David Lando

Presentation

I am a Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School and Director of the Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. I hold a Master''s degree from the joint mathematics-economics program at the University of Copenhagen and a PhD in statistics from Cornell University.
My main area of research in finance is credit risk modelling and risk management and some of my work has appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. I am the author of a monograph on credit risk modeling published by Princeton University Press.
I have been a visiting scholar at among other places Princeton University, the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Before joining Copenhagen Business School, I was a Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Copenhagen.

Primary research areas

• Credit Risk Modeling
• Financial Risk Management
• Derivatives Markets
• The Firm''s Capital Structure

Courses

Credit Risk: Models and Applications

Supervision

PhD and Master''s theses