Finance
Finance is the field within economics that studies how financial frictions affect economic outcomes. In particular, it aims to understand how markets, corporations, and intermediaries behave as a result of these frictions. Researchers in the Finance field at Tinbergen Institute conduct both empirical and theoretical research in all major fields of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, financial institutions, behavioral finance, financial econometrics, and market microstructure.
Finance
Finance is the field within economics that studies how financial frictions affect economic outcomes. In particular, it aims to understand how markets, corporations, and intermediaries behave as a result of these frictions. Researchers in the Finance field at Tinbergen Institute conduct both empirical and theoretical research in all major fields of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, financial institutions, behavioral finance, financial econometrics, and market microstructure.
Researchers in this field
Fellows and Faculty
Fellows and Faculty
PhD Students
PhD Students
Key Publications
Henkel, L. and Pugnaghi-Zimpelmann, C. (2026). Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions Review of Financial Studies.
Johannes, M., Seeger, NormanJ. and Stroud, JonathanR. (2026). Time-varying macroeconomic announcement risk Journal of Econometrics, 254:1--23.
Capera Romero, L. and Opschoor, A. (2026). Revisiting EWMA in High‐Frequency‐Based Portfolio Optimization: A Comparative Assessment Journal of Applied Econometrics, 41(5):523--538.
Klein Teeselink, B., van Dolder, D., van den Assem, MartijnJ. and Dana, JasonD. (2026). High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction Games and Economic Behavior, 157:418--439.
Terovitis, S. and Vladimirov, V. (2026). How Financial Markets Create Superstars Review of Financial Studies.
Discussion Papers
26-069/IV - Blockchains and Strategic Secondary Censorship
Date: September 10, 2026
26-048/IV - Investment Targets as Reference Points
Date: August 02, 2026
26-039/IV - Remote Work and the Corporate Hierarchy
Date: June 24, 2026
26-034/IV - Trust in flood protection: Spillovers from prior experience with non-flood hazards
Date: June 11, 2026
26-029/IV - Floods and homeowners' financial resilience: Survey-based evidence from the Netherlands
Date: June 05, 2026
Upcoming events
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:45 - 13:00
Organization of Human Capital in Corporate Lending
Vrinda Mittal (University of North Carolina, United States)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 11:45 - 13:00
Title to be announced
Kris Jacobs (University of Houston, United States)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 12:45 - 14:00
Title to be announced
Hyeyoon Jung (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, United States)
- TI Finance Research Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:50 - 17:35
Noncompete Agreements and the Allocation of Human Capital Within...
Wei Hou
- PhD Seminars
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:45 - 13:00
Title to be announced
Jean Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris, France)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
Academic Distinctions
July 14, 2026
Matthijs Korevaar awarded with NWO SSH XS grant
Matthijs Korevaar
July 09, 2026
Luca Henkel appointed as Senior Fellow at the Microsoft AI Economy...
Luca Henkel
July 09, 2026
Norman Seeger appointed as University Chair Professor in Quantitative...
Norman Seeger