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.
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2025
2025
31 March, 12:00 - 13:00
Aksel Mjøs, NHH
Title: On the Importance of Accounting Information in Early-Stage Financing
Location: Aud. I -
2024
2024
14 March, 10:45 - 11:45
Eric de Bodt, University of Lille
Title: Rivals Returns
Location: Room C11018 April, 12:30 - 13:30
Samuel Piotrowski, NHH
Title: No More Free-Riding: Import Competition and Investment in Corporate Lobbying
Location: Karl Borch26 April, 10:45 - 11:45
Andre Lot, University of Sydney Business School
Title: Environmental Impact Dimensions and Investment Choices
Location: Karl Borch02 May, 12:00 - 13:00
Diego Bonelli, NHH
Title: Good Inflation, Bad Inflation: Implications for Risky Asset Prices
Location: Karl Borch24 May, 12:15 - 13:15
Elizaveta Sizova, NHH
Title: Rebalancing of Currency Hedging and the Impact on Exchange Rates
Location: Aud. M31 May, 12:15 - 13:15
Ivan Alfaro, BI
Title: Production-Based Exchange Rates: The q-Theory of Multinationals
Location: Aud. M03 September, 12:15 - 13:15
Trang Vu, NHH
Title: Conditional Pecking Order
Location: Karl Borch19 September, 11:00 - 12:00
Stephen Szaura, BI Bergen
Title: Blame it on the weather: Market implied weather volatility and firm performance
Location: Karl Borch26 September, 10:15 - 11:15
Alexis Wegerich, NBIM
Title: Leading by Example: Can One Universal Shareholder’s Voting Pre-Disclosure Influence Voting
Location: Aud. N08 October, 11:00 - 12:00
Markus Lithell, Pamplin College of Business - Virginia Tech
Title: Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes
Location: Karl Borch24 October, 12:15 - 13:15
Elizaveta Sizova, NHH
Title: Central Bank Liquidity Lines: Implications for Financial Markets and Banks
Location: Aud. N31 October, 12:15 - 13:15
Cédric Huylebroek, KU Leuven
Title: Banking on Deposit Relationships: Implications for Hold-Up Problems in the Loan Market
Location: Aud. B21 November, 11:00 - 12:00
Jiaying Li, NHH
Title: Home Not-So-Sweet Home: Home Bias in Supply Chain Relationships
Location: Aud. C -
2023
2023
09 February, 12:15 - 13:15
Thorsten Hens, NHH
Title: When Greta meets Warren
Location: Karl Borch20 March, 12:15-13:15
Evarist Stoja, NHH
Title: On the Pricing of Tail Risk
Location: Aud. L / Zoom28 March, 12:00-13:00
Stephen Szaura, BI Bergen
Title: Does News, Order Flow, or Illiquidity drive jumps in stock returns? In the day or in the night?
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom20 April, 12:15-13:15
Christoph Gschnaidtner, Technische Universität München
Title: Adoption and diffusion of blockchain technology
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom25 May, 12:15-13:15
Cédric Huylebroek, KU Leuven
Title: The Real Effects of Bank Inspections: Evidence from Brazil
Location: Aud. C / Zoom07 June, 12:15-13:15
Per Östberg, University of Zurich
Title: Difference-in-differences with Economic Factors and the Case of Housing Returns
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom13 September, 12:15-13:15
Markus Lithell, NHH
Title: Why are acquisitions of unlisted firms better deals? Evidence from OTC markets
Location: Aud. F / Zoom29 September, 12:15-13:15
Diego Bonelli, NHH
Title: Inflation Risk and Yield Spread Changes
Location: Aud. F / Zoom12 October, 12:15-13:15
Alois Weigand, University of St. Gallen
Title: Photovoltaic Systems and Housing Prices: The Relevance of View
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom20 October, 12:15-13:15
Denis Mokanov, NHH
Title: Earnings Expectations and Asset Prices
Location: Aud. B / Zoom02 November, 12:15-13:15
Tom Meling, Ohio State University
Title: Individual Crypto Investors
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom10 November, 12:15-13:15
Samuel Piotrowski, NHH
Title: Risk, Reward, and Ratings: How Firms Use Tax Avoidance to Sustain Inflated Credit Ratings
Location: Aud. K / Zoom30 November, 12:15-13:15
Carsten Bienz, NHH
Title: The Benefits and Costs of Cornerstone Investors
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom -
2022
2022
29 March, 12:00 - 13:00
Astrid Kunze, NHH
Title: Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom19 April, 11:30 - 12:30
Ole-Andreas Næss, SNF
Title: Investor Beliefs about a Mispriced Stock
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom07 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Karin Thorburn and Carsten Bienz, NHH
Title: The Defeasance of Control Rights
Location: Karl Borch / Zoom06 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 firms04 May, 11:00 - 12:00
