Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in Finance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).
Additionally, I am an External Researcher at the Data Science Hub of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and a Candidate Fellow at Tinbergen Institute (TI).
I hold a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute.
My research interests are financial intermediation, market microstructure and pricing frictions.
You can find my CV here.
To contact me, please write an email to n.kessler@vu.nl.
News!
April: My honours course "Bubbles and Crashes" starts. Here, I walk the brightest of our students through the history of asset bubbles from Tulip Mania to the Crypto Crash.
March: Our paper titled Exclusive Portfolio Dealing and Market Inefficiency turned into DNB Working Paper No. 802.
February: I pitched our new project Informed Intermediation - A Mechanism Design Approach at the VU Finance tenure track workshop.
January: I hosted a PhD Workshop an Elevator Pitches for our PhDs students.
December: I had the honour to give a talk titled Challenges and Solutions in Supervising with Big Data at the TU Delft Finance Research Day 2023.