Dissertations
2020
February 5, 2020 @ SHoF
Tolga Demir defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Corporate Finance"
Opponent: Professor David Robinson, Duke University
2018
December 11, 2018 @ SHoF
Tommy von Brömsen defended his doctoral thesis " Essays in International Risk Sharing: Currency Strategies and Credit Cycles
Opponent Professor Charlotte Christiansen, Aarhus University
December 7, 2018 @ SHoF
Vasilis Dedes defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Monetary Policy and Inflation markets"
Opponent Professor Peter Schotman, Maastricht University
November 9th, 2018 at SHoF
Qing Xia defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Financial Economics"
Opponent Professor Laura Bottazzi, Bologna University
October 24th, 2018 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Viktor Thell defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance - Real Effects on Corporate Debt
Opponent Associate professor Gustav Martinsson, KTH
October 4th, 2018 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Mats Levander defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Household and Corporate Finance
Opponent Ralf R. Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank
September 21st, 2018 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Markus Ibert defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Asset Management"
Opponent Professor Henri Servaes, London Business School
June 4th, 2018 at SHoF, Phd Dissertation
Erik Sverdrup defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Financial Economics"
Opponent Professor ILan Cooper, BI Norwegian Business School
2017
June 13, 2017 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Valeri Sokolovski defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Currency Risk and Financial Frictions". Opponent Matti Souminen, Aalto University
May 12, 2017 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Fatemeh Hosseini defended her doctoral thesis "Essays in Entrepreneurial and Household Finance". Opponent: Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD
April 28, 2017 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Jieying Li defended her doctoral thesis "Essays in Empirical Finance". Opponent: Associate Professor Marco Da Rin, Tilburg University
February 16, 2017 at SHoF, Lic Seminar
Timotheos Mavropoulos defended his Licentiate thesis "Essays in Real Estate Finance". Opponent: Professor Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University
2016
September 23, 2016 at SHoF, PhD dissertation
Ricardo Lopez Aliouchkin defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Empirical Finance". Opponent: Professor Robert Dittmar, University of Michigan
September 22, 2016 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Egle Karmaziene defended her doctoral thesis "Essays in Empirical Finance". Opponent Professor Alberto Manconi, Bocconi University
September 20, 2016 at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Thomas Thörnqvist, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Household Finance" Opponent: Professor Laurent Calvet, HEC Paris
June 9, 2016, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Mahdi Heidari, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Financial Market Anomalies and Investment Strategies"
Opponent: Professor Hossein Asgharian, Lund University
2015
December 14, at SHoF, Lic Seminar
Qing Xia, SSE, will defended his Licentiate thesis "Creditor Rights and Innovation: Evidence from China"
Opponent: Gustav Martinsson, KTH
October 29, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Mariana Khapko, SSE, defended her doctoral thesis "Essays in Financial Economics"
Opponent: Professor Fabio Trojani, University of Lugano
October 22, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Nikita Koptyug, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Consumers, Risk and Rationality"
Opponent: Professor Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University
May 22, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Kristoffer Milonas, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis“Essays in Empirical Finance”
Opponent: Professor Vasso Ioannidou, University of Lancaster
Fall 2014
December 5, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Jan Schnitzler, SSE defended his doctoral thesis "Empirical Essays in Finance"
Opponent; Professor Henrik Cronqvist, CEIBS
October 3, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Markus Hartwig, SSE defended his doctoral thesis "Interest alignment, delegation of authority and economic rent A collection of empirical papers"
Opponent; Associate Professor of Finance José Liberti, DePaul University
