Contact information

Address:            7 Hate’ena St.  Petah-Tikva, Israel

Telephone:         (Mobile)   +972-52-6645533

Email:       mofkadi@mail.tau.ac.il

 

Education

BERGLAS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. 2013.

Ph.D., financial economics.

 

BERGLAS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. 2006.

MA in economics, major in Microeconomics and Financial economics.

Average grade 90/100, Summa cum Laude.

 

RECANATI SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. 2004.

MBA, major in Finance and Marketing.

Average grade 94/100, Summa cum Laude.

 

TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. 2001.

Undergraduate, double major: Economics and Business Administration.

Summa cum Laude.

 

Research interests

Microeconomic theory, Asset pricing, Capital markets and investments, Corporate finance, Industrial Organization.

 

Research

JOB MARKET PAPER

“The risk of default with quasi-hyperbolic discounting and its implication to asset pricing”

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

• “Optimal Dividend policy and industry dynamics”
• “Location-independent and Bikel-Lehman efficient sets”

 

Publications

• Principle of Finance with Excel 3^rd edition, (co-authored with Benninga). Oxford University Press, New-York 2017.
• The Handbook of Corporate Valuation (Hebrew), (co-authored with Ben-Horin and Yosef). Probook, Tel-Aviv 2013.

• Introduction to Finance (Hebrew), (co-authored with Sharony). Tel-Aviv 2019.

 

Languages

English (fluent), Hebrew (native)

 

Institutions

• Co-manager of the Antitrust and Regulation Forum at Tel-Aviv University (the Eli Hurvitz Institution for Strategic Management). January 2014 – current.

 

Teaching experience

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM, AMSTERDAM BUSINESS SCHOOL, NETHERLAND

Visiting lecturer in the “Master in International Finance” program. Teaching “Financial Engineering”. (March 2015, March 2016, February 2017, February 2018, February 2019)

 

VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Visiting lecturer in the “Executive Education" program. Teaching “Computational Finance”. (May 2016, May 2017, May 2018)

 

NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS, NAGOYA, JAPAN

Visiting associate professor in the “International Business Manager Program”. Teaching “Financial Modeling for Business Managers”, graduate level. (November 2015, October 2016, October 2017, July 2018)

 

TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, TALLINN, ESTONIA

Visiting lecturer in the International summer school. Teaching “Corporate Valuation”. (May 2017).

Visiting lecturer in the Ph.D. program. Teaching “Financial Engineering”. (June 2015)

 

COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOLL, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Visiting lecturer in the “International Summer University Program - ISUP”. Teaching “Financial Engineering” in the graduate and undergraduate programs. (June-July 2015)

 

TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL

Lecturer                                       

• Investment theory (MBA level)                                             2008-2016
• Debt reorganization                                                                2014-2019
• International finance (undergraduate level)                           2015-2019
• Financial engineering/Financial modeling                             2015
• Selected topics in financial markets: corporate valuation      2012-2015
• Introduction to corporate finance (MBA level)                      2009-2018
• Introduction to economics (undergraduate level)                   2006-2012
• Options futures and other derivatives (MBA level)               2008-2019
• Advanced Excel for managers (Kellogg-Recanati)                2012

 

NORTHWESTERN UNIVESITY, KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, CHICAGO IL

Visiting Assistant Professor at the finance department, teaching:

• International Finance                                                       Spring of 2013
• Corporate Finance I                                                         Fall of 2012
• Introduction to Options and Futures seminars                    

 

Teaching assistant

• Corporate finance (MBA level), summer semester.         2008-2011
• Corporate finance for executive summer semester.          2008-2011

 

Seminar presentations

• Israel Economic Association, June 2012
• Interdisciplinary center Herzliya, April 2012
• Tel-Aviv university, November 2011
• Bar-Ilan university, December 2011

 

HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Faculty teaching award, Recanati business school, Tel-Aviv University. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016, 2017.
• Lecturer of the year, Master in International Finance, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. 2016.
• Teaching Award for Excellency (finance), Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2016.
• Best teacher award (one of the best 100 teachers), Tel-Aviv University. 2012.
• Excellence scholarship, Ph.D. program, Berglas School of Economics, TA University. 2008.

 

 

other Professional Experience

[2012-now]     Co-founder of Numerics Economic & Financial Consulting LTD., which specializes in complex issues in the fields of Economics, Finance and Accounting.

• Litigation support as expert opinion (including the use of event-studies).
• Corporate valuations, Derivatives and contingent claim assessment and valuation.
• Analyzing costing systems. Setting optimal pricing policies.
• Supporting financial reports: purchase price allocation (PPA) and impairment analysis.
• Valuation of corporate bonds and loans.
• Analyzing non-competing clauses.
• Competition, regulation and anti-trust projects.

[2006-2012]    Leading many financial and economic consulting projects collaborating with professors.

[2008-2011]    Member of the investment committee of the endowment fund of The Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel.

[2001-2006]    Senior business-development analyst at Agis pharmaceuticals (today Perrigo).