Education:

• Ph.D. - University of South Carolina, Major: Finance, Minor: Risk Management, 1987
• BS - LaSalle University, Major: Finance, 1982

Research Interests:

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Initial Public Offerings
• Fairness Opinions
• Corporate Governance
• Internal Audit and Financial Reporting

Teaching Interests:

• Principles of Corporate Finance
• Intermediate Financial Management
• Capital Markets and Institutions
• Internal Audit and Financial Reporting
• International Finance:  Australian Financial Institutions and Markets
• Valuation

Honors and Activities:

• Working Paper Series Coordinator, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance (2004-2005)
• Curriculum Committee Chair (2004-2005)
• Promotion and Tenure Committee (1998-2003)
• Seminar Series Coordinator (2002-2003)
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2004-2005)
• Committee on Information Resource Planning and Management (1997-2001)
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2004-2005)
• Assurance of Learning Task Force, (2004-2005)
• Department of Finance Chair Review Committee, (2001)
• Information Systems & Management Committee (2000-2001)
• Information Technology Advisory Committee (1998-2001)
• AACSB Steering Committee (1999-2001)

Recent Publications:

• "Reducing Compensation Expense: Valuing Options in Light of SFAS No. 123R," (with Jane Storero and Tara Stephenson), Employee Benefit Plan Review, November 2006.
• "Information Asymmetries, Litigation Risk and the Demand for Fairness Opinions: Evidence from U.S. Mergers and Acquisitions, 1980-2002" 2005 Financial Management Association Meetings, Chicago, IL
• "Value of Fairness Opinions in US Mergers and Acquisitions, 1980-2003," Laboratoire des Stratégies Idustrielles (LASI), Université de Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, April  2004.
• “Fairness Opinions and the Business Judgment Rule: An Empirical Investigation of Target Firms’ Use of Fairness Opinions,” Northwestern University Law Review, 2002, pp. 567-578
• "A Visible Hand: The Regulation of Australian Financial Services,” Chapter in Research in International Business and Finance, Lance Nail, ed., 2001, pp. 195-224
• “Signaling, Financial Slack and Corporate Acquisitions,” (with Norman H. Moore, and K. S. Maurice Tse), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2000,pp. 195-216
• “Market Valuation of Excess Pension Assets: Evidence from the Market for Corporate Control,” (with Norman H. Moore), Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1995, pp. 214-229
• “Dividend Buying: Linking Dividend Announcements and Ex-dividend Day Effects,” (with Donald H. Fehrs), Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 1995, pp. 421-43
• “Bank Holding Company Acquisition Activity: Evidence from Pre- and Post-deregulation Periods,” (with Don P. Holdren, and W. Joe Mason, Jr.), The Financial Review, 1994, pp. 275-292
• “Uncertainty During Tender Offers and the Measurement of Shareholder Wealth Effects,” (with Rodney L. Roenfeldt and Jack W. Trifts), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 1991, pp. 399-407
• “Choice of Investment Banker and Shareholders' Wealth of Firms Involved in Acquisitions,” (with Robert E. Miller), Financial Management, 1991, pp. 34-44
• “Commentary on the 1982 FMA Program,” (with Rodney L. Roenfeldt, Robert J. Sweeney and Steven J. Goldstein), Financial Management, 1982, pp. 52-54