Professor | Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting | Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Finance
About
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.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Fintech
- Digital Payments
- Credit Markets
- Finance
- Microstructure
- Banking
- 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
At Haas since 2005
2012 – present, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting
2010 – 2011, Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
2006 – 2012, Associate Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business
2005 – 2006, Assistant Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business
2003 – 2006, Associate Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University
2000 – 2001, Visiting Economist, S.E.C.
1995 – 2002, Assistant Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University
- Co-Editor: Review of Finance
- Consulting: Morgan Stanley (Auctions) Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board
Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching
PhD Program
2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Quant Award for Best Paper in Review of Finance, “Rationing in IPOs”
2005
WFA NYSE Best Equity Trading Paper, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market”
2004
BP America Research Chair
2002 – 2003
GSIA “Excellence in the Classroom” Teaching Award
2000
Carnegie–Bosch Research Grant
Carnegie Bosch Institute
1999, 2001
“Contracts and Risk Sharing”
RMI Grant
2007
COR Faculty Research Grant
UC Berkeley
2005
“Valuing an LNG Supply Chain”
CART Research Grant
2004
- Robinhood’s CEO is a dogecoin fanboy. What about his dog of a company?, Protocol, 04/18/2022
- Christine Parlour Discusses How Investors in Crypto Can Stay Safe, Live Bitcoin News, 12/29/2021
- Early Theranos investor will sell his stock certificate in the company as NFT, banking on Elizabeth Holmes’ fame, CNBC, 12/16/2021
- I teach cryptocurrency at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Here are 3 things every new crypto investor needs to know, MarketWatch, 12/12/2021
- The crypto industry is plotting an end run around the SEC, Protocol, 11/19/2021
- Is Cryptocurrency a Good Investment?, The Motley Fool, 10/07/2021
- Litecoin’s fake Walmart deal could have crypto regulators circling, Protocol, 09/14/2021
- Mastercard is saying goodbye to the magnetic stripe, Marketplace, 08/18/2021
- Why The IRS May Take It Easy On Crypto, Protocol, 08/17/2021
- Investors are hankering for crypto. Wealth managers are swooping in., Protocol, 07/13/2021
- Top US Business Schools Are Racing to Incorporate Blockchain, CoinDesk, 04/17/2017
- ‘On Like Donkey Kong’: How a Dubious Super PAC Boosted a Questionable Penny Stock, ProPublica, 05/16/2016
