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Anna Agapova, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2007

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Placement: Florida Atlantic University

(Assistant Professor, Tenure Track)

 

  

Yee Cheng Loon, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2007

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Placement: SUNY, Binghampton

(Assistant Professor, Tenure Track)

 

  

Gewndolyn Pennywell, ABD

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Placement: University of South Alabama

(Assistant Professor, Tenure Track)


 

  
 
Click Image to see more information Ebru Reis, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2006

Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

 

Selected Research:

“Rank Order Tournaments and Incentive Alignment: The Effect on Firm Performance,” (with J. Kale and A. Venkateswaran), forthcoming at the Journal of Finance.

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Anand Venkateswaran, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2004

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston MA

Selected Research:

“Rank Order Tournaments and Incentive Alignment: The Effect on Firm Performance,” (with J. Kale and E. Reis), forthcoming at the Journal of Finance.

"Analyst Research Portfolios and Forecast Accuracy: Accounting for Endogeneity," (with O. Kini, S. L. Mian, and M. J. Rebello). Under review, Journal of Finance.

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Husayn Shahrur, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2003

Assistant Professor, Bentley College, Waltham, MA

 

Selected Research:

Kale, Jayant, Shahrur, Husayn. "Corporate Capital Structure and the Characteristics of Suppliers and Customers," Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics, 2006.

Husayn Shahrur. "Industry Structure and Horizontal Takeovers: Analysis of Wealth Effects on Rivals, Suppliers, and Corporate Customers," Journal of Financial Economics, 2005.

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John Thornton, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1999

Associate Professor, Kent State University, Kent, OH

 

Selected Research:

Nam, Jouahn, Charles Tang, John H. Thornton Jr., and Kevin Wynne, ‘The Effect of Agency Costs on the Value of Single Segment and Multi-Segment Firms,” Journal of Corporate Finance forthcoming.

Knopf, John D., Jouahn Nam, and John H. Thornton Jr., 2002, “The Volatility and Price Sensitivities of Managerial Stock Option Portfolios and Corporate Hedging,” Journal of Finance 57, 801-813.

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Jacqueline Garner, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1998

Assistant Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

 

Selected Research:

Garner, J. and B. Marshall, "Unit IPOS: What the Warrant Characteristics Reveal about the Issuing Firm", Journal of Business, (78), 5, (2005).

C. Crutchley, J. Garner, and B. Marshall, "An Examination of Board Stability and The Long-term Performance of Initial Public Offerings," Financial Management, (31) 3 (2002) pp. 63-90

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Jouahn Nam, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1998

Associate Professor, Pace University, NY, NY

 

Selected Research:

 Knopf, J. J Nam & J Thornton Jr, The Volatility and Price Sensitivities of Managerial Stock Option Portfolios and Corporate Hedging, The Journal of Finance, 57 801-813, (2002)

The Underinvestment Problem and Corporate Derivatives Use” (with G. Gay), Financial Management 27 (Winter 1998), pp. 53-69.

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Beverly Marshall, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1998

Associate Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

 

Selected Research:

Garner, J. and B. Marshall, "Unit IPOS: What the Warrant Characteristics Reveal about the Issuing Firm", Journal of Business, (78), 5, (2005).

C. Crutchley, J. Garner, and B. Marshall, "An Examination of Board Stability and The Long-term Performance of Initial Public Offerings," Financial Management, (31) 3 (2002) pp. 63-90

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Jun "Jonathan" Wang, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1997

Assistant Professor, Baruch College, NY, NY

 

Selected Research:  

Thomas Noe, Michael Rebello and Jun Wang (2006). The evolution of security designs. Journal of Finance, forthcoming.

Thomas Noe, Michael Rebello and Jun Wang (2003). Corporate financing: An artificial agent-based analysis. Journal of Finance 63, 943-973 (lead article).

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Roy Arthur Wiggins

Roy A. "Chip" Wiggins, III, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1995

Associate Professor, Bentley College, Waltham, MA

 

Selected Research:  

Gleason, K, Rosenthal, L, Wiggins, R. "Backing into Being Public: An Exploratory Analysis of Reverse Takeovers," Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 12, no. 1, 54-79, 2005.

Ryan, H, Wiggins, R. "Who is in Whose Pocket? Director Compensation, Bargaining Power, and Board Independence," Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 73, 497-524, 2004.

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Harley E. "Chip" Ryan, Jr., Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1994

Associate Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

 

Selected Research:  

Ryan, H, Wiggins, R. "Who is in Whose Pocket? Director Compensation, Bargaining Power, and Board Independence," Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 73, 497-524, 2004.

Kale, J, O. Kini, and H. Ryan, Financial Advisors and Shareholder Wealth Gains in Corporate Takeovers, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2003, Vol. 38, No. 3, 475-501 (lead article)

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Ronald W. Best, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1992

Professor, State University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA

 

Selected Research:  

"Does Information Asymmetry Explain the Diversification Discount?" with Charles W. Hodges and Bing-Xuan Lin, Journal of Financial Research 27, (Summer 2004), 235-249.

"Alternative Information Sources and the Information Content of Bank Loans," with Hang Zhang, Journal of Finance 48 (September 1993): 1507-1522.

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Gautam Goswami, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1992

Associate Professor, Fordham University, NY, NY

 

Selected Research:  

"Debt-Financing Under Asymmetric Information," with Tom Noe and Michael Rebello published in Journal of Finance Vol. 50, No. 2, June 1995, 633-659.

"Collusion in Uniform-Price Auctions: Experimental Evidence and Implications for the Treasury Experiment," with Tom Noe and Michael Rebello published in The Review of Financial Studies, Fall 1996, 9 (3), pp. 757-785.

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Gabriel Ramirez, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1989

Professor, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

 

Selected Research:  

Debtor-in-Possession Financing and Bankruptcy Resolution: Empirical Evidence, (with S. Dahiya, K. John, and M. Puri ), Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1, July 2003

Coercive Tender and Exchange Offers in Distressed High-Yield Restructurings: An Empirical Analysis (with Sris Chatterjee and Upinder S. Dhillon a), Journal of Financial Economics, vol 38, 1995, pp 333-360. 

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