and to develop tools to help policymakers and financial institutions become better prepared. Based at the London School of Economics, the Centre is generously funded by ESRC with an annual budget of £1 million. Current events schedule can be found on its website. Jon has authored a series of discussion papers on risk and models [8][9] as well as appearing in notable events with major policy makers.[10]

Education

Jon Danielsson received his Ph.D. in the economics of financial markets from Duke University in 1991.

Recent publications

References

  1. ↑ Viewpoints: Where now for capitalism? The Economist, 19 September 2008
  2. ↑ Jon Danielsson: The bill equates to £40,000 per family, The Independent, 6 January 2010
  3. ↑ Bio in Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 1–4, February 2008
  4. ↑ with Gylfi Zoega, “The Collapse of a Country,“ 12 March, 2009
  5. ↑ "Lessons from a Collapse of a Financial System," with Sigridur Benediktsdottir and Gylfi Zoega, Economic Policy Fifty-Second Panel Meeting Hosted by EIEF, 22-23 October 2010
  6. ↑ Financial Risk Forecasting, Wiley (March 25, 2011)
  7. ↑ Global Financial Systems, Pearson, Aug 2013
  8. ↑ Model Risk of Risk Models, SRC Discussion Paper No 11, April 2014
  9. ↑ Risks Models-at-Risk SRC Discussion Paper No 8 January 2014
  10. ↑ Kuroda Says BOJ Doesn’t See Asset Bubbles Forming, March 2014, Bloomberg

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