Prof.dr. Ben Jacobsen

Professor Ben Jacobsen is a Professor of Finance at the TIAS Business School at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. His research focuses on forecasting financial markets and behavioral finance. Ben has published over thirty refereed academic journal articles in, among others, the American Economic Review, Management Science and the Journal of Financial Economics. In over five hundred columns and thirty articles he has discussed insights of academic research for professional and private investors. He has written six books on investments and has been a columnist for different Dutch magazines and newspapers (including HP/DeTijd, de Volkskrant and Algemeen Dagblad). Ben is an associate editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance.

His research is actively used by hedge funds and mutual funds around the world and given its practical relevance his academic work has been discussed in major international magazines and newspapers such as the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the New York Times. His work is also regularly quoted on major websites such as Market Watch, Forbes and Barron's.