Biography
Magnus Dahlquist is the Handelsbanken Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). He is also a Research Fellow with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Dahlquist obtained his doctoral degree in 1995 at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He joined SSE in 1996 and taught at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University between 1998 and 2002. Dahlquist was the Director of the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) in Stockholm between 2003 and 2008.
Dahlquist’s research interests lie in asset management, asset pricing, and international finance. His current research focuses on (i) individuals’ and institutions’ investment behavior and the design of pension plans, (ii) trading strategies in the bond and currency markets and their relation to fundamentals, and (iii) performance evaluation and practical issues related to asset management.
Dahlquist has taught courses on asset management, corporate finance, debt instruments and markets, investments, global financial markets, and international business in MSc, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs at Duke University, London Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, UCLA, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many of his PhD students are placed at academic institutions, central banks, and asset management firms.
Dahlquist has been an advisor to several financial institutions as well as government authorities, including the National Debt Office, the Swedish Pensions Agency, and the Swedish Central Bank. He has also reviewed the active management of the Government Pension Fund Global, the sovereign wealth fund of Norway. He currently serves as academic coordinator for Inquire Europe. Other activities include serving on the investment committees of the Apoteket AB’s Pension Fund, the Church of Sweden, the Nobel Foundation, and the Swedish Society for Medical Research, and being a board member of the mutual fund company Quartile Fonder AB ("Kvartil") and the foundation "Trygg-Stiftelsen" (related to the pension fund "Gamla Livförsäkrings-aktiebolaget SEB Trygg Liv").
Selected publications
- Evaluating Portfolio Performance with Stochastic Discount Factors (with Paul Söderlind), Journal of Business 72 (1999), 347–383.
- The Forward Premium Puzzle: Different Tales from Developed and Emerging Economies (with Ravi Bansal), Journal of International Economics 51 (2000), 115–144.
- Regime-Switching and Interest Rates in the European Monetary System (with Stephen Gray), Journal of International Economics 50 (2000), 399–419.
- Performance and Characteristics of Swedish Mutual Funds (with Stefan Engström and Paul Söderlind), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 35 (2000), 409–423.
- Direct Foreign Ownership, Institutional Investors, and Firm Characteristics (with Göran Robertsson), Journal of Financial Economics 59 (2001), 413–440.
- Corporate Governance and the Home Bias (with Lee Pinkowitz, René M. Stulz, and Rohan Williamson), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 38 (2003), 87–110.
- Pseudo Market Timing: A Reappraisal (with Frank de Jong), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 43 (2008), 547–580.
- International Bond Risk Premia (with Henrik Hasseltoft), Journal of International Economics 90 (2013), 17–32.
- Asymmetries and Portfolio Choice (with Adam Farago and Romeo Tedongap), Review of Financial Studies 30 (2017), 667–702.
- Individual Investor Activity and Performance (with Jose Vicente Martinez and Paul Söderlind), Review of Financial Studies 30 (2017), 866–899.
- On the Asset Allocation of a Default Pension Fund (with Ofer Setty and Roine Vestman), Journal of Finance 73 (2018), 1893–1936.
- Economic Momentum and Currency Returns (with Henrik Hasseltoft), Journal of Financial Economics 136 (2020), 152–167.
- The Missing Risk Premium in Exchange Rates (with Julien Penasse), Journal of Financial Economics 143 (2022), 697–715.
- Pricing Currency Risks (with Mikhail Chernov and Lars Lochstoer), Journal of Finance 78 (2023), 693–730.
- Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers (with Markus Ibert), Review of Financial Studies 37 (2024), 1887–1928.
Selected working papers
- International Capital Markets and Wealth Transfers (with Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, Anna Pavlova, and Julien Penasse, 2023).
- Reassessing Sources of Risk Premiums in Currency Markets (previously, An Anatomy of Currency Strategies: The Role of Emerging Markets) (with Mikhail Chernov and Lars Lochstoer, 2024).
- Institutions’ Return Expectations across Assets and Time (with Markus Ibert, 2024).
Miscellaneous
- A Review of Norges Bank’s Active Management of the Government Pension Fund Global (with Bernt Arne Ødegaard, 2018).
- Currency Risk Premiums: A Multi-Horizon Perspective (with Mikhail Chernov) Foundations and Trends® in Finance 14 (2023), 1–60.
Working papers are available at SSRN (see "Links" on this page).