Walt Pohl, NHH
Title: Strategic Limits of Option Pricing18 May, 11:00 - 12:00
Roberto Ricco', NHH
Title: Frequent Batch Auctions vs. Continuous trading: Evidence from Taiwan01 June, 11:00 - 12:00
Andre Lot, NHH
Title: Liquidity concerns and tax-incentivized retirement savings17 June, 13:00 - 14:00
Stig Roar Haukø Lundeby, NHH
Title: The Impact of Policy on the Risk-Return Relationship18 June, 12:00 - 13:00
Michael Axenrod, NHH
Title: Do corporate pension decisions impact product market outcomes? Evidence from DB plan freezes30 June, 12:00 - 13:00
Jing Lan, NHH
Title: How does entrepreneur divorce affect the firm? Evidence from Norway27 September, 11:00 - 12:00
Zhou Lu, NHH
Title: Chinese Stock Market Pricing Cap and Its Impact
Location: Auditorium O / Teams05 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Max Rohrer, NHH
Title: The effect of ESG incident location on the market's response
Location: LAB2 / Teams07 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Espen Eckbo, NHH
Title: Competition shocks, rival reactions, and return comovement
Location: LAB1 / Teams14 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Nataliya Gerasimova, NHH
Title: How Assets under Advisement move Assets under Management
Location: Karl Borch / Teams18 October, 12:00 - 13:00
Yue Xue, Aarhus University
Title: Mutual Fund Managers’ Learning From Senior Colleagues - Capital Raising Ability versus Active Investment Skill02 November, 12:00 - 13:00
Eric De Bodt, NHH - Adjunct Professor
Title: Are investor reactions shaping SEC filings writing?
ZOOM30 November, 12:00 - 13:00
Simone Traini, NHH Accounting
Title: Blockchain Adoption and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price
Location: Karl Borch / ZOOM03 December, 13:00 - 14:00
Michael Axenrod, NHH
Title: Do corporate pension decisions affect rivals? Evidence from DB plan freezes07 December, 12:00 - 13:00
Jing Lan, NHH
Title: Does entrepreneur divorce affect the firm? Evidence from Norway09 December, 12:00 - 13:00
Zhou Lu, NHH
Title: Market smart: How firms respond to IPO pricing cap in China -
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 LOUNGE20 March, 12:00 - 13:15 - CANCELLED
Professor Thorsten Hens, University of Zurich
Title: TBA
FIN FACULTY LOUNGE30 March, 12:00 - 13:00 - CANCELLED
PhD Andre Lot, NHH
Title: TBA
FIN FACULTY LOUNGE14 May, 12:00 - 13:00
Assistant Professor Artashes Karapetyan, ESSEC Business School
Title: Macroprudential Regulation: Mortgages versus Total Credit
ZOOM20 May, 12:00 - 13:00
Associate Professor Konrad Raff, NHH
Title: Board Diversity as a Commitment to Monitor
ZOOM25 May, 12:00 - 13:00
PhD Markus Lithell, NHH
Title: The merger-adjusted US listing gap
ZOOM17 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
ZOOM25 November, 12:00 - 13:00
PhD Andre Lot, NHH
Title: Daily, heterogenous, unambiguous mutual fund flows and their performance sensitivity
ZOOM30 November, 12:15 - 13:15
PhD Damiano Maggi, NHH
Title: Corporate combinations and industry announcement returns
ZOOMSwedish House of Finance
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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
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2018
2018
06.06, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEKyeong Hun Lee, NHH
"Local Labor Market and Corporate Policies"
07.06, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGELin William Cong, Chicago Booth
"Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation"
13.06, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEGiorgo Sertsios, Universidad de Los Andes
"Going Public in Business Groups"
24.09, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGECarten 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 LOUNGEStig Roar Haukø Lundeby, NHH
“Conditional dynamics and the multi-horizon risk-return trade-off”
15.11, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEXiaoyu Zhang, NHH
"Going Public and Bank Monitoring: Evidence from Syndicated Loans"
22.11, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEJose 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 LOUNGEZhou Lu, NHH
“Product Market Threats and Bank Lines of Credit in Corporate Liquidity”
04.12, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEDarya 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 LOUNGENataliya Gerasimova, NHH
"Small Businesses and Government Awards: Gender Gap"
10.12, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEWalter Pohl, NHH
"Can the Machine Pick Stock Market Winners?"
