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Camelia M. Kuhnen

Publications and working papers

Empirical and Behavioral Corporate Finance:

Business networks, corporate governance and contracting in the mutual fund industry. Journal of Finance, 64(5): 2185-2220, October 2009

Executive pay, hidden compensation and managerial entrenchment (with Jeffrey Zwiebel). Working paper, March 2009

CEO turnover in a competitive assignment framework (with Andrea Eisfeldt). Working paper, August 2009

Is executive compensation shaped by public attitudes? (with Alexandra Niessen). Working paper, October 2009

Dynamic contracting in the mutual fund industry. Working paper, June 2004

Experimental Finance and Neuroeconomics:

Rank expectations, feedback and social hierarchies (with Agnieszka Tymula). Working paper, August 2009 (under review)

The influence of affect on beliefs, preferences and financial decisions (with Brian Knutson). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming

Genetic determinants of financial risk taking (with Joan Y. Chiao). PLoS ONE, 4 (2), February 2009

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

Interdisciplinary research activities

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

Press

Corporate Finance:

February 2009: Business Week article on the influence of public opinion on CEO compensation.
August 2008: New York Times article on the pay of mutual fund investment managers.
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:

February 2009: Reuters, BBC, Scientific American articles, American Public Media Marketplace Radio piece referring to the paper "Genetic determinants of financial risk taking".
December 2008: National Public Radio piece on investing mistakes.
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”; Washington Post article on the relation 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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