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Finance Research

  • John Bizjak, Ph.D., The Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Professor of Finance
    Professor Bizjak's current research interests include managerial compensation, corporate governance, and antitrust law. He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Accounting and Economics among others. His work has also been cited in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Week.

  • Brian Bolton, Ph.D.
    His research interests revolve around the study of corporate governance, or how boards of directors, compensation structures, government regulations and other mechanisms attempt to ensure that a firm’s managers are operating the firm in the best interests of the firm’s stakeholders.  He has published articles in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Columbia Law Review and numerous other journals and books.  Prior to entering academia, Dr. Bolton worked as a research analyst with a private equity group and as an acquisition consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

  • Beverly Fuller, Ph.D.
    Beverly Fuller holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Virginia Tech and teaches in the areas of corporate and personal finance. However, Beverly's research is mostly in the investments area. In the past, she investigated the over-allotment option, preferred stock, and the choice between debt and equity. Mostly recently, she has looked at measures of risk and has created new, more effective measures that are used to forecast a firm's returns. Besides being an active presenter at professional meetings, her research work is published in numerous academic journals such as Financial Management, Journal of Applied Business Research, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Journal of International Finance, Journal of the American Academy of Accounting and Finance, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and the Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute.

  • Shafiqur Rahman, Ph.D.
    Dr. Rahman's research interests include Corporate Finance, Mutual Funds & Other Institutional Investors, Derivative Securities, Asset Pricing Models, Index Options & Futures, Market Volatility, Neural Network Models & Financial Markets, & Financial Planning Models

  • Daniel Rogers, Ph.D.
    He has published research in the areas of corporate risk management and derivatives usage, managerial incentives and executive compensation, stock option repricing. His published work includes articles in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and Journal of Futures Markets. His Financial Management article on the valuation effects of jet fuel hedging in the airline industry (co-authored with David Carter and Betty Simkins) was a co-winner of the Addison-Wesley Prize in 2006. Prior to his life as an academic, Dr. Rogers held management positions with a national airline and a petroleum products distributor during which he purchased jet and diesel fuel, and managed the price risk associated with these commodities.

  • John Settle, Ph.D.
    John W. Settle, Finance, has a B.A. from Pomona College and a B.S., M.B.A. and Ph.D. from University of Washington. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Dr. Settle teaches corporate finance, investments and portfolio management. He has done research in the areas of mergers and valuation issues. His current research interests are in investor psychology, market returns, and applied corporate financial concepts.