Faculty & Research

Finance

John Bizjak, Ph.D., The Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Professor of Finance

Recent Activity
"Exercise Behavior, Valuation and the Incentive Effects of Employee Stock Options", Journal of Financial Economics, May 2005. The paper was co--authored with J. Carr Bettis and Michael Lemmon.
"Exercise Behavior and the Value and Incentives of Employee Stock Options," with Bettis, J. Carr and Michael Lemmon, Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming).
“Exercise Behavior and the Value and Incentives of Employee Stock Options” forthcoming at the Journal of Financial Economics.
“An Empirical Examination of the Role of the Compensation Committee in Structuring Executive Pay,” Journal of Banking and Finance, July 2003.
“Has the Use of Peer Groups Contributed to Higher Levels of Executive Compensation?” work in progress.
Peer Groups was cited in The Wall Street Journal (Apr 12, 2004), Special Section on Executive Compensation.
Expertise

Shareholder activism, board structure, managerial compensation, law and economics

Beverly Fuller, Ph.D.

Recent Activity
"Is Beta Dead or Alive?" Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, pp. 283-311 April/May2000.
Expertise

Financial analyses
Event study methodology

Shafiqur Rahman, Ph.D.

Recent Activity
"Intraday Trading Volume and Return Volatility of the DJIA Stocks," with Darrat, A. and Zhong, M., Journal of Banking and Finance, 2002
"Intraday Return Volatility Process: Evidence from NASDAQ Stocks," with Ang, K. P., Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, vol. 19, no. 2, 2002.
Daniel Rogers, Ph.D.
Recent Activity
"Managerial Risk-Taking Incentives and Executive Stock Option Repricing: A Study of US Casino Executives," Financial Mangement, Vol. 34, Spring 2005 (forthcoming).
"Southwest Airlines: The Blended Winglet Project," Case Research Journal (forthcoming).
"Do Firms Hedge in Response to Tax Incentives?" with Graham, J. R., Journal of Finance, vol. 57, pp. 815-839, April 2002.
"Does Executive Portfolio Structure Affect Risk Management? CEO Risk-Taking Incentives and Corporate Derivatives Usage," Journal of Banking and Finance, pp. 271-295, March 2002.
Expertise

Corporate finance (hedging, executive compensation, and governance)

John Settle, Ph.D.

Recent Activity
"Adapting Financial Measures: Making a Business Case for Software Process Improvement," with Harrison, W., Raffo, D., and Eickelmann, N., Software Quality Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, 1999.
The Role of Defect Potential in Understanding the Economic Value of Process Improvements," with Harrison , W., Raffo, D., and Eickelmann, N., Presented at the Proceedings of the America 's Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Long Beach, California, August 2000.
Expertise