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Erfan Danesh

Education

  • Ph.D., Business Adminstration (Finance), University of Toronto, 2016
  • M.A., Economics, University of Waterloo, 2009
  • M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2008
  • B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2005
Current Research Topics
  • Financial Disclosures, Financial Regulations
  • Information Diffusion in Financial Markets
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2019 - present
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2016 - 2019
  • Strategic Trading and Delayed Disclosure by Informed Traders
    Erfan Danesh
    Working Papers (SSRN) (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2694336
  • Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F
    Susan E. K. Christoffersen, Erfan Danesh, and David Musto
    Rotman School of Management Working Paper (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2661535
  • The Power of Economic Network: Investor Recognition Through Supply-Chain Relationships
    Ling Cen, Erfan Danesh, Chayawat Ornthanalai, and Xiaofei Zhao
    Working paper series (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). Economic Activity Section) (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2572717
  • On Adaptive Lattice Reduction over Correlated Fading Channels
    Hossein Najafi, Mohammad Erfan Danesh Jafari, and Mohamed Oussama Damen
    IEEE Transactions on Communications (2011)
    https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2011.022811.090576
  • Adaptive lattice reduction in MIMO systems
    Mohammad Erfan Danesh Jafari, Hossein Najafi, and Mohamed Oussama Damen
    2008 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (2008)
    https://doi.org/10.1109/ISITA.2008.4895585
  • seminar

    03/2021

    Alternative Reference Rate Committee Meeting

    Futures Market Trading Volume and SOFR Term Rates (Update)

  • seminar

    10/2020

    Alternative Reference Rate Committee Meeting

    Futures Market Trading Volume and SOFR Term Rates

  • conference

    09/2018

    Northern Finance Association

    Strategic Trading and Delayed Disclosure by Informed Traders

  • discussion

    06/2018

    Financial Intermediation Research Society

    Sentiment, Liquidity, and Asset Prices

  • seminar

    09/2018

    Asset Pricing Group, Federal Reserve Board

    Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F

  • conference

    10/2017

    System Committee Meeting on Financial Institutions, Regulation, and Markets Program

    Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F

  • discussion

    09/2017

    Northern Finance Association

    Distilling Liquidity Costs from Limit Order Books

  • conference

    08/2017

    Summer School: Liquidity in Financial Markets and Institutions

    Strategic Trading and Delayed Disclosure by Informed Traders

  • conference

    01/2016

    The American Finance Association (AFA)

    Why Do Institutions Delay Reporting Their Shareholdings? Evidence from Form 13F

  • conference

    11/2015

    The Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA)

    The Power of Economic Network: Investor Recognition through Supply-Chain Relationships

  • conference

    05/2015

    Transatlantic Doctoral Conference

    The Power of Economic Network: Investor Recognition through Supply-Chain Relationships

Awards
  • 2015

    Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

    Excellence in Teaching Award

  • 2015

    University of Toronto

    Doctoral Completion Award

  • 2012

    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

  • 2000

    National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents of Iran

    Silver medal of National Informatics Olympiad

Conference Organization
  • 2023 | Federal Reserve Board

    Federal Reserve Board and American Economic Association Mentoring Program Day-Ahead Networking Conference

    Panellist

  • 2020-2021 | Federal Reserve Board

    Banking and Finance

    Organizer

  • 2016-2019 | Federal Reserve Board

    Finance Forum

    Organizer

Referee
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • Journal of Banking and Finance
  • Journal of Financial Markets
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Last Update: August 2, 2024