NFF Seminar Series in Finance

The department of finance hosts a weekly seminar series with leading international scholars.

In the finance department’s weekly research seminar, internationally recognized scholars present their research.

The seminars are open to any interested faculty, students or the general public. The department is grateful for funding of the research seminar series by the Norwegian Society of Financial Analysts.

Department of Finance

Finance seminars fall 2018

07.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Mike Burkart, London School of Economics
14.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Gregory Nini, Drexel University
21.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ron Masulis, UNSW Business School
28.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	David Mauer, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
05.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Katharina Lewellen, Tuck School of Business
12.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Adam Reed, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
09.11, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. B	Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
23.11, 10:45 - 12:00 Aud. 24	Yongqiang Chu, University of South Carolina at Charlotte

Finance seminars spring 2018

09.03, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Richard Townsend, University of California San Diego Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women?
16.03, 12:15 - 13:30 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Nadya Malenko, Boston College, Carroll School of Management Deadlock on the Board
06.04, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Romeo Tedongap, ESSEC Business School Variance Premium, Downside Risk, and Expected Stock Returns
13.04, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Konstantin Milbradt, Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University A Theory of the Mortgage Rate Pass-Through
27.04, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business (Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits?
04.05, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. C	Jonathan Brogaard, Foster School of Business, University of Washington The Economic Impact of Index Investing
07.05, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	David Hirshleifer, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California Irvine Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
16.05, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Hendrik Bessembinder, Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Liquidity Provision Contracts and Market Quality: Evidence from the New York Stock Exchange
25.05, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Youchang Wu, University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business Mutual Funds Apart from the Crowd
01.06, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Patrick Verwijmeren, Erasmus School of Economics Is Gender in the Eye of the Beholder? Identifying Cultural Attitudes with Art Auction Prices
13.06, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Giorgo Sertsios, Universidad de los Andes Going Public in Business Groups
27.06, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. A	Phillip Stocken, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College A Model of Voluntary Managerial Disclosure

Finance seminars fall 2017

08.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ran Duchin, Foster School of Business, University of Washington “Dissecting Conglomerates”
15.09, 10:45 - 12.00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Gerard Hoberg, Marshall School of Business USC "Product Life Cycles in Corporate Finance"
29.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management "Dividend Dynamics, Learning, and Expected Stock Index Returns"
09.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Paul Schneider, USI and Swiss Finance Institute "An Anatomy of the Market Return"
13.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ryan Peters, Tulane University "Volatility and Venture Capital"
20.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Angelo Ranaldo, University of St.Gallen "OTC Premia"
27.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Marius Zoican, University Paris Dauphine "Smart Settlement"
3.11, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Tim Jenkinson, Said Business School, Oxford University “Best buys and own brands: investment platforms’ recommendations of mutual funds”

Finance seminars spring 2017

JOB MARKET TALKS WINTER 2017
12.01, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Suresh Sundaresan, Columbia Business School "An Explanation of Negative Swap Spreads: Demand for Duration from Underfunded Pension Plans"
10.03, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Thierry Foucault, HEC Paris Corporate Strategy, Conformism, and the Stock Market
17.03, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Bart Lambrecht, Cambridge Judge Business School The Dynamics of Investment, Payout and Debt
28.04, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Henri Servaes, London Business Scool A Matter of Trust? The Bond Market Benefits of Corporate Social Capital During the Financial Crisis
19.05, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Denis Gromb, HEC Paris The Paradox of Pledgeability
2.06, 14:00 - 15:15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Albert Menkveld, VU University Amsterdam A Network Map of Information Percolation
13.01, 10:45 - 12.00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Wenqian Huang, Tinbergen Institute/VU Amsterdam Central Counterparty Capitalization and Misaligned Incentives
17.01, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Nina Karnaukh, University of St. Gallen The Dollar Ahead of FOMC Target Rate Changes
19.01, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Marc Gabarro Bonet, Erasmus University Does a Larger Menu Increase Appetite? Collateral Eligibility and Bank Risk-Taking
23.01, 14:00 - 15:15 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Jean-David Sigaux, HEC Paris Trading Ahead of Treasury Auctions
25.01, 14:00 - 15:15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Nataliya Gerasimova, University of Lausanne House of Funds
30.01, 14:00 - 15:15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Vahid Saadi, Goethe University Frankfurt Mortgage Supply and the US Housing Boom: The Role of the Community Reinvestment Act
8.02, 14:00 - 15:15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Kyeong Hun (Kyle) Lee, Tulane University Human capital relatedness and M&A
13.02, 14:00 - 15:15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Valeri Sokolovski, Stockholm School of Economics Crowds, Crashes, and the Carry Trade

