Research
Department of Finance
The Department of Finance has a strong international orientation, with faculty from leading schools in finance and economics. Our research is published in top journals and covers all areas of finance.
The research projects with external funding at the Department of Finance are registered in the national database Cristin.
Projects
- Owner Illiquidity and Firm Behavior: Financial and Real Effects of the Personal Wealth Tax on Private Firms (2012 - 2025)
- Capital structure and entrepreneurial wealth (2016 - 2020)
- The Impact of Managerial Biases on Firm Performance and Policies (2016 - 2019)
- Corporate governance before there was corporate law (2006 - 2019)
- Acquirer Termination Fee and Stock Market Feedback (2014 - 2018)
- Do foreign exchange markets serve their customers well? (2014 - 2017)
- FX Market Microstructure: Liquidity and information in the era of electronic trading (2014 - 2017)
- Who initiates corporate takeovers? (2011 - 2017)
- The cost of capital for unlisted firms (2013 - 2016)
- Are knowledge intensive firms more vulnerable to financial crisis? Evidence from Norway (2012 - 2016)
- Ownership, taxes, and dividends (2011 - 2016)
- Why do firms pay dividends? (2010 - 2016)
- What determines dividend payout? (2009 - 2016)
- Why do firms pay dividends? The secrets of private firms (2009 - 2016)
- Short term capital (2008 - 2016)
- Going Public or Staying Private (2006 - 2016)
- Quantitative Equilibrium Impacts of Short - Sale and Leverage Constraints (2014 - 2015)
- Dividend smoothing, ownership structure, and bank relations: Evidence from nonlisted Norwegian firms (2009 - 2015)
- Capital and ownership structure and the survival of new firms (2014)
- The Liquidity of the Oslo Stock Exchange (2008)