ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Appalachian State University - Walker College of Business
Assistant Professor of Finance 2021-Present
Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Instructor 2019-2021
EDUCATION
Rice University - Jones School of Business
Ph.D. in Finance 2020
Texas A&M University
M.S. in Financial Econometrics 2013
Texas A&M University
B.S. in Economics 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor - Appalachian State University
Financial Management, Undergraduate Course Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
Visiting Assistant Professor - Southern Methodist University
Derivatives, Undergraduate Course Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Visiting Instructor - Southern Methodist University
Derivatives, Undergraduate Course Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant - Rice University
Managerial Economics, MBA Weekends Course Fall 2015, 2016, 2018
Managerial Economics, MBA Professionals Course Fall 2015, 2016, 2018
Managerial Economics, MBA Full-time Course Fall 2016
Corporate Finance, Undergraduate Course Fall 2013
PUBLISHED PAPERS
CEO Short-Term Incentives and the Agency Cost of Debt
Contemporary Accounting Research (forthcoming)
with Brian Akins, David De Angelis, and Maclean Gaulin
Do Firms Respond to Foreign Competitive Threats with Herding or Dispersion?
International Journal of Managerial Finance (2024)
The Threat of Voiced Shareholder Disapproval and the Value of Voting
Journal of Financial Research (2024)
with Justin Balthrop
Teaching Early Exercise, the Asymmetry of Changes in Payoff, and the Speculative Value of Options
Journal of Financial Education (2024)
with Jeff Hobbs and Alex Holcomb
WORKING PAPERS
Do Firms Respond to Competition with Imitation or Differentiation?
CEO Short-term Incentives and the Agency Cost of Debt
with Brian Akins, David De Angelis, and Maclean Gaulin
Credit Indexes, Arbitrage, & Contagion
with Justin Balthrop
Federal Reserve Bond Purchases and Corporate Leverage
with Justin Balthrop
The Effect of Informative Events in a Contingent Claims Pricing Framework: Evidence from Newly Issued Securities Market
with Alex Holcomb and Paul Mason
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Conferences and Seminars
(* Co-author presentations)
Presenter, Southern Finance Association (Key West, Florida) 2022
Presenter*, Financial Management Association (Atlanta, Georgia) 2022
Seminar, Appalachian State University 2021
Seminar, University of Kansas 2021
Seminar, Clemson University 2021
Presenter, European Finance Association (Helsinki, Finland) 2020
Presenter*, Western Finance Association (Coronado, California) 2018
Presenter, SFS Cavalcade (New Haven, Connecticut) 2018
Presenter, Midwest Finance Association (San Antonio, Texas) 2018
Presenter and Discussant, Financial Management Association (Boston, Massachusetts) 2017
Presenter, China International Conference in Finance (Hangzhou, China) 2017
Presenter and Discussant, Financial Management Association (Las Vegas, Nevada) 2016
Discussant, Financial Management Association (Orlando, Florida) 2015
REFERENCES
I am happy to provide research and teaching references upon request.