Faculty and Staff Profiles
The Finance and Securities Analysis Center's faculty consists of more than twenty full-time research professors, as well as numerous clinical instructors, drawn from the Lundquist College's finance and accounting departments. The center provides financial support to faculty members for summer research through a competitive grant process conducted each spring. In addition, the center supplies support for data and tools faculty members use to conduct their research.
An introduction to staff and affiliated faculty members is below. For more detailed profiles, click on their names.
CENTER STAFF
Managing Director
DeBoer has worked in investment management, corporate finance, and commercial banking. From 2000-2010, he was chief financial officer of Lithia Motors, a Fortune 700 auto retailer and one of Oregon's largest public companies after Nike. The Portland Business Journal named him 2010 CFO of the Year. Prior, DeBoer was as an analyst and sector fund manager with Fidelity Investments in Tokyo, Japan, and spent several years in commercial banking at Fuji Bank. His MBA is from the London Business School, and he is a member of the National Investors Relations Institute.
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Assistant Professor of Finance
Atanassov received his PhD from the University of Michigans Ross School of Business. His research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, corporate governance, capital structures, technological innovation, and international finance. One of his current projects investigates how the threat of hostile takeovers affects the innovative output of U.S. firms.
John B. Rogers Professor of Banking and Finance
Ekkehart comes from Texas A & M University where he was the Associate Professor and Mays Research Fellow. He received his PhD in Finance from the University of Georgia. Ekkehart is an expert on microstructure in financial markets. His research includes studies of information transmission through corporate share repurchases, short sales, as well as information linkages between equities, options, and bonds.
Assistant Professor of Finance
Sith Chaisurote (PhD, Stanford University) is an assistant professor of finance. His research interest is in empirical asset pricing in an international context. His recent work examines various effects of international institutional investors on asset prices. He studies liquidity provision by institutional investors during a supply shock in Brazil and its associated price spillovers across Latin America. His other work considers the role of investor recognition of assets in emerging markets and the relationship between international fund flows and asset returns. He joined the college's faculty in 2009.
Associate Professor of Finance, Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Distinguished Research Scholar
Head of the Department of Finance
Finance and Securities Analysis Center Academic Director
Chalmers holds a PhD from the University of Rochester. His research interests include the study of taxes and transaction costs and their impact on security returns. Several of his research papers have been referenced in such media outlets as The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. Chalmers has been one of the faculty advisors for the student-run University of Oregon Investment Group, which manages a stock portfolio of more than $900,000.
Richard W. Lindholm Professor of Finance and Taxation
Dann received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include corporate financial policy and governance. He has done extensive research on corporate stock repurchases and the effect of management policies designed to thwart takeover attempts on the welfare of common stockholders. He has served as an editor and reviewer for several prominent financial journals and has been a faculty advisor to the student-run University of Oregon Investment Group.
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Davis has a PhD from the University of Washington, and has professional experience working as a corporate accountant. She joined the Lundquist College of Business in 2006 after five years on the faculty at Washington University's Olin School of Business in Saint Louis, where she won accolades for her teaching in financial accounting. Davis' research investigates prevailing practices related to how companies report quarterly earnings to the media.
Assistant Professor of Finance
Gaa received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. His general areas of research are empirical asset pricing, market efficiency, information intermediaries, investor attention, and text-based information in financial markets.
Associate Professor of Finance, Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Distinguished Research Scholar
Del Guercio received her PhD from the University of Chicago. Her active research interests include the investment practices of institutional investors and the role of pension funds in corporate governance. She previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Queensland, and she has received several honors for excellence in teaching. She also coordinates the college's finance PhD program.
Scharpf Professor of Accounting
Head of the Department of Accounting
Acknowledged as a leading expert in tax accounting, Guenther received his PhD from the University of Washington. He has been awarded the American Taxation Association Manuscript Award on three occasions, has presented at more than twenty-five universities, and has been published in numerous journals. He is also author of the text Financial Reporting and Analysis. His research seeks to understand the effects of income taxes on financing, investing, and other business decisions.
Assistant Professor of Finance
Gutierrez holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina. His research focuses on the pricings of stocks and bonds, the informational efficiency of financial markets, and the efficacy of trading strategies. He has taught courses in investments and asset pricing at the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels and was previously on the faculty at Texas A&M University.
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Hu holds a PhD from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He has an MS in Accounting from the National University of Singapore, and a BA in Economics from Beijing University. His research examines the economic consequences of accounting standards, mutual funds, and corporate governance.
James & Shirley Rippey Professor of Accounting
Professor King has taught at the University of British Columbia, Otago University, Auckland University, and the Norwegian School of Management. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Portugal, and he was a visiting professor at Cape Town University. His teaching interests are in financial accounting and financial statement analysis. He conducts research concerned with the relation of accounting information and firm values. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, and Accounting Horizons.
Associate Professor of Accounting
Krull received her PhD from the University of Arizona. Her general areas of research are the effects of taxes on corporate financial reporting, investment and capital structure decisions, and the market capitalization of corporate and investor level taxes. She won the American Taxation Association's 2010 Manuscript Award for the best tax accounting research paper over the past three years.
Associate Professor of Accounting, Oregon Alumni Distinguished Research Scholar
Matsunaga received his PhD from the University of Washington. His primary research interest is the design of managerial compensation contracts. He also explores issues relating to executive incentives and corporate governance structures. His research has received an Outstanding Manuscript Award from the American Taxation Association, a Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association, and a KPMG Foundation Tax Research Opportunities Award.
Cameron Distinguished Chair in Finance
Mikkelson has a PhD from the University of Rochester and has served on the faculty of Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and University College Dublin. A prominent and prolific scholar in the field of empirical finance, he has served as an editor or associate editor for several leading journals. His research focuses on corporate financing decisions and corporate governance. He was director of the colleges PhD program for several years.
Charles E. Johnson Professor of Accounting
Professor Morse taught at Cornell University from 1978 to 1991. He has also taught courses in Nepal, New Zealand, China, Finland, Indonesia, and Kenya, where he was a Fullbright Scholar. His teaching and research interests are in financial and cost accounting. Morse has written a book on market efficiency and accounting and a book on cost accounting. He has also published in the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Financial Analyst Journal.
Assistant Professor of Finance
Njorage received his PhD from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. His areas of research include earnings quality, implications of fundamental analysis for future firm performance, the interfacing between macroeconomic conditions and financial reporting, the effect of product market competition on financial reporting, and analysts' forecasts.
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Peterson received his PhD from the University of Michigan. His areas of expertise are accounting choice and disclosure, conservatism, restatements, and revenue recognition.
Assistant Professor of Finance
Petkova received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research studies the opportunities globalization creates for firms and the mechanisms through which firms become better performers. Her recent projects examine the effect of ownership changes on firm productivity, the role of foreign investors and enterprise organizational forms in firm profitability, the timing of privatization, and the relationship between government regulations and the value of state owned enterprises.