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Camelia M. Kuhnen

Publications and working papers

      Empirical and Behavioral Corporate Finance:

      Executive pay, hidden compensation and managerial entrenchment (with Jeffrey Zwiebel). Working paper, Kellogg School of Management, March 2007.

      Social networks, corporate governance and contracting in the mutual fund industry. Working paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business, March 2007.

      Dynamic contracting in the mutual fund industry. Working paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business, June 2004.

 

      Experimental Finance and Neuroeconomics:

The impact of affect on beliefs, preferences and financial decisions (with Brian Knutson). Working paper, Kellogg School of Management, November 2007

      The neural basis of financial risk taking (with Brian Knutson). Neuron, 47:763-770, September 2005

      Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking (with Brian Knutson, G. Elliott Wimmer and Piotr Winkielman). NeuroReport, 19 (5): 509-513, March 2008.

     

Work in progress

Escalation of commitment and corporate disinvestment decisions (with Ulrike Malmendier). Working paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business, May 2006

The Impact of Incidental Emotions on Experimental Stock Market Prices (with Antonio Rangel and Colin Camerer). Working paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business, December 2004

Interdisciplinary research activities

      Neuroeconomics / neurofinance, social and affective neuroscience reading group at Northwestern University

Press

      Corporate Finance:

      November 2007: Conference Board Review article about executive compensation
      September 2005: Financial Times comment letter about the fiduciary duty of mutual fund directors - in response to this FT article.
      June 2004: USA Today article on the potential effects of the change in the SEC regulation of the disclosure requirements for investment advisory contracts.

      Neurofinance:

      April 2008: Science Daily, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg articles referring to the paper “Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking”; Associated Press article commenting on the correlation between hormones and financial decisions.
      April 2006: New York Times article on neuroeconomics and the paper "The neural basis of financial risk taking"
      September 2005: Chicago Tribune, Stanford Report, NY Daily News , International Herald Tribune, Forbes, Globe and Mail - reactions to the paper "The neural basis of financial risk taking"

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