| Michael Jansson | |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1971[1] |
| Nationality: | Danish |
| Occupation: | Economist, professor |
| Education: | B.A. (1996), M.A. (1998), Ph.D. (2000), Aarhus University[2] |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Berkeley |
| Discipline: | Econometrics |
Michael Jansson is an economist and the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] [4] [5]
Jansson was born in Viborg, Denmark in 1971.[1] He attended high school at the Viborg Katedralskole.[6]
Jansson attended Aarhus University as an economics major starting from 1992.[6] He received his B.A. in Economics in 1996.[1] He completed his M.A. in 1998, but continued to stay at Aarhus University for his Ph.D. He finished his Ph.D. in 2000.[1]
Jansson chose to accept a job offer from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 where he became a research economist. In 2001, he became an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 2007 and a professor in 2013.[7]
Jansson is an associate editor with Econometrica and a co-editor of Econometric Theory and The Econometrics Journal. Jansson became the co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics in 2023.[1]
Jansson won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.[8] Jansson was a Fulbright Scholar from 1996 to 1997. He received an Econometric Theory Multa Scripsit Award in 2005. In 2023, he became a Fellow of the Econometric Society.[1]
Jansson has a wife and two children.[1]