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

1 February - Argentum Center for Private Equity at NHH, NVCA and Sustainable Insight Conference Annual Conference on Sustainability

7 March - Finans|Bergen Seminar: Professor David Musto The Evolving Landscape of Impact Investing: Many New Questions and a Few Answers

15 March - Finance Seminar: Professor Michael Brennan Title: TBC

10 May - Finance Seminar: Associate Professor David McLean Title: TBC

7 June ➝ 8 June - NICE Conference The 2019 Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics (NICE) Conference

14 June - Finance Seminar: Associate Professor Michael Webe Title: TBC

21 June - CCF Conference

All events at NHH

Department news

All students finds relevant jobs after NHH

NHH 10 January 2019

98.8 per cent of former NHH students have found relevant jobs. The majority are hired before completing their degree, a new candidate survey finds.

Political uncertainty causes concern about foreign investments

8 January 2019 Finance

Foreign acquirers capture a larger share of the acquisition gains relative to local targets in acquisitions amid electoral uncertainty, according to Assistant Professor Kyeong Hun Lee.

Securing the future of publishing

NHH 13 December 2018

Anita Huun asked author Jo Nesbø for help to land her first job after NHH. Fifteen years later, the roles have changed. Now she is responsible for securing author’s income.

Defense: Corporate Finance

PhD Defense 16 August 2018 Finance

On Monday 20 August 2018 Varun Verma will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

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RECENT Publications

Authors	Title	Publication
Friewald, Nils; Nagler, Florian	Over-the-Counter Market Frictions and Yield Spread Changes	Journal of Finance; forthcoming
Lee, Kyeong Hun	Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions amid Political Uncertainty: A Bargaining Perspective	Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming
Pohl,Walt; Schmedders, Karl; Wilms, Ole	Higher-Order Effects in Asset-Pricing Models with Long-Run Risks	Journal of Finance, Volume 73 (3), page: 1061-111
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