Biography
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John Y. Campbell is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994.
Campbell has published over 100 articles on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, portfolio choice, and household finance. His books include Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone (with Tarun Ramadorai, Princeton University Press 2025), Financial Decisions and Markets: A Course in Asset Pricing (PUP 2018), The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (with the Squam Lake Group of financial economists, PUP 2010), Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors (with Luis Viceira, Oxford University Press 2002), and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (with Andrew Lo and Craig MacKinlay, PUP 1997).
Campbell delivered the Ely Lecture to the American Economic Association in 2016 and served as President of the American Finance Association in 2005. He is a Research Associate and former Director of the Program in Asset Pricing at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and holds honorary doctorates from London Business School, BI Norwegian Business School, Copenhagen Business School, the University of Maastricht, and the University of Paris Dauphine. Campbell co-founded and serves on the board of Arrowstreet Capital, LP, a Boston-based quantitative asset management company.