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    Interview with Professor Espen B. Eckbo

    The Voice of Corporate Governance podcast interview with Professor B. Espen Eckbo. "Investors and Norway’s Board Gender-Quota Law with Professor B. Espen Eckbo"

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    The Leverage-Profitability Puzzle Resurrected

    New article! Congratulations to B. Espen Eckbo and Michael Kisser on their new article in the Review of Finance. “The Leverage-Profitability Puzzle Resurrected”

  3. Corporate Governance: 5 Myths, 5 Realities

    What is the true role of corporate stakeholders? Tuck finance professor B. Espen Eckbo debunks five myths about the U.S. corporate governance system.

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    Board gender-balancing and firm value

    New article! Congratulations to Espen Eckbo and Karin Thorburn on their new article in Management Science, “Board gender-balancing and firm value"

  5. "Styret må hindre veddemål"

    Read new chronicle by Karin S. Thorburn and B. Espen Eckbo. In Norwegian.

  6. Research at CCF

    2022 Garcia, Diego, Xiaowen Hu and Maximilian Rohrer, 2022: "The Colour of Finance Words". Journal of Financial Economics, 147 (3), 525-549 2021 Eckbo, B. Espen, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn, 2021, “Valuation effects of Norway’s board gender-quota law revisited,” Management Science, forthcoming. Eckbo, B. Espen, Michael Kisser, 2021: "The Leverage-Profitability Puzzle Resurrected", Review of Finance, forthcoming. De Bodt, Eric, Muhammad Farooq Ahmad, Jarrad Harford, 2021:"International Trade and the Propagation of  Merger Waves". Review of Financial Economics, forthcoming. Eckbo, B. Espen, Michael Kisser, 2021:  "Tradeoff theory and leverage dynamics of high-frequency debt issuers". Review of Finance, forthcoming. 2020 Eckbo, B. Espen, Andrey Malenko, Karin S. Thorburn, 2020: "Strategic Decisions in Takeover Auctions". Annual Review of Financial Economics, 12, 237-276 Chi, Daniel, Xunhua Su, Yun Tang, Bin Xu, 2020:  "Is Language an Economic Institution? Evidence from R&D." Forthcoming,  Journal of Corporate Finance, 62, 101-578 2018 Lee, Kyeong Hun, 2018. Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions amid Political Uncertainty: A Bargaining Perspective. Strategic Management Journal, 39 (2),  2992-3005 Lee, Kyeong Hun, David C. Mauer and Qianying(Emma) Xu, 2018. Human Capital Relatedness and Mergers and Acquisitions. Journal of Financial Economics, 129 (1), 111-135 Raff, Konrad and Linus Siming, 2018. Knighthoods, Damehoods, and CEO Behaviour. Journal of Corporate Finance, 59 (2), 302-319 Eckbo, B. Espen, Tanakorn Makaew, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2018. Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic? Journal of Financial Economics, 128 (3), 443-465 2017 Chi, Daniel and Xunhua Su, 2017. The dynamics of performance volatility and firm valuation. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52 (2), 111-142 2016  Bakke, Einar, Tore Leite and Karin S. Thorburn, 2016. Partial Adjustment to Public Information in the Pricing of IPOs. Journal of Financial Intermediation, 32 (2), 1339-1351 Su, Xunhua, Li Zhang, 2016. A Re-examination of Credit Rationing in the Stiglitz and Weiss Model. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 49 (2), 1059-1072 Koskinen, Yrjo and Joril Maeland, 2016. Innovation, Competition and Investment Timing. Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 5 (2), 166-199 Eckbo, B. Espen, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang, 2016. How costly is corporate bankruptcy for the CEO? Journal of Financial Economics, 121 (1), 210-229 Fahlenbrach, Rudiger and Cornelius Schmidt, 2016. Do exogeneous changes in passive institutional ownership affect corporate governance and firm value? Journal of Financial Economics, 124 (2), 285-306

  7. A "job interview" with a hedge fund manager

    A mock "job interview" with a hedge fund manager by Professor B. Espen Eckbo published in Norwegian business newspaper "Dagens Næringsliv" following NBIM's hiring of Nicolai Tangen as new CEO.

