Faculty of Business and Law

Deakin Graduate School of Business

Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen

Program Director, Master of Insurance and Risk Management
Senior lecturer

PhD Southern Cross University, MSc London School of Economics & Political Science, BCom(Hons) University of the Witwatersrand

Campus: Melbourne Burwood Campus
Phone: +61 3 924 45441
Email: michael.cohen@deakin.edu.au

  • Cohen, M. 2010  The Valuation of Intangible Assets: A New Approach Using Hedonic Pricing Models. VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, Germany.
  • Cohen, M and Evans, M 2009, “Valuing intangible assets; what can we learn from financial theory?” in Enhancing Organisational Capability through Knowledge Management, eds J Xu, S Sankaraan & P Milne, Southern Cross University Press, Lismore, pp.209-218.

Teaching Interests

  • Finance
  • Insurance
  • Master of Insurance and Risk Management

Research Interests

  • The structuring of investment assets to meet the needs of retirees (Superannuation, insurance products and other investment structures)
  • The application of behavioural finance in understanding the motivations that determine the accumulation of retirement assets
  • Methods of risk reduction and the reallocation of risk for retirees.
  • The quantification of risk and return for non-liquid businesses and business assets
  • The dynamics aspects of the firm (firm demographics)
  • The characteristics of the assets, with special emphasis on the valuation of intangible corporate assets

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23rd March 2012