Finance seminars fall 2016

28.08, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Murillo Campello, Cornell University "Bankruptcy and the Cost of Organized Labor: Evidence from the Union Elections"
02.09, 10:45 - 12:00 LAB 1	Darius Palia, Rutgers Business School "Product Market Competition and CEO Pay Benchmarking"
23.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Bohui Zhang, University of New South Wales "Googling Investor Sentiment around the World"
26.09, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Samuli Knuepfer, BI Norwegian Business School "Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay"
07.10, 12:15 - 13:30 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management "The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: Reconciling Behavior and Rationality via Evolution and Biology"
14.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Christian Wagner, Copenhagen Business School What is the expected Return on a Stock?
17.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Oguzhan Karakas, Boston College Earnings and the Value of Voting Rights
21.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University Preventing Controversial Catastrophes
28.10, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Adrien Matray, Princeton University Can Innovation Help U.S. Manufacturing Firms Escape Import Competition from China?
4.11, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Florian Peters, University of Amsterdam Optimism Propagation
25.11, 10:45 - 12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Renee Adams, University of New South Wales Women in Finance

Finance seminars spring 2016

18.01, 12:15-13:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Sturla Lyngnes Fesme, The University of Melbourne "The vicar, the widow, or the gentleman: who gets allocated IPO shares?"
19.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Konstantinos E. Zachariadis, London School of Economics "Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims"
25.01, 12:15-13:45 AUD. 24	Ricardo Lopez Aliouckin, Stockholm School of Economics "Option-implied idiosyncratic and systematic risk in the cross-section of expected stock returns"
27.01, 12:15-13:45 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Marlene Haas, Vienna Graduate School of Business "Equity Short Sales and Options: Complements or Substitutes?"
28.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. JAN MOSSIN	Xintong Zhan, Chinese University of Hong Kong "Peer Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility"
29.01, 12:15-13:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Darya Yuferova, Rotterdam School of Management "Intraday Return Predictability, Informed Limit Orders, and Algorithmic Trading"
10.02, 12:15-13:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Deniz Okat, Aalto University "Too Big To Rush"
16.02, 12:15-13:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Sahil Raina, University of Michigan "VC financing and the entrepreneurship gender gap"
18.03, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, London Business School "Asset Prices and Portfolio Choice with Learning from Experience"
15.04, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Patrick Verwijmeren, Erasmus University "The Buyers' Perspective on Security Design: Hedge Funds and Convertible Bond Call Provisions"
29.04, 12:45-14:00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics "Since you are so rich, you must be really smart: Talent and the Finance Wage Premium"
20.05, 14:15-15:30 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Henrik Cronqvist, University of Miami "In the Red: The effects of Color on Investment Behavior"
27.05, 10:45-12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Micah S Officer, Loyola Marymount University "The effect of cultural similarity on mergers and acquisitions"
03.06, 10:45-12:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ing-Haw Cheng, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College "Do Managers do Good with Other People's Money?"

