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Christopher I. Telmer

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Associate Professor of Financial Economics

Education:
  • University of Western Ontario - B.A. - 1986
  • Queen's University at Kingston - M.A. - 1989
  • Queen's University at Kingston - Ph.D. - 1991
Areas of Expertise:
  • Finance
Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Intertemporal asset pricing theory with incomplete markets, forward-foreign exchange rate determination, aggregate representations of heterogeneous agent economies, international portfolio choice and incomplete markets.
Website and/or personal homepage:
http://bertha.gsia.cmu.edu/telmerc

Published Papers: 
  • Asset Pricing with Idiosyncratic Risk and Overlapping Generations
    Review of Economic Dynamics 10, 2007; 519-548.
    (With: Kjetil Storesletten, Armir Yaron)

  • Prices as Factors: Approximate Aggregation with Incomplete Markets
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2002.
    (With: Stanley Zin)

  • Affine Term Structure Models and the Forward Premium Anomaly
    Journal of Finance 56, 2001.
    (With: D. Backus, Silverio Foresi)

  • Interpreting the Forward Premium Anomaly
    Canadian Journal of Economics XXVIII, 1995; 108-119.
    (With: D. Backus, Silverio Foresi)

  • Asset Pricing Puzzles and Incomplete Markets
    Journal of Finance 48, 1993; 1803-1832.

Working Papers: 
Publications: 
  • "The Risk Sharing Implications of Alternative Social Security Arrangements"
    Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, (January, 1998).
    (With: Kjetil StoreslettenArmir Yaron)

Awards:
  • George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom - 2001
  • BP America Research Chair, GSIA - 1997
  • Department of Industrial Management Undergraduate Teaching Award, GSIA - 1995
  • C.A. Curtis Prize, Queen's University (best doctoral dissertation in Economics) - 1992
Consulting:
  • Educational Consultant (FAST program), Academy of National Economy, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • International Management Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
  • Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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