Michael Jansson

Michael Jansson is an economist and the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family professor at the University of California, Berkeley.^[3][4][5]

Michael Jansson
Born	(1971-11-05) November 5, 1971 (age 53)[1]
Nationality	Danish
Occupation(s)	Economist, professor
Academic background
Education	B.A. (1996), M.A. (1998), Ph.D. (2000), Aarhus University[2]
Academic work
Discipline	Econometrics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley

Early life

Jansson was born in Viborg, Denmark in 1971.^[1] He attended high school at the Viborg Katedralskole.^[6]

Jansson attended Aarhus University as an economics major starting from 1992.^[6] He received his B.A. in Economics in 1996.^[1] He completed his M.A. in 1998, but continued to stay at Aarhus University for his Ph.D. He finished his Ph.D. in 2000.^[1]

Career

Jansson chose to accept a job offer from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 where he became a research economist. In 2001, he became an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 2007 and a professor in 2013.^[7]

Jansson is an associate editor with Econometrica and a co-editor of Econometric Theory and The Econometrics Journal. Jansson became the co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics in 2023.^[1]

Awards

Jansson won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.^[8] Jansson was a Fulbright Scholar from 1996 to 1997. He received an Econometric Theory Multa Scripsit Award in 2005. In 2023, he became a Fellow of the Econometric Society.^[1]

Personal life

Jansson has a wife and two children.^[1]