Karl Larsson

About Karl Larsson

Karl Larsson is a senior lecturer in Statistics at Örebro university since 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a M.Sc. in Mathematics from Lund university. Larsson has previously worked as a front-office quantitative analyst in the banking industry, senior statistician, and assistant professor.

Teaching

Larsson has taught financial economics at Lund university for +12 years including courses in asset pricing, derivative assets, portfolio choice, risk management and thesis supervision at the Master program in Finance. He has supervised several degree projects in engineering (industrial economics, finance) and been the assistant supervisor for two PhD-students (both graduated in 2017). Larsson currently teaches courses in computational statistics, basic statistics and mathematics.

Research

Larssons research interests include stochastic modeling and applied stochastic calculus. He has been the principal investigator and sole applicant for research projects funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Crafoord Foundation and Bankforskningsinstitutet. Together with colleagues he has also received funding from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg foundation and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius foundation. His research is published in journals such as Energy Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance and Journal of Commodity Markets and he has served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Official Statistics.