Finance seminars fall 2015

28.08, 10.45-12.00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ron Masulis, UNSW "Independent Director Reputation Incentives: CEO Compensation Contracts and Financial Accounting Reliability"
02.09, 12.15-13.30 AUD. KARL BORCH	Lasse Heje Pederson, Copenhagen Business School "Quality Minus Junk"
04.09, 12.45-14.00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Alexander Ljungqqvist, NYU "State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise"
02.10, 12.45-14.00 AUD KARL BORCH	Doron Levis, Wharton "Corporate Control Activism"
16.10, 12.45-14.00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Han Xia, University of Texas at Dallas "Buying on certification: Governmant procurement and credit ratings"
23.10, 12.45-14.00 AUD.. KARL BORCH	Johan Walden, Berkeley "Securitization Networks and Endogenous Financial Norms in US Mortgage Markets"
27.11, 12.45-14.00 AUD. KARL BORCH	David Lando, CBS "Safe-Haven CDS-Premia"
14.12, 10.45-11.45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University "The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions"
14.12, 12.45-13.45 AUD. KARL BORCH	David Robinson, Duke University "By any other name? The role of VC in the going picks process in China"

Finance seminars spring 2015

14.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Mamdouh Medhat, Copenhagen Business School "Liquidity Risk and Distressed Equity"
15.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Glenn Schepens, Ghent University and National Bank of Belgium "Taxes and Bank Capital Structure"
16.01, 12:45-14:00 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Nils Friewald, Vienna Univesity of Economics and Business "Dealer Inventory and the Cross-Section of Corporate Bond Returns"
20.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Kevin Tseng, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University "Knowledge Network and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns"
22.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. 11	Boris Radnaev, London Business School "Learning and Leverage Dynamics in General Equilibrium"
23.01, 12:15-13:45 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Dong Yan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Do Private Firms Learn from the Stock Market?"
27.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Paolo Morales Acevedo, Tilburg University and the European Banking Center "Strategic Choic of Delinquencies under Firm Liquidity Constraints"
28.01, 10:15-11:45 AUD. KARL BORCH	Adem Almaz, London Business School "A Dynamic Model of Short Interest"
04.03, 12:15-13:45 AUD. 11	Xunhua Su, Norwegian University of Science and Technology "The Dynamics of Performance Volatility and Firm Valuation"
13.03, 12:45-14:15 AUD. TERJE HANSEN	Andrey Malenko, MIT Sloan School of Business "Timing Decisions in Organizations: Communication and Authority in a Dynamic Environment"
10.04, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Laurent Bach, Stockholm School of Economics "Why do shareholder votes matter?"
14.04, 12:45-14.15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Kai Li, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia "Technological Competition and Strategic Alliances"
17.04, 12:45-13:15 AUD. KARL BORCH	Toni Whited, Simon Business School, University of Rochester "Collateral, Taxes and Leverage"
24.04, 08:45-10:00 AUD. AGNAR SANDMO	Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Swiss Finance Institute "Why Do Banks Practice Regulatory Arbitrage? Evidence from Usage og Trust Preferred Securities"
29.05, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia Business School "Evaluating the Impact of the Boss: Evidence from CEO Hospitalization Events

Finance seminars fall 2014

05.09, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Eliezer Fich, LeBow College of Business "Analyst coverage and acquisition returns: Evidence from natural experiments"
09.09, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Søren Hvidkjær, Copenhagen Business School "Does the value factor beta predict the value premium?"
12.09, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Ljubica Djordjevic, Tilburg University "Determinants of Household Bank Switching"
19.09, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Jonathan Lewellen, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth "The behaviour of aggregate corporate investment"
26.09, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Oguzhan Ozbas, University of Southern California "Managerial Accommodation, Proxy Access, and the Cost of Shareholder Empowerment"
03.10, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Christopher Polk, London School of Economics "The Booms and Busts of Beta Arbitrage"
17.10, 12:45-14:00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Cláudia Custódio, W. P. Carey School of Business "Do General Managerial Skills Spur Innovation?"
24.10, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	L'uboš Pástor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business "Do funds make more when they trade more?"
31.10, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Thorsten Beck, Tilburg University "Lending Concentration, Bank Performance and Systemic Risk: Exploring Cross-Country Variation"
14.11, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Per Östberg, University of Zürich "Money and Correlations"
14.11, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Larissa Shäfer, Tilburg University "Relationship Lending and Loan Performance"
05.12, 12:45-14:00 AUD. B	Hao Liang, Tilburg University "Concentrated Wealth and Stakeholder Value"
08.12, 10:15-11:45 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Markus Broman, Schulich School of Business "Liquidity Clienteles, Correlated Demand and Excess Comovement of ETF Returns"
12.12, 12:45-14:00 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Lars A. Lochstoer, Columbia Business School "Asset Pricing when 'This Time is Different'"

