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Home | Events Archive | Essays in Financial Economics
PhD Defense

Essays in Financial Economics


  • Series
  • Candidate
    Pascal Golec (University of Amsterdam)
  • Field
    Finance
  • Location
    Aula, University of Amsterdam,
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    September 18, 2019
    11:00 - 12:30

This dissertation contains three essays in financial economics. The first essay investigates why firms become less dynamic in the subsequent years after going public. The second essay is inspired by the financial crisis of 2008. It shows that there is not enough information production about the underlying risks of innovative financial products in the run-up to financial crises, leading to overinvestment. The third essay is a survey about the emerging literature on safe assets, which play a crucial role in shaping credit expansion and risk taking in the financial sector.

Pascal

Golec (1990) obtained a Bachelor in Economics and Business at the University of

Zurich. After completing an MPhil in Finance at the Tinbergen Institute in

2014, he continued to pursue a PhD at the University of Amsterdam.