Professor of Finance
        Department of Financial Economics
        Norwegian School of Management
        Elias Smiths vei 15, PO Box 580
        1302 Sandvika
        Norway

        Tel:  +47 67 55 71 05
        Fax: +47 67 55 76 75
        Email: bruno.gerard@bi.no
 

Research Interests:
Empirical Asset Pricing, International Portfolio Management, Currency Risk, Manipulation and  Equity issues

My Curriculum Vitae: Vita PDF

Employment:
Norwegian School of Management, Department of Finance, Professor, 2001- .
Visiting Professor of Finance, University of  Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI, Jan-Feb 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, University of  Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, The Anderson School at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1995-96 and 1999-2000
Assistant Professor of Finance, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1991-99.
Lecturer in Finance, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1989-91.
Instructor, Operations Management, College of Business, Louisiana State University 1/1984 to 8/1984
Lawyer, member of the bar of Brussels, Taquet and Associates, Banking and Corporate law practice,
August 1981 to June 1982 and July 83 to January 1984

Education
Ph.D.in Finance, The Anderson School at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 1991.
M.B.A.,  Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, June  1983.
Licence en Droit, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, July 1981.
Candidate  in Economics, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, August 1978.
 

Some of my Published Papers
 
            International Asset Pricing and Portfolio Diversification with Time-Varying Risk with Giorgio de Santis, The Journal of Finance, Vol. 52, No. 5. (Dec., 1997), pp. 1881-1912.
            Trading and Manipulation Around Seasoned Equity Offerings with Vikram Nanda, The Journal of Finance, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Mar., 1993), pp. 213-245.
            How Big is the Premium For Currency Risk with Giorgio de Santis, Journal of Financial Economics, 1998, Vol 49, pp. 375-412
 
            The Relevance of Currency Risk in the EMU with G. DeSantis and P. Hillion, Journal of Economics and Business, 2003, Vol 55, pp. 427-462
            Are East Asian Markets Integrated: Evidence from the ICAPM with K. Thanyalakpark and J. Batten, Journal of Economics and Business, 2003, Vol 55, pp. 585-607
 
 

Working Papers
 
            How Important is Intertemporal Risk for Asset Allocation with G. Wu
            International Portfolio Diversification: Industry, Country and Currency Effects Revisited with P. Hillion and F. de Roon
            Generalized Numeraire Portfolios with G. De Santis and F. Ortu
 

Work in Progress
 
 

Teaching
        Finans 2: Corporate Finance Spring 2003
            Syllabus (public)
            Course Homepage (access restricted to students enrolled in class)

        GRA6531 Portfolio Management Fall 2002
            Syllabus (public)
            Tentative Schedule (public)
            Course Homepage (restriced access to students enrolled in class)

        GRA6538 Applied Valuation (Spring 03)
            Syllabus (public)
            Tentative Schedule (public)
            Course Homepage (restriced access to students enrolled in class)

        HRS6005 Topics in Corporate Finance (Fall 02)
            Syllabus
            GT end of chapter problems: Suggested problems
            RWJ end of chapter problems: Suggested problems
 

Seminar series, Department of Financial Economics

Deparment of Finance, Norwegian School of Management - BI