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Brown bag seminars

The brown bag seminar series provides a forum for faculty members and PhD students at the Department of Finance to exchange ideas about their current research projects.

  • 2021

    2021

    22 April, 16:00 - 17:00
    Katja Kisseleva, ESMT Berlin
    Title: Public funding and  financial performance of entrepreneurial firms
    ZOOM

    04 May, 11:00 - 12:00
    Walt Pohl, NHH
    Title: Strategic Limits of Option Pricing
    ZOOM

    18 May, 11:00 - 12:00
    Roberto Ricco', NHH
    Title: Frequent Batch Auctions vs. Continuous trading: Evidence from Taiwan
    ZOOM

    01 June, 11:00 - 12:00
    Andre Lot, NHH
    Title: Liquidity concerns and tax-incentivized retirement savings
    ZOOM

    17 June, 13:00 - 14:00
    Stig Roar Haukø Lundeby, NHH
    Title: The Impact of Policy on the Risk-Return Relationship
    ZOOM

    18 June, 12:00 - 13:00
    Michael Axenrod, NHH
    Title: Do corporate pension decisions impact product market outcomes? Evidence from DB plan freezes
    ZOOM

  • 2020

    2020

    16 March, 12:00 - 13:00 - CANCELLED
    PhD Markus Lithell, NHH
    Title: Follow the assets: Is the US listing gap 'real'?
    FIN FACULTY LOUNGE 

    20 March, 12:00 - 13:15 - CANCELLED
    Professor Thorsten Hens, University of Zurich 
    Title: TBA
    FIN FACULTY LOUNGE 

    30 March, 12:00 - 13:00 - CANCELLED
    PhD Andre Lot, NHH
    Title: TBA
    FIN FACULTY LOUNGE 

    14 May, 12:00 - 13:00
    Assistant Professor Artashes Karapetyan, ESSEC Business School
    Title: Macroprudential Regulation: Mortgages versus Total Credit 
    ZOOM

    20 May, 12:00 - 13:00
    Associate Professor Konrad Raff, NHH    
    Title: Board Diversity as a Commitment to Monitor 
    ZOOM

    25 May, 12:00 - 13:00
    PhD Markus Lithell, NHH
    Title: The merger-adjusted US listing gap 
    ZOOM

    17 June, 11:00 - 12:00
    Assistant Professors Maximilian Rohrer and Nataliya Gerasimova, NHH
    Title: Is government contracting fair? Estimating the value of female politicians for women-owned firms
    ZOOM

    25 November, 12:00 - 13:00
    PhD Andre Lot, NHH
    Title: Daily, heterogenous, unambiguous mutual fund flows and their performance sensitivity
    ZOOM

    30 November, 12:15 - 13:15
    PhD Damiano Maggi, NHH
    Title: Corporate combinations and industry announcement returns
    ZOOM

    Swedish House of Finance

  • 2019

    2019

    05.02 12:15 - 13:15

    Faculty Lounge

    Assistant Professor Christoph Helmut Herpfe, Emory University - Goizueta Business School

    Information Intermediaries: How Commercial Bankers Facilitate Strategic Alliances

    07.02 12:15 - 13:15

    Faculty Lounge

    Associate Professor Konrad Raff, NHH

    Co-author: Professor Alexander Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)

    Busy Directors: Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies

    23.04. 12:00 - 13:00

    FIN Meeting Room

    Associate Professor Michael Kisser , NHH

    Co-author: PhD Research Scholar Michael Axenrod, NHH

    Does mandatory recognition of off-balance sheet items affect capital structure choice?

    		  

    23.04. 12:00 - 13:00

    Seminar Room 231, Merino 2nd floor

    PhD Research Scholar Damiano Maggi, NHH

    Co-authors: Nataliya Ignatova and Nataliya Gerasimova

    And the CAR goes to...

    01.10. 12:00 - 13:00

    SEMINAR ROOM 231, MERINO 2ND FLOOR

    Assistant Professor Maximilian Rohrer, NHH

    Measuring sentiment in Accounting/Finance

    02.10. 14:15 - 15:15

    SEMINAR ROOM 231, MERINO 2ND FLOOR

    PhD Research Scholar Loreta Rapushi, NHH

    JMP Trial Seminar

    08.10. 12:00 - 13:00

    SEMINAR ROOM 231, MERINO 2ND FLOOR

    PhD Research Scholar Erik Hapnes, EPFL Lausanne/Swiss Finance Institute

    Time-varying liquidity in financial markets and strategic traders
       
       
       

  • 2018

    2018

    06.06, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                      

    Kyeong Hun Lee, NHH

    "Local Labor Market and Corporate Policies"
    07.06, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Lin William Cong, Chicago Booth

    "Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation"
    13.06, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Giorgo Sertsios, Universidad de Los Andes

     "Going Public in Business Groups"
    24.09, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Carten Bienz, NHH

    Co-authored with Antoine Faure-Grimaud, Zsuzsanna Fluck, and Karin Thorburn

    "The defeasance of control rights”

