I’m Karl Joachim Brende, an economic historian and currently Visiting Research Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School. I completed my Master’s degree in Economic History at the University of Oslo under the supervision of Professor Einar Lie. 

You can find my CV here. 

My research investigates private non-bank mortgage credit, banking and financial history of Scandinavia. With a focus on the evolution of early financial instruments such as bills of exchange, mortgages, trade credit, and bonds. I employ quantitative and interdisciplinary methods, including social network analysis, Machine Learning, and OCR—to understand how these instruments shaped past economic and social life.