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
Department news
NHH students won prestigious case competition
Four students from NHH won one of the world´s biggest business case competitions at Thammasat University in Thailand.
Conference on sustainable ocean resources
THE OCEAN deals with innovations and new collaborations within the sustainable use of ocean resources. `The conference provides a perfect meeting ground to discuss and develop new ideas´says Linda Nøstbakken.
Investors take less risk when their own money is on the line
The more of a manager's wealth is tied to her fund, the less risk she takes and the smaller is each individual investment, according to a NHH study picked up by the «Institutional Investor», New York Times DealBook and other media.
Ownership, Wealth, and Risk Taking: Evidence on Private Equity Fund Managers
New Working Paper by Associate Professor Carsten Bienz, Professor Karin S. Thorburn and Professor Uwe Walz.
RECENT Publications
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Friewald, Nils; Nagler, Florian |
Journal of Finance; forthcoming |
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Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions amid Political Uncertainty: A Bargaining Perspective |
2018 Strategic Management Journal, 39 (11), 2992-3005 |
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Pohl,Walt; Schmedders, Karl; Wilms, Ole |
Higher-Order Effects in Asset-Pricing Models with Long-Run Risks |
2018 Journal of Finance, 73 (3), 1061-111 |
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Eckbo, B. Espen; Makaew, Tanakorn; Karin S. Thorburn |
2018 Journal of Financial Economics, 128 (3), 443-465 |
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Lee, Kyeong Hun; Mauer, David C.; Xu, Qianying(Emma) |
2018 Journal of Financial Economics, 129 (1), 111-135 |