    26.09, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Stig Roar Haukø Lundeby, NHH

    “Conditional dynamics and the multi-horizon risk-return trade-off”

    		  
    15.11, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Xiaoyu Zhang, NHH

     "Going Public and Bank Monitoring: Evidence from Syndicated Loans"
    22.11, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Jose A. Albuquerque de Sousa, NHH

    “The political consequences of financial development: Evidence from the opening of African stock exchanges”
    27.11, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Zhou Lu, NHH

    “Product Market Threats and Bank Lines of Credit in Corporate Liquidity”
    04.12, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Darya Yuferova, NHH

    "Paying for Liquidity: Carrots and Sticks” joint work with Mario Bellia, Marti Subrahmanyam, Loriana Pelizzon, and Jun Uno"
    7.12, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Nataliya Gerasimova, NHH

    "Small Businesses and Government Awards: Gender Gap"
    10.12, 12:00 - 13:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Walter Pohl, NHH

    "Can the Machine Pick Stock Market Winners?"

  • 2017

    2017

    27.02, 12:00 - 13:00          
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                                                                                                                                

    Tom Grimstvedt Meling, University of Bergen

    Anonymous trading in equities
    09.03, 15:00 - 16:00
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Raffaele Giuliana, NHH

    How did the bail-in affect European banks' bonds?
    06.04, 12:00 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

    Evelina Gavrilova and Aija Polakova, NHH

    As it is in (Tax) Haven: Market Attitudes towards Secrecy
    Shopping
    13.06, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Xunhua Su (joint with Xiaoyu Zhang), NHH

    The Benefit of Going Public in Loan Markets and IPO Underpricing
    14.06, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     B. Espen Eckbo, Tuck School of Business - Dartmouth, NHH

    Corporate Rivalry and Stock return Comovement
    20.06, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Tore Leite, NHH

    Security Choice and Expected Announcement Returns
    27.06, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Darya Yuferova, NHH

    Coming Early to the Party: High Frequency Traders in the Pre-Opening Phase and the Opening Auction of Euronext Paris
    28.06, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Konrad Raff, NHH

    Busy Directors: Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies
    27.09, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Riccardo Calcagno, EM Lyon Business School

    Takeover Duration and Negotiation Process
    05.10, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     B. Espen Eckbo, Tuck School of Business - Dartmouth, NHH

    The leverage-profitability correlation revisited
    8.11, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Andre Lot, NHH

     Subjective Survival Probabilities and the Annuity Puzzle - an Experimental Investigation
    16.11, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Wei Shi, NHH

    Follow the Leader: The Effect of Political Turnover on the Use of Proceeds from IPO
    20.11, 12:15 - 13:15 
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Michael Kisser, NHH

    Finding market timing patterns when they are unlikely to exist
    30.11, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Emma Xu, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Texas

    Product Durability and Corporate Policies
    05.12, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Giovanni Bruno, NHH

    Cash-flow Non-linearities and the Risk-reward Trade-off
    14.12, 12:15 - 13:15
    FACULTY LOUNGE

     Tommy Stamland and Jørgen Haug, NHH

    Valuation of Derivatives with Private Information

  • 2016

    2016

    30.03, 12:00-13:00       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                                                                                                                
    		 Florian Nagler, Vienna Graduate School of Finance, and Nils Friewald, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Stock Return and Refinancing Risk"
    24.05, 12:00-13:00       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Chunbo Liu, Department of Finance (NHH) and Wei Shi, Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law (NHH)
    "CEO Expertise and the Design of Compensation Contracts: Evidence from Generalist versus Specialist CEOs"
    24.06, 12:00-13:00       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, UCLA
    "When Information is Assymetric and Stock Ownership is a Consumption Good"
    30.06, 12:00-13:00       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Christoph Herpfer, Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL
    "Officers, Soft Information and Relationship Lending"
    30.08, 12:15-1300       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Patrick Augustin, McGill University
    "Multi-Market Trading and Cross-Asset Integration"
    05.09, 12:00-13:00       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Giovanni Bruno, Department of Financ (NHH)

    PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
    "Call Optimum Prices and Risk in General Equilibrium"
    06.09, 10:15-11:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Negar Ghanbari, Department of Finance (NHH)

    PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
    "Callable Bonds and Liquidity Effects"
    07.09, 10:15-11:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Xiaoyu Zhang, Department of Finance (NHH)

    PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
    "Is corporate social responsibility due partly to agency problems?"
    08.09, 14.15-15:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Stig Roar Lundeby, Department of Finance (NHH)

    PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
    "Consumption - Based Asset Pricing"
    09.09, 12.15-13:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Debashis Senapati, Department of Finance (NHH)

    PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
    "Delegated Agent Asset Pricing Model: Evidence from US Mutual Funds"
    09.09, 14:15-15:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Loreta Rapushi, Department of Finance (NHH)

    PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
    "Leverage-decreasing Recaps and Firm Value"
    12.10, 12:15-13:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Yun Tang, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Reward-timing Uncertainty, Languages and R&D Investment"
    16.11, 12:15-13:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Xunhua Su, Department of Finance (NHH)
    “Do Firms Respond to Industry Rising Stars?”
    30.11, 12:15-13:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     
    		 Darya Yuferova, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Do High Frequency Traders Make Markets? A Study of Paris Euronext"
    14.12, 12:15-13:15       
    FACULTY LOUNGE                                     

    Maximilian Rohrer, Department of Finance (NHH)

    "Challenging management in public, an empirical study of a new governance channel"

  • 2015

    2015

    MAY                                                                                                                                                 Hanqing Wang, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Impacts of Moral Hazard in Governance on Director Turnover: A Natural Experiment Approach"
    SEPTEMBER                       

    Xioayu Zhang, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Product Market Threats and Payment Method in M&A"
         Varun Verma, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Impact of Customer Leverage on Supplier Leverage"
        Raffaele Giuliana, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Leverage, imports and profitability: How did Norwegian private firms react to China's access to WTO?"
      Loreta Rapushi, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Are all leverage-reducing recapitalizations the same?"
      Giovanni Bruno, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "The Impact of Central Clearing on Counterparty Risk?"
      Negar Ghanbari, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "GDP per Capita and Carry Trade Returns"
      Kamil Kladivko, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Employee Stock Options Incomplete Market Valuation and Optimal Exercise: Insiders versus Outsiders"
    OCTOBER Johan Mellberg, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "The Swedish Say-on-Pay Experiment"
      Ole Christian Bech-Moen, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
    "The Government Pension Fund Global - Long-term Asset Allocation?" 
      Eric de Bodt, Lille School of Management Research Centre and SKEMA
    "The full-Stock payment marginalization in M&A transactions"
    NOVEMBER Xunhua Su, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Product market threats and financial contracting: evidence from performance sensitive debt"

  • 2014

    2014

    APRIL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Hanqing Wang, Department of Finance (NHH) "Risk Aversion and CEO Selection"
    MAY

    Karin S. Thorburn, Department of Finance (NHH) "Who initiates corporate takeovers?"
         Tyler Hull, Department of Finance (NHH) "Expertise of Proximity in International Private Equity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
        Cornelius Schmidt, Department of Finance (NHH) "Does traparency increase executive compensation?"
    JUNE  Francisco Santos, Department of Finance (NHH) "Return Predictability Information in Single Country Closed-End Fund Discounts"
      Francisco Santos, Department of Finance (NHH) "Do foreign investors have an edge?"
      Aksel Mjøs and Svein-Arne Persson, Department of Finance (NHH) "Why bankers are boring"
      Michael Kisser, Department of Finance (NHH) "Are profitable firms better investments?"
    SEPTEMBER Yun Tang, Department of Finance (NHH) "CEO Turnover and Social Capital"
      Jens Sørlie Kværner, Department of Finance (NHH) "Oil Beta, Good or Bad?" 
      Aksel Mjøs, Department of Finance (NHH) and Ove Rein Hetland, Ernst & Young (previous PhD student) "Credit to Norwegian firms during the financial crisis"
      Johan Mellberg, Department of Finance (NHH) "Ownership Structure and Cash Holdings in Private Firms"
      Varum Varma, Department of Finance (NHH) "Dividend policy impact on economically linked firms"
      Raffaele Giuliana, Department of Finance (NHH) "How do banks increase the equity ratio?"
    OCTOBER Xunhua Su, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) "Home Equity-Base Refinancing and Household Financial Difficulties: The Case of Norway"
      Chunbo Liu, Department of Finance (NHH) "Growth Opportunities and Debt Covenants: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
    DECEMBER Nikhil Atreya, Department of Finance (NHH) "A dynamic structural model of a bank with correlated assets"

  • 2013

    2013

    MARCH Michael Kisser, Department of Finance (NHH)
     

    Michael Kisser, Department of Finance (NHH)
    APRIL     Zuzana Laffersova, Department of Finance (NHH 
        Tiago Pinheiro, Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law (NHH)
      Hanqing Wang, Department of Finance (NHH)
      Martin Evanger, Department of Finance (NHH)
    MAY Geir Magne Bøe, Department of Finance (NHH)
      Carsten Bienz, Department of Finance (NHH)
      Karin S. Thorburn, Department of Finance (NHH)
    JUNE  Francisco Santos, Department of Finance (NHH) 
      Tommy Stamland, Department of Finance (NHH)
    OCTOBER Tore Leite, Department of Finance (NHH)
      Qiangian Du, University of Stavanger (UiS)
      Tyler Hull, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "US Private Equity Firms and Internaitonal Leveraged Buyout Transactions"
    NOVEMBER Konrad Raff, University of Amsterdam
    "Corporate Governance and Firm Entry"
      Jørgen Haug, Department of Finance (NHH)
    "Optimal sequential investment in the presence of lawsuits"
     

    Carsten Bienz, Department of Finance
    "The Bullshit Effect in Private Equity Fundraising"

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