Ravi Jagannathan

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Ravi Jagannathan is an Indian economist. He is currently a chaired professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the exception of the period 1989-1997 when he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, Prof. Jagannathan has been at Kellogg since he finished graduate school.

Jagannathan received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Madras in 1970, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, capital markets and financial institutions. He is among others famous from the Hansen-Jagannathan bounds which provides a way to use security market data to restrict the volatility of the stochastic discount factor.