Department of Finance

The department of finance has an international faculty, which does research in all major areas of finance and publishes regularly in the top academic journals.

We have weekly seminars with invited top scholars and a brown bag series for discussion of research ideas. The finance courses attract a large number of students and our faculty members are in high demand as experts in a variety of contexts.

EVENTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

20 August ➝ 22 August - PhD course with Professor Lars Løchstøer Empirical Asset Pricing II

7 June - The Annual Corporate Finance Conference CCF Conference 2019

All events at NHH

Department news

Is the crowd wise?

8 June 2018 Finance Digitalisation

The wisdom of the crowd in crowdfunding markets helps improve the decision making of the individuals, according to several studies. But is the crowd (really) wise?

Crowdfunding taking off

5 June 2018 Finance

With the help of fan donations, game developer Chris Roberts has raised USD 183 mill to develop the popular game Wing Commander. Now, more and more people in Norway are jumping onto the crowdfunding wave.

Crowdfunding. Bitcoin. Machine learning

24 May 2018 Finance Digitalisation

– The impact of informational technology is expected to radically restructure how finance is practiced, Walter Pohl says. On Friday 8 June NHH is hosting the 2018 Bergen FinTech Conference.

Karin Thorburn on teaching

20 April 2018

Research into higher education suggests that students learn best when they are actively participating, whether that be through focused listening, discussion, problem solving or explaining to others.

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RECENT Publications

Authors	Title	Publication
Pohl,Walt; Schmedders, Karl; Wilms, Ole	Higher-Order Effects in Asset-Pricing Models with Long-Run Risks	Journal of Finance, forthcoming
Eckbo, B. Espen; Makaew, Tanakorn; Karin S. Thorburn	Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic?	Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 128 (3); page 443-465
Lee, Kyeong Hun; Mauer, David C.; Xu, Qianying(Emma)	Human Capital Relatedness and Mergers and Acquisitions	Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 129, (1), page 111-135
Kim, Jaewoo; Lee, Kyeong Hun; Lie, Erik	Dividend Stickiness, Debt Covenants, and Earnings Management	Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 34, (4), page 2022–2050
Kisser, Michael; Kiff, John; Soto, Mauricio	Do managers of U.S. defined benefit pension plan sponsors use regulatory freedom strategically?	Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 55, page 1213–1255
Santos, Francisco	IPO market timing with uncertain aftermarket retail demand	Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 42, page 247-266.
Friewald, Nils; Jankowitsch, Rainer; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.	Transparency and Liquidity in the Structured Product Market.	Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Volume 7 (2), page 316-348.
Bakke, Einar; Leite, Tore; Thorburn, Karin S.	Partial Adjustment to Public Information in the Pricing of IPOs	Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 32, page 60-75