September 11, at SHoF, Lic Seminar
Alberto Crosta, SSE, defended his Licentiate thesis "The Effects of Credit Rating and Watchlist Announcements on the U.S Corporate Bond Market"
Opponent; Professor Hans Byström, Lund University
September 5, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Rafael de Rezende, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis; "Essays on Macro-Financial Linkages"
Opponent; Professor Refet Gürkaynak, Bilkent University
September 4, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Àdám Faragó, SSE, defended his doctoral Thesis; "Essays on Disappointment Aversion in Portfolio Choice and Asset Pricing"
Opponent; Professor Joost Driessen, Tilburg University
Spring 2014
June 13, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Johannes Breckenfelder, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis: "Empirical Essays in Financial Economics"
Opponent: Professor Albert J. Menkveld, VU University Amsterdam
Examiner: Professor Magnus Dahlquist, SSE
March 28, at SHoF, PhD Dissertaion
Andreas Nilsson, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Financing of Nonprofits and Social Enterprises"
Opponent: professor Augustin Landier, Tolouse School of Economics
Examiner: Professor Peter Englund, SSE
Fall 2013
November 1, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Kristoffer Lindensjö, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Financial Mathematics"
September 6, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Patrick Augustin, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis " Essays on Sovereign Credit Risk and Credit Default Swap Spreads"
Opponent: Professor David Lando, Copenhagen Business School
Examiner: Professor Tomas Björk, SSE
Spring 2013
June 7, at SHoF, PhD Dissertation
Hamid Boustanifar SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance". Patrick Augustin, SSE, defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on Sovereign Credit Risk and Credit Default Swap Spreads"
Opponent: Professor Andrew Ellul, Indiana University
Chair; Professor Mike Burkart, SSE
Spring 2012
May 16, at 10.15 in room 542, Lic Seminar
Anna Lindahl, SSE, presents her lic. paper consisting of two essays " Foreign Exchange Market Dynamics" and "Herding the Scapegoats: Foreign Exchange Order Flow, Unstable Effect of Macroeconomic Fundamentals, and the Learning of Scapegoats"
Opponent: Professor Michael J Moore, Queen's University of Belfast
Chairperson: Professor Magnus Dahlquist, SSE
Fall 2011
November 18, at 13.00 in room 536, PhD Dissertation
Linus Kaisajuntti, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis Multidimensional Markhov-Functional and Stochastic Volatility Interest Rate Modelling
Opponent: Professor Antoon Pelsser, Maastricht University
Examiner: Professor, Peter Englund, SSE
Spring 2011
June 13, PhD Dissertation
Joakim Bång, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
Opponent: Professor David Yermack, NYU
Examiner: Professor Rikard Friberg, SSE
Fall 2010
August 31, at 11.15 in Room 550, Lic Seminar
Mustafa Yildirim, SSE, presents his lic paper Financial and Internal Organizations of Firms as Strategic Tools in Product Market Competition
Discussant: Konrad Raff, Institute for Financial Research
Spring 2010
May 10, at 13.30 in Room 550, PhD Dissertation
Reimo Juks, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis Corporate Governance and the Firm's Behaviour Towards Stakeholders
Opponent: Associate Professor Morten Sorensen, Columbia Business School
Examiner: Professor Mariassunta Giannetti, SSE
May 24, at 13.15 in Room 750, PhD Dissertation
Linus Siming, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis Private Equity and Advisors in Mergers and Acquisitions
Opponent: Associate Professor Xiaoyun Yu, Indiana University
Examiner: Professor Clas Bergström, SSE
June 3, at 10.15 in Room KAW, PhD Dissertation
Daniel Sunesson, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis School Networks and Active Investors
Opponent: Professor Renee Adams, The University of Queensland
Examiner: Professor Per Stömberg, SSE
Fall 2009
November 4, PhD Dissertation
Thomas Jansson, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis Essays on Household Portfolio Choice
Opponent: Professor Todd Sinai, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Examinator: Professor Clas Bergström, SSE
September 4, PhD Dissertation
Henrik Hasseltoft, SSE, defends his doctoral thesis The Term Structure of Interest Rates and Long-Run Risks
Opponent: Professor Ravi Bansal, Duke Universtiy
Examinator: Professor Peter Englund, SSE
For further information about the dissertations, please contact: Jenny Wahlberg Andersson