Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Chairs
Mark Flannery (Ph.D., Yale University)
Bank of America Eminent Scholar Chair
Professor Flannery's current research centers on corporate financial structure, management of financial institutions, and the role for government regulation of the financial sector. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Financial Management Association and co-director of the FDIC's Center for Financial Research. He has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina, and as a visiting professor at the London Business School, New York University, and the University of New South Wales.
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Joel Houston (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
John B. Hall Chair
Professor Houston teaches a course on Valuation for second-year MBA students and MSF students, and teaches the capstone corporate finance course to senior students who are graduating in finance. He also teaches introductory finance in the Executive MBA and Internet MBA programs. His research focuses on the factors influencing bank risk taking, international links between capital market development and organizational structure, the role of banks in the capital acquisition process, executive compensation in banking, mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry, and the effects of earnings guidance.
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Christopher James (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
William H. Dial/SunTrust Eminent Scholar Chair
Professor James specializes in financial institutions, corporate finance, and strategy. Professor James has had appointments with the FDIC, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Comptroller of the Currency, the University of Michigan, and served for several years as the John B. Rogers Professor of Finance at the University of Oregon. Professor James is a consultant to a number of corporations on risk management and valuation issues
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Mahendrarajah Nimalendran (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Chair
Dr. Mahendrarajah Nimalendran is the Bank of America Professor of Finance at the Warrington College Business at University of Florida and Chairman of the Department of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate. He has taught at University of Florida since 1990, and he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1997 and 1998. He was also a visiting Academic Fellow at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from August 2004 to December 2005. He earned his Ph.D. in finance degree from the University of Michigan and his undergraduate degree is from the University of Sri Lanka. Professor Nimalendran's area of expertise is market microstructure, and he is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Markets. His research has been published in leading finance and economics journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Econometrics. His recent research has focused on the interactions between market microstructure, corporate finance, and asset prices. While at the SEC, Nimalendran worked on projects involving market regulation, market structures and execution quality, valuation of employee stock options, and issues related to disclosure of information.
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Jay Ritter (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Joe B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair
Professor Ritter is a leading authority on initial public offerings and a winner of the Smith Breeden Prize for the Journal of Finance's best article. He was the only academic serving on the NASD/NYSE Committee formed to advise the SEC on regulating the IPO market. His interests include empirical corporate finance and behavioral finance. He has previously served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and was a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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