Welcome

This is the home page of Peter Christoffersen. Thank you for visiting. I am a finance professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where I teach risk management and derivatives pricing.

I am also affiliated with the Institute of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School and with CREATES at the University of Aarhus.

I am a research fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at Penn, the Volatility Institute at NYU Stern, CIRANO in Montreal, and the ERM Initiative at NCSU.

Here is my CV in PDF format.

Contact Info

Email: peter.christoffersen@rotman.utoronto.ca

Skype: peter.f.christoffersen

Phone: 416-946-5511 (office)

Short Bio

Peter Christoffersen is a Professor of Finance at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.  He is the author of the book Elements of Financial Risk Management and his research articles have been published in a number of leading finance and econometrics journals. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Financial Econometrics, and the Journal of Risk.  He has won research awards from the Q-Group, KPMG, the Montreal Exchange, and STOXX.  He has given invited lectures at the Bank of America, the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the International Monetary Fund among others. Before joining the Rotman School in 2010 he taught at McGill University and worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. He is also affiliated with the Copenhagen Business School and with CREATES. You can find him on the web at www.christoffersen.com.