Tim Peter Bollerslev (born May 11, 1958) is a Danish economist, currently the ''Juanita and Clifton Kreps Professor of Economics'' at Duke University. A fellow of the

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, Bollerslev is known for his ideas for measuring and forecasting

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volatility and for the

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(generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity) model.

Biography

Tim Bollerslev received his MSc in economics and mathematics in 1983 from the

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in Denmark. He continued his studies in the U.S., earning his Ph.D. in 1986 from the

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with a thesis titled ''Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity with Applications in Finance'' written under the supervision of Robert F. Engle (

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winner in 2003). After his graduate studies, Bollerslev taught at the

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between 1986–1995 and at the

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between 1996–1998. Since 1998 he is the Juanita and Clifton Kreps Professor of Economics at Duke University. He and

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are widely regarded as carrying forward the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert F. Engle, as acknowledged by Engle himself.Engle's Autobiography on the Nobel Prize Website
He was a co-editor of the ''

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''.

Articles

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References

External links

Bollerslev's Duke page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bollerslev, Tim 1958 births Living people Duke University faculty 20th-century Danish economists University of California, San Diego alumni Northwestern University faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society 21st-century Danish economists