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    Tradeoff theory and leverage dynamics of high-frequency debt issuers

    New article! Congratulations to B. Espen Eckbo and Michael Kisser on their new article in the Review of Finance. “Tradeoff theory and leverage dynamics of high-frequency debt issuers”

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    Reshaping Boardrooms: Research on Gender Quotas

    In 2005, Norway became the first country to mandate gender-balanced corporate boards. The quota reform was followed by criticism, but two studies by B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard, and Karin Thorburn challenged the prevailing narrative around the cost of the reform.

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    Can “Benefit corporations” have it both ways?

    Benefit Corporations shall invest in socially beneficial projects even if the shareholder return is low. A dead end or a solution to important societal challenges? asks Professor B. Espen Eckbo and PhD candidate Markus Lithell in an opinion piece first published in DN.

  13. Karin Thorburn ranked sixth in the world

    NHH Professor Karin S. Thorburn has been ranked sixth in the world among researchers with expertise in bankruptcy. `I was an early mover in investigating what happens to companies that are sold during bankruptcy´.

  14. Empirical Corporate Finance II

    FIN540 (4 Stp)

  15. Visitors

    The Department of Finance regularly invite top level international scholars to visit the department.

  16. Topics in Empirical Corporate Finance

    FIN521 (7.5 Stp)
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    Project funding

    Espen Eckbo and Markus Lithell have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council for their project on benefit corporations.

  20. Job Market Candidates 2024

    We proudly present our job market candidates available for employment.

  21. People at CCF

    Researchers at NHH's Centre for Corporate Finance.

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    Does Mandatory Board Gender Balancing Reduce Firm Value?

    Opinion piece in Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog by B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn.

  23. Markus Lithell defends his thesis September 20

    On Wednesday September 20, 2023, Markus Lithell will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

  24. Rohrer og Haaland

    These NHH researchers are paid publication bonuses

    14 employees at NHH are paid bonuses, after publication in leading international journals. A top publication results in a cash payment of NOK 120,000.

  25. The CEO and corporate bankruptcy

    The paper «How Costly is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?» has been published in Journal of Financial Economics.

  26. Twice in prestigious journal

    Assistant Professor Thomas de Haan at The Choice Lab has succeeded in getting two papers accepted by The Economic Journal. Both papers are forthcoming in the prestigious journal.

  27. Pioneers and Honorary Doctors

    Pioneers Many people have influenced the development of NHH over the years. Profiles of a few of these people indicate the calibre of people associated with the school since its earliest days, and the influence they have had beyond the bounds of NHH. The late Professors Karl H. Borch and Jan Mossin were among the founders of the economics of uncertainty and made important contributions to the theory of finance. Their seminal papers are appreciated worldwide and are still a source of inspiration for research at the department.

  28. Corporate Finance

    Lær å tenke finansøkonomisk om foretakets finansierings- og investeringsproblemer.

  29. Johan Mellberg

    Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance

    On Wednesday 24 June 2020 Johan Mellberg will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

  30. 26 October 2021 Damiano Maggi will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH. This dissertation investigates three main questions in empirical corporate finance. Specifically, the first two essays focus on mergers and acquisitions, while the third essay focus on market reaction to unexpected brand exposure.

    Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance

    On Tuesday 26 October 2021 Damiano Maggi will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.

  31. Past events

    Past conferences, seminars and other events hosted by the Department of Finance, its faculty and connected research centres.

  32. Impact cases

    studies by B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard, and

  33. M&A and Restructuring

    M&A and Restructuring is an intensive program that integrates case discussions with the latest research, while drawing on participants’ practical experience. It is offered jointly by NHH and the Ivy-League university Dartmouth College.

  34. PhD specialisation in Finance

  35. PhD specialisation in Business and Management Science

    Business and Management Science is the discipline of using analytical methods to help make better decisions.

  36. Seminar Series in Finance

    The Department of Finance hosts a weekly seminar series with leading international scholars.