Brown bag presentations

Brown bag presentations

The brown bag series provide a forum for faculty members and PhD students to exchange ideas about their current research projects.

Brown bag presentations 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?

Brown bag presentations 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?"

Brown bag presentations 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

Brown bag presentations 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 Equillibrium"
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"

Brown bag presentations 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"

Brown bag presentations 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"

Brown bag presentations 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 investement in the presence of lawsuits"
	Carsten Bienz, Department of Finance "The Bullshit Effect in Private Equity Fundraising"

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