Finance seminars spring 2014

13.01, 12:45-14:00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Katarina Kvasnakova, Vienne Graduate School of Finance "Is Imperfection Better? Evidence from Predicting Stock and Bond Returns"
	Full listing of seminars to come here.

Finance seminars fall 2013

12.09, 10:45-12:00 AUD. AGNAR SANDMO	Finn Kydland, University of California "Monetary Policy. the Tax Code, and the Real Effects of Energy Shocks"
13.09, 12:45-14:00 AUD. B	Michael Ewens, Carnegie Mellon University "Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of its Partners?"
20.09, 12.45-14.00 AUD. A	Jarrad Harford, University of Washington "Mergers that Matter: The Value Impact of Economic Links"
27.09, 12.45-14.00 TERJE HANSEN	Elroy Dimson, London Business School "The Price of Wine"
03.10, 14.15-15.30 AUD. D	Yrjo Koskinen, Boston University "Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence"
04.10, 14.15-15.30 AUD. FINN KYDLAND	Rajnish Mehra, Arizona State University "Macroeconomic Foundations of Financial Predictability"
11.10, 12.45-14.00 AUD. KARL BORCH	Harjoat Bhamra, University of British Columbia "Stochastic Operating Risk and Real Options: Implications for Stock Returns

Finance seminars spring 2013

14.01, 12:15-13:30 AUD. 24	Martijn Boons, University of Tilburg "State Variable Hedging and Individual Stocks: New evidence for the ICAPM"
18.01,12.15-13.30 AUD. 24	Julien Cujean, Swiss Finance Institute "The Social Dynamics of Performance
21.01, 12.15-13.30 AUD. 24	David Schumacher, INSEAD "The Role of Domestic Industries in Foreign Policy Decisions
23.01, 12.15-13.30 AUD. KARL BORCH	Cornelius Schmidt, University of Lausanne "Shareholder Monitoring Incentives and Corporate Policies"
28.01, 12.15-13.30 AUD. 24	Haitao Mo, University of Southern California "Implied Economic Risk Premiums"
06.02, 12.25-13.30 AUD. 24	Oliver Randall, New York University "Pricing and Liquidity in the US Corporate Market"
11.02, 12.15-13.30 AUD. 24	Onur Tosun, University of Maryland "The Effect of the CEO's Option Compensation on the Firm's Capital Structure: A Natural Experiment"
18.02, 12.15-13.30 AUD. 24	Tong Wang, University of Southern California "The Destabilizing Effects of Option Hedging and the Weekly Reversal Anomaly"
22.02, 14.15-15.30 AUD. 24	Dr. Peter Kondor, Central European University "Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the Counter Markets"
01.03, 14.15-15.30 AUD. KARL BORCH	Dr Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago "Asset Pricing in the Frequency Domain: Theory and Empirics"
05.03, 12.15-13.30 AUD. KARL BORCH	Dr. Mustafa Caglayan, Ozyegin University "Emerging Betas and the Cross Section of Hedge Fund Return"
08.03, 14.15-15.30 AUD. KARL BORCH	Dr. Andrew Hertzberg, Columbia University "Heterogeneous Time Preferences within the Household"
22.03,14.15-15.30 AUD. KARL BORCH	Dr. Peter Feldhutter, London Business School "New Evidence on the Credit Spread Puzzle"