Riëtte Carstens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Dr. Carstens’s research focuses on textual analysis, real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate investment and commercial real estate finance. Her research has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management and Journal of Real Estate Literature.
Jingjing Chen Ph.D, Assistant Professor
Dr. Chen's research interests include empirical asset pricing, market microstructure, derivatives, and sustainable investment. She has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance. She is currently working on research topics related to information shocks and asset prices, return anomaly and predictability, sustainable investment and regulations.
Julia Freybote, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Dr. Freybote's research focuses on investor behavior, information environment and asset pricing in the REIT and commercial real estate market. Her work has been published in Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and the Journal of Real Estate Research. In 2019, she received the William N. Kinnard Scholar Award from the American Real Estate Society (ARES), which recognizes outstanding real estate scholars early in their academic career.
Janet Hamilton, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Dr. Hamilton’s research interests focus on issues of applied corporate investment decisions, valuation, and issues in financial education, especially as it relates to the development of critical thinking. She has published across disciplines, including in the Journal of Financial Education, Journal of International Finance, Journal of Marketing Education, Journal of Management and Structural Equation Modeling.
Qin Lian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cameron Professor of Finance
Dr. Lian’s research focuses on corporate finance, especially in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, insider trading, securities class action lawsuit, and corporate governance. She has published papers in the Journal of Law and Economics, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, and other finance and business journals. Her research papers have received a variety of research awards and distinctions, including 2012 Outstanding Article in Journal of Financial Research, the 2009 EFA Outstanding Paper Award in Corporate Finance, the 2008 SFA Outstanding Paper Award in Corporate Finance, and a 2008 FMA Top-Ten Sessions designation.
Piman Limpaphayom, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Dr. Limpaphayom has a wide variety of research interests in corporate finance, risk management and insurance, corporate governance, market microstructure, investments and taxation. His research papers appear in reputable journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Risk and Insurance. His current research projects focus on global analyst forecasts, CSR in the US and Thailand, risk of insurance firms in Japan, bankruptcy proceedings in Thailand and real estate markets in Japan.
Jing Zhao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cameron Professor of Finance, Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Dr. Zhao’s research focuses on empirical corporate finance. She is primarily interested in the study of executive compensation and contracts, corporate governance, innovation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate disclosure. She is also interested in real estate and urban economics research with a focus on how school choice programs impact real estate development and the environment. Her research has appeared in journals such as Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Financial Management, and Real Estate Economics. Her Review of Financial Studies article was awarded the IEFA Best Paper Award.