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Jes­per Rangvid

Professor

Subjects
Financial institutions Investment Savings Pensions Mortgage finance Interest rates

Primary research areas

Financial markets and the macroeconomy

International finance

Currency crises

Monetary economics

Financial crises

Household finance

Return predictability

Mutual funds

Banks

I strive to bridge finance academia and real-world practice

Jesper Rangvid is a finance academic with extensive industry experience. 

Jesper has published his research in leading scholarly journals. His books How Low Interest Rates Change the World and From Main Street to Wall Street were published by Oxford University Press in 2025 and 2021. He also authors Rangvid’s Blog, where he shares insights on finance and economics.

Jesper has wide-ranging experience serving on commissions and boards of non-executive directors. In 2012-2013, Jesper chaired the government-appointed committee that examined the causes and consequences of the financial crisis in Denmark, producing what is commonly known as the “Rangvid Report.”

Outside activities

I am a member of the Board of Directors at Formuepleje, 2023–now

I am a member of the Board of Directors at Advantage Investment Partners, 2021–now

I am a member of the Board of Directors at Finansiel Stabilitet, 2020–now

Advisor at Verdi, 2024–present

Member of the Board of Directors at the Danish Finance Institute, 2020–present

Chair for the Council for Return Expectations, 2018–present

Writer of an expert report ordered by a Danish court (syns- og skønsrapport), 2025–2025

Industry talks, 2025–present

Member of the Board of Directors at CBS, 2020–2024

Blogposts for Nordnet, 2020–2021

Report for Forenet Kredit, 2021–2021

Member of the Advisory Board (Investments) of Forenet Kredit, 2018–2023

Member of the Board of Directors at Grandhood, 2017–2023

Member of the Systemic Risk Council of the Faroe Islands, 2018–2022