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2017
2017
27.02, 12:00 - 13:00
FACULTY LOUNGETom Grimstvedt Meling, University of Bergen
09.03, 15:00 - 16:00
FACULTY LOUNGERaffaele Giuliana, NHH
How did the bail-in affect European banks' bonds?
06.04, 12:00 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEEvelina Gavrilova and Aija Polakova, NHH
As it is in (Tax) Haven: Market Attitudes towards Secrecy
Shopping13.06, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEXunhua Su (joint with Xiaoyu Zhang), NHH
The Benefit of Going Public in Loan Markets and IPO Underpricing
14.06, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEB. Espen Eckbo, Tuck School of Business - Dartmouth, NHH
Corporate Rivalry and Stock return Comovement
20.06, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGETore Leite, NHH
Security Choice and Expected Announcement Returns
27.06, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEDarya 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 LOUNGEKonrad Raff, NHH
Busy Directors: Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies
27.09, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGERiccardo Calcagno, EM Lyon Business School
Takeover Duration and Negotiation Process
05.10, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEB. Espen Eckbo, Tuck School of Business - Dartmouth, NHH
The leverage-profitability correlation revisited
8.11, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEAndre Lot, NHH
Subjective Survival Probabilities and the Annuity Puzzle - an Experimental Investigation
16.11, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEWei Shi, NHH
Follow the Leader: The Effect of Political Turnover on the Use of Proceeds from IPO
20.11, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEMichael Kisser, NHH
Finding market timing patterns when they are unlikely to exist
30.11, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEEmma Xu, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Texas
Product Durability and Corporate Policies
05.12, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEGiovanni Bruno, NHH
Cash-flow Non-linearities and the Risk-reward Trade-off
14.12, 12:15 - 13:15
FACULTY LOUNGETommy Stamland and Jørgen Haug, NHH
Valuation of Derivatives with Private Information
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2016
2016
30.03, 12:00-13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEFlorian 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 LOUNGEChunbo 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 LOUNGEAvanidhar Subrahmanyam, UCLA
"When Information is Assymetric and Stock Ownership is a Consumption Good"30.06, 12:00-13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEChristoph Herpfer, Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL
"Officers, Soft Information and Relationship Lending"30.08, 12:15-1300
FACULTY LOUNGEPatrick Augustin, McGill University
"Multi-Market Trading and Cross-Asset Integration"05.09, 12:00-13:00
FACULTY LOUNGEGiovanni Bruno, Department of Financ (NHH)
PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
"Call Optimum Prices and Risk in General Equilibrium"06.09, 10:15-11:15
FACULTY LOUNGENegar Ghanbari, Department of Finance (NHH)
PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
"Callable Bonds and Liquidity Effects"07.09, 10:15-11:15
FACULTY LOUNGEXiaoyu 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 LOUNGEStig Roar Lundeby, Department of Finance (NHH)
PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
"Consumption - Based Asset Pricing"09.09, 12.15-13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEDebashis 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 LOUNGELoreta Rapushi, Department of Finance (NHH)
PhD Summer Paper Presentation:
"Leverage-decreasing Recaps and Firm Value"12.10, 12:15-13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEYun Tang, Department of Finance (NHH)
"Reward-timing Uncertainty, Languages and R&D Investment"16.11, 12:15-13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEXunhua Su, Department of Finance (NHH)
“Do Firms Respond to Industry Rising Stars?”30.11, 12:15-13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEDarya Yuferova, Department of Finance (NHH)
"Do High Frequency Traders Make Markets? A Study of Paris Euronext"14.12, 12:15-13:15
FACULTY LOUNGEMaximilian Rohrer, Department of Finance (NHH)
"Challenging management in public, an empirical study of a new governance channel"
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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"
