Carol Osler

At a Glance

Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Lemberg MAief Program Ph.D., Princeton University Specializations Currency Market Microstructure, Exchange Rate Dynamics

Contact Information

Sachar International Center, 14
(781) 736 - 4826 [Tel]
(781) 736 - 2269 [Fax]
cosler@brandeis.edu
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Profile

Professor Osler is one of the world's leading academic authorities on the foreign exchange market. At IBS she directs the Lemberg Masters Program in International Economics and Finance and teaches courses on market microstructure and internaional macroeconomics.

She taught previously at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, the Kellogg School of Management, and Columbia University. She also spent a decade in research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Osler earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University and her BA from Swarthmore College.

Her recent publications include:

“Foreign Exchange Microstructure: A Survey,” Forthcoming, Springer Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science.

“Macro Lessons from Microstructure,” International Journal of Finance and Economics 11 (January 2006): 55-80.

“Stop-Loss Orders and Price Cascades in Currency Markets,” Journal of International Money and Finance 24 (March 2005): 219-241.

"Currency Orders and Exchange-Rate Dynamics: Explaining the Success of Technical Analysis," Journal of Finance 58 (October 2003): 1791-1819.

Publications

See list of publications by Carol Osler appearing in IBS's faculty publications database.