Marcel Rindisbacher, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is the Ravi K. Mehrotra Professor of Business, Professor of Finance, and Director of the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets & Society at Boston University\u2019s Questrom School of Business. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and has previously served as Department Chair of the Finance Department and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Research at Questrom. Before joining Boston University, he held a faculty appointment at the University of Toronto\u2019s Rotman School of Management.<\/p>\n
A financial economist by training, Rindisbacher\u2019s work sits at the intersection of asset pricing, mathematical finance, and financial econometrics. His research has advanced understanding of dynamic portfolio choice, life-cycle finance, and the design of pension plans, as well as the use of Monte Carlo and diffusion methods in asset pricing and risk management. More recently, his work is focusing on the role of information flows for the dynamics of asset prices and volatilities. Among his widely cited publications are contributions on dynamic asset allocation, life-cycle pension design, regime-dependent asset pricing, and the pricing of risk under private information, published in leading outlets such as Journal of Finance<\/em>, Review of Financial Studies<\/em>, Journal of Financial Economics<\/em>, Management Science<\/em>, and Econometrica<\/em>.<\/p>\n At Questrom, Rindisbacher has been a core faculty member in the MS in Mathematical Finance & Financial Technology and PhD programs, teaching advanced graduate courses in dynamic portfolio theory, asset pricing, and quantitative methods, and supervising doctoral seminars in finance. His teaching is known for integrating rigorous theory with practical applications for institutional investors, hedge funds, and retirement systems.<\/p>\n Through his leadership of the Mehrotra Institute, Rindisbacher helps shape research, teaching, and public dialogue on how markets and firms interact with society, with a particular interest in how shifting public attitudes toward capitalism should reshape business education and policy-relevant scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15764,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24214,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24207\/revisions\/24214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}