Jens Hilscher is a Professor at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, he was at Brandeis University International Business School for 10 years, and has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Together with John Campbell and Jan Szilagyi he received the 2011 Journal of Investment Management Harry M. Markowitz Best Paper Award. His research has investigated the determinants of both firm as well as country level credit risk, pricing and returns of distressed securities, information about future default and systematic risk in credit ratings, information flows between CDS and equity markets, measurement of possible debt deflation using inflation derivatives and corporate bond pricing. He has published articles in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.