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.

2022

2022

29 March, 12:00 - 13:00
Astrid Kunze, NHH
Title: Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom

19 April, 11:30 - 12:30
Ole-Andreas Næss, SNF
Title: Investor Beliefs about a Mispriced Stock
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom

07 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Karin Thorburn and Carsten Bienz, NHH
Title: The Defeasance of Control Rights
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom

06 December, 10:45 - 11:45
Andre Lot, NHH
Title: Longevity Pessimism, Misinformation and Pension Choice
Location: Aud M / Zoom
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

30 June, 12:00 - 13:00
Jing Lan, NHH
Title: How does entrepreneur divorce affect the firm? Evidence from Norway
ZOOM

27 September, 11:00 - 12:00
Zhou Lu, NHH
Title: Chinese Stock Market Pricing Cap and Its Impact
Location: Auditorium O / Teams

05 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Max Rohrer, NHH
Title: The effect of ESG incident location on the market's response
Location: LAB2 / Teams

07 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Espen Eckbo, NHH
Title: Competition shocks, rival reactions, and return comovement
Location: LAB1 / Teams

14 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Nataliya Gerasimova, NHH
Title: How Assets under Advisement move Assets under Management
Location: Karl Borch / Teams

18 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Yue Xue, Aarhus University
Title: Mutual Fund Managers’ Learning From Senior Colleagues - Capital Raising Ability versus Active Investment Skill
ZOOM (Meeting ID: 696 1719 1789 / Passcode: 516268)

02 November, 12:00 - 13:00
Eric De Bodt, NHH - Adjunct Professor
Title: Are investor reactions shaping SEC filings writing?
ZOOM

30 November, 12:00 - 13:00
Simone Traini, NHH Accounting
Title: Blockchain Adoption and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price
Location: Karl Borch / ZOOM

03 December, 13:00 - 14:00
Michael Axenrod, NHH
Title: Do corporate pension decisions affect rivals? Evidence from DB plan freezes
ZOOM

07 December, 12:00 - 13:00
Jing Lan, NHH
Title: Does entrepreneur divorce affect the firm? Evidence from Norway
ZOOM

09 December, 12:00 - 13:00
Zhou Lu, NHH
Title: Market smart: How firms respond to IPO pricing cap in China
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

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 2^nd 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 2^ND FLOOR

Assistant Professor Maximilian Rohrer, NHH

Measuring sentiment in Accounting/Finance

02.10. 14:15 - 15:15

SEMINAR ROOM 231, MERINO 2^ND FLOOR

PhD Research Scholar Loreta Rapushi, NHH

JMP Trial Seminar

08.10. 12:00 - 13:00

SEMINAR ROOM 231, MERINO 2^ND FLOOR

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

Time-varying liquidity in financial markets and strategic traders

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

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

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

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

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

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"