Short CV
  
Employment Associate Professor of Finance, BI Norwegian School of Management, 2005-present
 Founding Director, BI's Centre for Asset Pricing Research, 2012-present
 Visiting Scholar, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-12
 Research Fellow, Banco de España, Spring 2011
 Visiting Professor, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Fall 2009
 Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana, Fall 2009 
 Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004-05 
  
Education Ph.D. in Finance, HEC Lausanne and FAME, December 2003
 Visiting Scholar, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-04
 Visiting Scholar, Columbia Business School, Fall 2001
 MSc. (Lizentiat) in Economics, University of Basel, June 1998 
 BSc. (Vorlizentiat) in Economics, University of Basel, June 1996 
  
Interests Asset Pricing, Corporate Risk Management, International Finance, Portfolio Choice
  
GrantsCCGR Research Grant, Centre for Corporate Governance Research (CCGR) at BI’s Department of Financial Economics, 20011-12
 Leiv Eiriksson mobility grant, The Research Council of Norway, 2011-12
 CCGR Research Grant, Centre for Corporate Governance Research (CCGR) at BI’s Department of Financial Economics, 2009-11
 Finansmarkedsfondet, Research Grant, 2007-09
 CCGR Research Grant, Centre for Corporate Governance Research (CCGR) at BI’s Department of Financial Economics, 2006-08
 Lamfalussy Fellowship, ECB, 2006
 Robert Solow Post-doc fellowship, Centre Cournot pour la Recherche en Economie, 2003-04 
 Young Researcher Post-doc fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2003-04 
 NCCR FINRISK, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2002-03 
 FAME Doctoral Research Grant, 2001 
  
PublicationsGeographical versus Industry Diversification: Constraints Matter, 2006, with Sofia Ramos (CEMAF/ISCTE Business School Lisbon), Journal of Empirical Finance, 13, 396-416
 Why Firms Purchase Property Insurance, 2008, with Daniel Aunon-Nerin (UBS), Journal of Financial Economics, 90, 298-312