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Starting in summer/fall 2009, Dr. Alexander W. Butler will be an associate professor with tenure at Rice University.
His research primarily focuses on empirical questions in external financing decisions of firms (security issuance and trading, including the predictive power of aggregate security issues for future market returns, the roles of investment banks in security offerings, short selling, convertible bonds, banking, and non-bank financial intermediaries). He has had papers published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Financial Analysts Journal, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, has made research presentations at numerous universities and national, international, and regional conferences, has won five research awards at academic conferences, and has been nominated for a Smith Breeden award and been a finalist for the Brattle Prize.