Does Mandatory Board Gender Balancing Reduce Firm Value?
Opinion piece in Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog by B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn.
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.
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Competition and the Use of Credit Lines
On Wednesday 8 June 2022 Zhou Lu will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Does it pay off to quota women onto boards?
Norway was a pioneering country with requirements for the proportion of women on Norwegian corporate boards. Now California has followed with similar requirements. This has led to a heated debate, similar to the one we had earlier in Norway, says Professor Karin Thorburn at NHH.
Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
On Tuesday 26 October 2021 Damiano Maggi will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.