Arna Olafsson

Arna Olafsson is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, a Research Fellow at the Danish Finance Institute, a Research Affiliate at CEPR, a CEPR Household Finance Network Member, a member of The Center for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI) at Copenhagen Business School and a Research Fellow at the Pension Research Centre (PeRCent) at Copenhagen Business School. She is also a member of the Icelandic Fiscal Policy Council, in charge of evaluating the government’s fiscal policy. She received her Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2014 and was a visiting student at UC Berkeley 2012-2014. Her main areas of research are household finance, financial intermediation, behavioral finance, sustainable finance, and labor and finance. Her work has been published in top finance and economics journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Financial Studies, and The Review of Finance.

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