Jan Mossin (1936β1987) was a Norwegian economist.
Born in Oslo, he graduated with a siv.ΓΈk.
degree from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 1959.
After a couple of years in business, he started his PhD studies in the spring semester of 1962 at Carnegie Mellon University.
One of the papers in his doctoral dissertation was a very important contribution (1966) to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
At Carnegie Mellon he was, among others, awarded the Alexander Henderson Award for 1968 for this contribution.
If Jan Mossin had lived longer he would most likely have been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990 together with Professors William F.
Sharpe and John Lintner.After he had finished his PhD he returned to NHH where he in 1968 was tenured professor.
During his time at NHH, Mossin was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1969β1970), New York University (1973β1974), Columbia University (1976), the University of Texas, Austin (1978β1979) and the University of Washington, Seattle (1983β1984).
Mossin was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 1973.