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. (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 FinanceAn 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