Senior Research Fellow

Born and brought up in Berlin, Germany. At the London School of Economics Jens completed his B.Sc. in Economics with first class honours and received the Raynes and Gerstenberg prizes in Economics. During his undergraduate studies, Jens worked in the Fixed Income Derivatives Sales team of the Chase Manhattan Bank London Global Trading Division. Jens also holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the LSE. He then went on to complete his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, specializing in empirical asset pricing and credit risk. In 2003 Jens visited the Research department of the European Central Bank as part of the Graduate Research Program. In 2005 Jens joined Brandeis University as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the International Business School. Jens joined Kamakura as Senior Research Fellow in January 2008.

Jens' areas of expertise are empirical asset pricing, credit risk, corporate finance, and international finance. His research concentrates on the empirical pricing effects of credit and distress risk on stocks and bonds. He has also worked on investigating the determinants of both firm as well as country level risk.

For a complete listing of publications, working papers, books, etc., of Dr. Hilscher's please see his vita.