Christine Parlour

Professor Of Finance at Haas School of Business

Biography

Haas School of Business

Christine A. Parlour is the Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas. Most of her work is in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking. Her current work focuses on changes in the payments system and the effects on bank balance sheets. She has written for major finance and economics journals. She has been on the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board and is currently on the steering committee for the New Special Study of Securities Markets.

Education

  • PhD, Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston
  • MA, Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston
  • BSocSci, University of Ottawa

Positions Held

At Haas since 2005
* 2011 – present, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting
* 2006 – present, Associate Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business
* 2003 – present, Associate Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University
* 2005 – 2006, Assistant Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business
* 2000 – 2001, Visiting Economist, S.E.C.
* 1995 – 2002, Assistant Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Fintech
  • Digital Payments
  • Credit Markets
  • Finance
  • Microstructure
  • Banking

External Service and Assignments

  • Co-Editor: Review of Finance
  • Consulting: Morgan Stanley (Auctions) Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board

Selected Papers and Publications

Christine Parlour, Limor Golan and Uday Rajan. Competition, Managerial Slack and Corporate Governance. Review of Corporate Finance Studies. 2015

Christine Parlour, Marcus M. Opp, and Johan Walden. Markup Cycles, Dynamic Misallocation and Amplification. Journal of Economic Theory. 2014

Christine Parlour and Andrew Winton. Laying Off Credit Risk: Loan Sales versus Credit Default Swaps. Journal of Financial Economics. 2013

Christine Parlour. Financial Flexibility, Bank Capital Flows and Asset Prices. Journal of Finance. 2012

Christine Parlour, S. Betermier, T. Jansson, and J. Walden. Hedging Labor Income Risk. Journal of Financial Economics. 2012

Christine Parlour, Laurens G. Debo, and Uday Rajan. Signaling Quality via Queues. Management Science. 2011

Honors and Awards

  • GSIA “Excellence in the Classroom” Teaching Award, 2000
  • Carnegie-Bosch Research Grant, 1999, 2001
  • BP America Research Chair, 2002-2003
  • WFA NYSE Best Equity Trading Paper, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market,” 2004
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management Quant Award for Best Paper in Review of Finance, “Rationing in IPOs,” 2005

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