CV and bio

Bio
Björn Hagströmer is a Professor in the Finance section at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, and a Visiting Research Economist at Sveriges Riksbank (the Swedish central bank). He received his PhD in 2010 from Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Björn’s research interest is centered on financial market structure, with applications to asset pricing, financial econometrics, and liquidity measurement. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

A high-resolution photo is available here (Photo credit: Maria Stoetzer)

Education
2010: Ph.D. Management, Aston University (UK)
2006: M.Sc. Economics (Ek.mag.), Lund University (Sweden)
2005: B.Sc. Economics (Pol.kand.), Jönköping International Business School (Sweden)

Employment
2025 – now: Visiting Research Economist, Sveriges Riksbank
2020 – now: Professor, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
2014 – 2020: Associate Professor, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
2010 – 2014: Assistant Professor, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
2009 – 2010: Post-Doc researcher, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University

Fellowships
2015 – onwards: Visiting Fellow at Swedish House of Finance
2014, Sept – Dec: Visiting Researcher at VU Amsterdam, Dept of Finance
2012 – 2014: Visiting Researcher at NASDAQ-OMX Stockholm
2010 – 2013: Wallander fellowship for post-doc research, Jan Wallander and Tore Browaldh Foundation
2007, 2008, 2009: Visiting Scholar at Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, Economics Research (one-week visits)
2008: Visiting PhD student at Lund University, Economics Dept

Current teaching and administrative tasks
Course director of Financial Market Structure at Stockholm Business School.
Ph.D. supervisor for Alexander Hübbert (SBS), Niklas Landsberg (KU Leuven), and Ioannis Tzoumas (Lund University).

Former PhD students
Caihong Xu, Dong Zhang, Goran Zafirov, Ester Félez Viñas, Petter Dahlström, and Chengcheng Qu.

Conference organization
15th Central Bank Workshop on the Microstructure of Financial Markets, Stockholm, 2019 (member of the organizing committee)
Conference on the Future of Financial Information, Stockholm, 2019 (co-chair, with Michal Dzielinski)
Swedish House of Finance FinTech Conference, Stockholm, 2017 (co-chair, with Ingrid Werner)
Conference on the Econometrics of Financial Markets, Stockholm, 2017 (co-chair, with Albert Menkveld)

Disclosure statement
I have received research support from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, the Plato Partnership, and the Swedish House of Finance. From 2018 to 2023, I was a member of the Group of Economic Advisors of the Committee of Economic and Markets Analysis of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). This was an unpaid position.