The Department of Finance recognizes our doctoral graduates. These doctoral graduates are presented along with their dissertations. Our graduate level demonstrates a commitment to excellence in a variety of complex contemporary financial issues.
Doctoral Graduates
| Name | Affiliation | Dissertation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arshadi, Nasser | University of Missouri-St Louis | Determinants of New Bank Performance | 1982 |
| Auciello-Newfeld, Daria | Dominican Republic University | 2010 | |
| Baek, Chung | Troy University - Dothan Campus | Comparison of Alternative Option Pricing Models: Systematic Versus Mixed Systematic/Diversifiable Jump Diffusion | 2006 |
| Bale, Jill | Doane College | Why Firms Issue Preferred Stocks | 1993 |
| Bengtson, Cynthia | Woodman of the World | The Life Cycle of the Firm: Pension Management Incentives Within the PBGC Structure | 1996 |
| Bredthauer, Jeffrey | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | Two Essays on the Housing Bubble | 2011 |
| Brown, Todd | Stephen F. Austin State University | Managerial Optimism and Market Misvaluation: The Effects on Mergers and Acquisitions | 2006 |
| Bui, Loc Tan | Susquehanna University | Essays in Fixed-Income Securities | 2023 |
| Burgman, Todd | Multinational Corporate Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence | 1993 | |
| Choi, Bong-Dae | Dividend Signalling, Analysts' Earnings Forecasts, and Insider Trading | 1990 | |
| Clarke, Anthony | Bellevue University | Testing for the Presence of Momentum and Mean Reversion in Individual Stock Returns | 2000 |
| Deng, Lin | City University of Macau | Two Essays on Corporate Finance | 2022 |
| Dga, Ei-Run | An Empirical Examination of Deposit Insurance Decisions | ||
| Dudney, Donna | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | A Rational Expectations Test of the Size Anomaly | 1997 |
| Dunham, Lee | Creighton University | The Dynamic Relation Among Investment, Earnings and Dividends | 2008 |
| Emekter, Riza | Robert Morris University | The Effect of Government Debt Quantity Shocks on the Term Structure of Interest Rates | 2004 |
| Fabrizio, Vincenzo | Erasmus University Rotterdam | How Diversity Affects Firm Outcomes in Different Contexts | 2022 |
| Frickel, Beverly | University of Central Oklahoma | An Analysis of Strategic Group Formation and Performance in the Property and Liability Insurance Industry | 1992 |
| Gasper, Julie Ann | Asset Depletion and Cash Flow Increase Effects of Reverse Mortgage Use by Elderly Households | 1984 | |
| Griswold, Melissa | University of Missouri - Columbia | Evidence of Self Selecting in Banking and the Impact on Bank Performance | 1996 |
| Harris, Christopher R. | Elon University | Dissertation: Securitization and Trade Credit | 2013 |
| Hassan, Mohammad Kabirul | University of New Orleans | Off-Balance Sheet Items and Risk-Taking Behavior of Commercial Banks | 1990 |
| Hensrud-Ellingson, Shari | A Reexamination of the Impact of Demographics on the Stock and Price of Housing | 1998 | |
| Ivanov, Stoyu | San Jose State University | Three Essays on S&P 500 Index Constituent Changes | 2009 |
| Jackman, Thomas | Nebraska Wesleyan | Corporate Bankruptcy and Prediction: An Analysis of Multi-Discriminant, Logit and Survival Models Using the Statement of Cash Flows | 2011 |
| Jares, Timothy | University of Nebraska at Kearney | The Survival and Consequences of Noise Traders in Financial Markets: A Numerical Modeling Approach | 1998 |
| Jensen, Gerald | Creighton University | The Importance of Bankruptcy Costs in Firms' Capital Structure Decisions | 1988 |
| Jeutang, Noel Pavel | University of South Dakota | The Outcome of Prior Stock Repurchase Decisions and its Effect on Future Stock Repurchasing Decisions | 2014 |
| Jirasakuldech, Benjamas | Slippery Rock University | Financial Disclosure and Speculative Bubbles: An International Comparison | 2002 |
| Johnson, Robert | CFA Institute | Three Essays on Executive Compensation | 1988 |
| Joyce, William | Eastern Illinois University | Managerial Compensation & Loan Loss Reserve Accounting | 1997 |
| Jurn, Iksu | Saginaw Valley State University | Tests of the Rationality of Price Forecasts in the Stock Market: A Variable Intercept Model Approach | 1991 |
| Kamal, Rashiqa | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater | Director Stock Ownerships Plans, Firm Performance, And Acquisition Activity of the Firms | 2008 |
| Kim, Dae-Lyong | The Empirical Study of Performance Rating and Distribution of Mutual Fund Under the Finite Mixtures of Normal Distribution Hypothesis | 2003 | |
| Larsen, James | Wright State University | Essays on Real Estate Broker Incentives and Real Property Values | 1987 |
| Lavin, Angeline | RBC Wealth Management | An Empirical Test of the Fundamental Value Hypothesis in Asset Markets | 1997 |
