He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1993, his Masters from ENSAE in 1989 and his undergraduate degree from the École Polytechnique in Paris, France in 1987.

 

Currently he is co-managing Editor of the Journal of Econometrics (since 2012), however, he has served as Editor of the Review of Financial Studies (2003–2006) and Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics (2003–2006), Econometrica (2007–2013), the Journal of Finance (2007–2010), Finance and Stochastics (1996–2011), the Journal of Econometrics (1999–2012) and the Journal of Financial Econometrics (2001–2011). He served as Director of the Western Finance Association (2003–2006) and is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research (since 1995) .

 

Yacine Ait-Sahalia received fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1998–2000) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2008–2009). He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2002, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004, of the American Statistical Association in 2008 and of the Society for Financial Econometrics in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (1998).

 

He received several awards for research excellence, such as the Dennis J. Aigner Award (Journal of Econometrics, 2003), the FAME Annual Research Prize (2001), the Cornerstone Research Award (1998) and the Michael J. Brennan Award (1997).

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Yacine Ait-Sahalia  is the Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics at Princeton University since 2002.  He is also Founding Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance (1998-2014). Prior to that he was Assistant Professor (1993-96), Associate Professor (1996-98) and Professor of Finance (1998)  at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business .