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Morten G. Josefsen
155 boulevard de Magenta, 75009 ParisBorn 26
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mgjosefsen@gmail.com Norwegian national –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Academic Experience
2003 – 2011BI Norwegian School of ManagementOslo, Norway
PhD Candidate, Financial Economics
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Visiting
HEC Paris
, jointly following their Ph.D. program for the academic years2004 – 2006.
Teaching experience
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HEC Paris
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Introduction to Finance – Fall 2007 – 40 hours – covering time value of money, capital budgeting, portfolio theory and the CAPM.
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Finance AD – Fall 2006, Spring 2007 – 20 hours – introductory finance classfor Grande Ecole students.
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BI Norwegian School of Management
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Management of Financial Institutions – Spring 2004, 50 hours, 3
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year Bachelor degree, with J. Lie, Sparebank1 – course covering the managementof financial institutions including asset/liability management, the use of off balance sheet securities and legal requirements.
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Statistics and Data Analysis – Fall 1995, 10 hours 1
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year Bachelor degree,with E. Rydsaa – introductory course in statistics covering probability theory,Bayesian theory and OLS regressions.
Research interests
: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Banking
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Working papers
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Stakeholder rights and economic performance: The profitability of non-profits – joint with Professor Ø. Bøhren, BI Norwegian School of Management, weinvestigate the financial efficiency of Norwegian banks based on their governance structure.
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Stakeholder conflicts and dividend policy: A cleaner test – joint with Professor Ø. Bøhren, BI Norwegian School of Management and Pål E. Steen, JoTankers, we investigate how dividend policy is used to mitigate stakeholder conflicts in Norwegian banks.
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Ownership and the decision to go public – investigating how the ownershipstructure of private firms influence the decision to go public.
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Ph.D. Courses attended
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Topics in Corporate Finance – B. E. Eckbo, Dartmouth College and H. Hvide, Norwegian School of Business and Economics, 34 hours – coveringtheoretical and empirical Corporate Finance including game theory applied totake-overs, executive compensation and capital structure – Pass withdistinction.
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Asset Pricing – B. A. Ødegaard, Norwegian School of Management, 30 hours – covering discrete time theoretical asset pricing including mathematics of themean variance frontier, CAPM and incomplete markets – Grade A.
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Empirical Finance – F. Franzoni, HEC Paris, 30 hours – covering empiricalasset pricing studying the evidence on the time-series and cross-sectional behaviour of asset prices, and the methodologies used to produce that evidence – Grade 16/20.
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Market Microstructure – T. Foucault and S. Lovo, HEC Paris, 30 hours – covering auction theory and its applications to market microstructure,measures and determinants of liquidity, asymmetric information and static anddynamic models of order book markets – Grade 15/20.
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Asset Pricing Theory – L. Calvet and P. Mella-Barral, HEC Paris, 30 hours – covering continuous time asset pricing including the implications of absenceof arbitrage and stochastic calculus for option pricing – Grade 14/20.
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Topics in Banking and Corporate Finance – U. Hege and E. Örs, HEC Paris,30 hours – covering recent developments in the banking and corporate financeliterature – Grade A.
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Empirical Research in Corporate Finance and Banking – J. Ritter and P.Strahan, CFS-Göthe Universität Frankfurt, 30 hours – covering empiricalresearch in Corporate Finance and Banking – Pass
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Philosophy of Science and Methods of Research – U. Olsson and K. Sogner, Norwegian School of Management, 30 hours – Pass
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Topics in Microeconomics – G. Asheim and A. Hylland, University of Oslo,40 hours – covering Game Theory and applications to Social Choice Theory – Pass
Professional Experience
1999 – 2002Deutsche Bank AGLondon, UK
Research Associate, InterSec Research
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Promoted from Analyst level. Researched the structure of the global assetmanagement industry for this strategic consultancy business within Deutsche Bank inLondon. Clients included leading competitors in the global asset management andfinancial services industries.
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