Andreas Fuster
Fields of expertise
Empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking), macroeconomics, behavioral economics.
Biography
Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Swiss National Bank. Andreas's main research interests are in empirical finance, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics. His recent work has focused in particular on the effects of technological advances on household credit markets. Andreas’s research has been published in academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, and the Review of Financial Studies. Andreas obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and also holds an M.Phil. from Oxford University and a B.A. from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), all in economics.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Financial engineering
PhD Students
Baldi Lanfranchi Federico,Courses
Econometrics
The course covers basic econometric models and methods that are routinely applied to obtain inference results in economic and financial applications.
Financial intermediation
This course provides a theoretical and practical overview of what financial institutions do, how they manage their risks, and how they are regulated. The course also discusses the causes and effects of financial crises, and how financial intermediation is affected by technological innovation.
Financial Econometrics I
We provide a comprehensive overview of the econometric tools that are essential to estimate financial models, both for asset pricing and
for corporate finance.