Michael Hasler

Nationality: Swiss

Entered Doctoral Program: 2008

Languages
French: mother tongue
English: fuent
German: good understanding and basic spoken knowledge
Swiss German: good understanding and basic spoken knowledge

Research Interests
Continuous-Time General Equilibrium Asset Pricing, Portfolio Selection, Models of Information and Learning, Differences of Beliefs, and Default Risk

Working Papers

• "Fluctuating Attention to News and Financial Contagion" (Job Market Paper)
• "Investors' Attention and StockMarket Volatility", with Daniel Andrei (revision requested by the RFS)
• "Portfolio Choice and Costly Dynamic Information Acquisition"
• "Fear of Recessions, Heterogenous Beliefs, and Stock Price Under/Over-Reaction",with Julien Cujean
• "Volatility Clustering through Persistent Disagreement", with Daniel Andrei
• "Reduced Form Default in a Pure-Exchange Economy"
  

Honors & Awards

• Best Teaching Assistant Award, M.Sc in Financial Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2012
• Best Teaching Assistant Award, M.Sc in Financial Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2011
• M.Sc. in Finance, University of Lausanne, "Cum Laude", 2008
• B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Neuchâtel, "Cum Laude", 2006

Address
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL
Quartier UNIL-Dorigny, Extranef 129
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Cell
+41 79 7893763

E-mail
Michael.Hasler@sfi-phd.ch

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Curriculum Vitae

PhD in Finance, Swiss Finance Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, expected Spring 2013
Supervisor: Prof. Julien Hugonnier

Visiting Scholar, Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University, USA

M.Sc. in Finance, University of Lausanne, HEC, Switzerland

B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Teaching Assistant, Prof. Julien Hugonnier, Derivatives, M.Sc. in Financial Engineering

Lycée Jean-Piaget, Neuchâtel
Substitute Lecturer in Mathematics