| Lawrence, Edward | Florida International University | Four Empirical Essays on Asset Pricing Models | 2005 |
| Le, Nam Hoang | University of Nebraska at Kearney | Essays in Corporate Finance | 2020 |
| Li, Zhe | Bemidji State University | Essays in Corporate Finance | 2016 |
| Mann, Steven | University of South Carolina | Dividend Announcements under Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Study | 1987 |
| McClatchey, Christine | University of Northern Colorado | The Impact of Deposit Insurance on Risk-Taking Behavior: An Application to Credit Unions | 1995 |
| McNamara, Michael | Washington State University | An Empirical Examination of the Relative Efficiency of Mutual and Stock Life Insurance Companies | 1988 |
| Melton, Michael | Roger Williams University | Two Essays on Tournament Theory | 1999 |
| Mieth, Bruce | Ameritas | A Look at Beta, Size and Book-to-Market in the Cross-Section of Returns: The Development and Application of the Multifactor Switched Model | 2000 |
| Mishra, Suchismita | Florida International University | Skewness Preference and Measurement of Abnormal Returns: A Comparative Evaluation of Current vs. Proposed Event Study Paradigm | 2002 |
| Nguyen, Viet | The University of District of Columbia | Dissertation: The Economic Impact of Mutual Fund Investor Behaviors | 2018 |
| Nycum, Thomas | 1985 | ||
| Oorlog, Dale | Deceased | Risk-Adjusted Deposit Insurance Premiums at Optimal Audit | 1991 |
| Park, Sang-Bum | An Essay on Manager Compensation in Life Insurance Industry | 1998 | |
| Payne, Brian | University of Nebraska at Omaha | Two Essays on Health Care Costs and Asset Returns | 2010 |
| Piccinini, Renaud | First National Bank | Estimating the Tail Index of Pareto-Levy distributions Using a Neural Network as a Committee Machine | 2005 |
| Rainville, Megan | Missouri State University | Essays in Corporate Finance | 2020 |
| Reem, Jong-Wook | The Exchange rate Exposure of Banking Institutions | 2004 | |
| Sackley, William | University of North Carolina-Wilmington | Size, Risk, and Returns in Commercial Banking | 1990 |
| Schieuer, Kevin | Bellevue College | Hedging Catastrophic Risks in the Property Insurance Industry | 1998 |
| Schwebach, Robert | Colorado State University | Three Essays on Investor Beliefs and Market Equilibrium | 1992 |
| Sen, Swapan | Deceased | Currency Denomination in International Loan Contracts of the Commercial Banks | 1991 |
| Severns, Roger | Minnesota State University | Preferences for Attributes of Life Insurance: A Conjoint Measurement Approach (Locus) | 1986 |
| Sigler, Kevin | University of North Carolina-Wilmington | Executive Compensation: Cost Control and Investment Incentives | 1989 |
| Simpson, Thuy Huong | Dissertation: Empirical Examination of Long-Run Insider Returns and insiders' Options Exercise Behavior | 2013 | |
| Solberg, Donald | Freddie Mac | A Methodology for Identifying the Sources of Risk Premiums | 1987 |
| Swift, Christopher | Nebraska Wesleyan | Two Empirical Essays on Mutual Thrift Conversions | 2010 |
| Talib, Abdul Fuad | Captive Insurance Companies - A Delphic Study: A Long Range Forecast of Their Impact and Effect on the Domestic and International Conventional Insurance Market | 1985 | |
| Tresl, Jiri | University of Mannheim | Dissertation Two Essays on Payout Policy | 2013 |
| Volkman, David | University of Nebraska at Omaha | The Impact of Advisory Incentive Fees on Return and Risk of Investment Companies | 1992 |
| Vygodina, Anna | California State University-Sacramento | Economic Determinants of Extreme Fluctuations in Exchange Rates | 2005 |
| Weber, Marsha | Changes in Bank Risk From Deposit Insurance Premium Increases | 1997 | |
| Went, Peter | Columbia University - NYC | Agency Problems and Risk in Banking | 2001 |
| Wilcox, Stephen | Minnesota State University | The Structure of Corporate Ownership: The Importance of Non-Owner Claims and the Value of Managerial Control | 1992 |
| Wilson, Michael | Northwest Missouri State | Changes in the Riskiness of Commercial Banks: 1975-1989 | 1992 |
| Wingender, John | Creighton University | The Cost of Skewness in Portfolio Return Distributions | |
| Yook, Kenchang | Johns Hopkins University | Determinants of the Choice of Payment Method in Acquisitions | 1989 |
| Ysmailov, Bektemir | Nazarbayev University | Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies | 2020 |
| Yu, Jin | St. Cloud State University | Share Repurchases and Earnings Management | 2009 |
| Zhang, Yi | Prairie View A&M University | Three Essays on Investor Heterogeneous Beliefs | 2008 |
| Zhao, Lei | United International College (UIC) | Three Essays on Asset Pricing | 2018 |
| Zhou, Haigang | Cleveland State University | Risk Incentives of Executive Stock Options: Evidence From Mergers and Acquisitions | 2006 |