News Spotlight

Congratulations to Tracie Woidtke, who was awarded the Southern-Peters Outstanding Researcher Award at the 2008 CBA Honors Banquet.  Also to Swannee Sexton, who was honored with the Allen H. Keally Outstanding Commitment to Students Award.

Harold Black was the Distinguished Luncheon Speaker at the Midwest Finance Association annual meetings this year in San Antonio, Feb 28, 2008.

Tom Boehm and Ray DeGennaro won the Best Empirical Paper Award at the Southern Finance Association meetings in  Charleston, SC, October 2007 for their research "A Discrete Choice Model of Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Classification and Prediction." 

Ramon P. DeGennaro, the SunTrust Professor of Finance, has accepted a position on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Private Enterprise.   The Journal of Private Enterprise is entering its 23rd year of publication.  It is indexed in the Journal of Economic Literature and included in the Econlit databases EBSCO, Proquest, and Cengage/Thomson

Robert Allan Weir Sr., former faculty member in the Department of Finance, died March 21, 2008 in Knoxville. He was a member of the Class of 1946 at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis and proudly served in the U.S. Navy for 22 years. While serving, he was recognized as an expert pistol marksman. Following his Navy retirement, Dr. Weir received his PhD in Finance at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He came to the University of Tennessee where he was a professor until his retirement in 1989. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Jennifer Weir Shuman. His survivors include his wife of 62 years, Millicent.

Four Finance Department faculty have research published or accepted in the Financial Times list of Top 40 journals used in their MBA programs ranking process.

Fauver, Larry, “Does Good Corporate Governance Include Employee Representation? Evidence from German Corporate Boards” (with Michael E. Fuerst), Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 82, 2006, pp. 673-710.

 Murphy, Deborah L., Ronald E. Shrieves, and Samuel L. Tibbs, “Understanding the Penalties Associated with Corporate Misconduct:  An Empirical Examination of Earnings and Risk,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

 Woidtke, Tracie, “Investor Protection and Real Investment by U.S. Multinationals,” with Eric Kelley, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 41, 2006, pp. 541-572.

Woidtke, Tracie, “Do Boards Pay Attention when Institutional Investor Activists ‘Just Vote No’?” with Diane Del Guercio and Laura Seery, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming 2008.

Transitions

We are pleased to welcome Larry Fauver as Assistant Professor in the department.  Dr. Fauver joins the UT faculty from the University of Miami, where he taught international finance and international financial management to undergraduate and graduate students.  He received his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Florida in 2000.  His research focuses on firm performance, corporate governance, and corruption, both in a domestic and international environment. Dr. Fauver has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, and other finance journals.  He teaches the introductory international finance courses in UT’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum.

Dr. Fauver has has won two best research paper awards in 2007. 

Cary Collins has left the department to take an academic position at Bryant University in Rhode Island.  All the best to Cary and his family in this transition.