Faculty and Instructors

Wisconsin School of Business

Robert Krainer

Professor - Finance

Robert Krainer is a professor of Finance, Investment, and Banking in the Wisconsin School of Business.

His research focuses on business cycles, corporate finance, financial markets, and international trade/finance.

He has published articles in the Journal of Finance; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Oxford Economic Papers; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Southern Economic Journal; Canadian Journal of Economics; International Review of Law and Economics; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; and Journal of Financial Stability.

Krainer has been on the faculty at the University of Oxford and was a visiting scholar and a Foundation Fellow at the Banque de France. He teaches courses in financial institutions, financial markets, economic activity, and corporate finance. He has been a guest lecturer at many universities including the University of Chicago, Washington University at Saint Louis, Universite Libre de Bruxelle, Norwegian School of Management, City University of London, University of Zurich, Universite de Bourgogne, University of Birmingham (England), DePaul University, University of Urbino, and Bocconi University.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1964 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the department of Economics at Harvard University in 1965.
 

Selected Accepted Journal Articles


Krainer, R. (2011). Towards a Program for Financial Stability, forthcoming and available online print version forthcoming. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Krainer, R. (2011). Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance - A Review. Journal of Financial Stability, Forthcoming

Selected Published Journal Articles


Krainer, R. (2009). Portfolio and financing adjustment of U.S. banks: Some empirical evidence. Journal of Financial Stability (Vol 5), 1-25.
Krainer, R. (2002). Banking in a Theory of the Business Cycle: A Model and Critique of the Basle Accord on Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Banks. International Review of Law and Economics (21), 413-433.
Krainer, R. (2000). Risk Sharing, Return Sharing, and Arbitrage: A Contribution to the Corporate Finance of Business Cycles. Journal of the French Finance Association, N/A.

Submitted Working Papers


Krainer, R. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1847747.

Undergraduate Courses


Readings and Research in Finance
Course DescriptionAn analysis of selected proposals contained in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act of Regulating Wall Street such as the so-called Volcker Rule, CoCo bonds, Living Wills, and others.
(FIN 399 Section 1), Spring 2011.



Presentations


XX International Conference on Banking and Finance
Economic Stability under Alternative Banking Systems

Post-Crisis Financial Sector Performance
"Towards a Program for Financial Stability"

Seminar Presentation in the Department of Economics, Bangor University
"On the Role of a Stock Market in the European Bank Loan Market: A Study of France, Germany, and the Euro Area"

Colloquium on New Paradigms in Money & Finance
"On the Role of a Stock Market in the European Bank Loan Market: A Study of France, Germany, and the Euro Area"

Colloquium on New Paradigms in Money & Finance
"Towards a Program for Financial Stability"

Conference on the Financial Crisis of 2008: Credit Markets and Effects on Developed and Emerging Countries
Roundtable Discussant

27th Symposium on Money, Banking, and Finance
On the Role of a Stock Market in the European Bank Loan Market: A Study of France, Germany and the Euro Area

Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance
On the Role of a Stock Market in the European Bank Loan Market: A Study of France, Germany, and the Euro Area

Seminar in Economics
On the Role of a Stock Market in the European Bank Loan Market: A Study of France, Germany, and Italy

Infinity Conference on International Finance
On the Role of a Stock Market in the European Bank Loan Market

Bocconni University
Portfolio and Financing Adjustments of U.S. Banks: An Empirical Analysis

Banque de France
Bank Lending in the Euro Area

Finance Seminar
Corporate Finance from the Perspective of Bondholders

Banque de France
Portfolio and Financing Adjustments of U.S. Banks Over the Business Cycle

Banque de France
Corporate Finance from the Perspective of Bondholders

Symposium on Small Open Economies in a Globalized World
Banking and Business Cycles: Some Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

22nd Symposium on Banking and Monetary Economics
Financial Aspects of Business Cycles: An Analysis of Balance Sheet Adjustments of U.S. Nonfinancial Enterprises over the Twentieth Century

Finance Seminar
Banking in a Theory of the Business Cycle: Some Empirical Evidence

20th Symposium on Banking and Monetary Economics
Banking, Business Cycles, and the Basle Accord: Some Emperical Evidence

Finance Seminar
Corporate Governance and Business Cycles in the G-7 Countries: Do Institutions Really Matter?

5th CASLE Workshop in Law and Economics
Corporate Governance and Business Cycles in the G-7 Countries: Do Institutions Really Matter?

8th Annual Conference of the Multi-National Finance Society
Corporate Governance and Business Cycles in the G-7 Countries: Do Institutions Really Matter?

Series of five lectures
Money, Finance, and the Economy

European Association of Law and Economics
Banking in a Theory of the Business Cycle: A Model and Critique of the Basle Accord on Risk Based, Capital Requirements for Banks

8th World Congress of the Econometric Society
Corporate Governance and Business Cycles in the G-7 Countries: Do Institutions Really Matter?

Finance Seminar
Corporate Governance and Business Cycles in the G-7 Countries: Do Institutions Really Matter

Editorial Boards


"Macs and PCs: Observations of the Canadian, U.S., and Global Financial Systems" - Since January 0001
Invited Manuscript Reviewer

Journal of Financial Stability - Since January 0001
Ad Hoc Reviewer

Revue Economique (French) - Since January 0001
Ad Hoc Reviewer

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Robert Krainer

 
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