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Dr. Alexander W. Butler is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Texas at Dallas where he teaches the graduate-level Financial Markets and Institutions course (previously titled Money and Capital Markets) and finance doctoral seminars such as Empirical Corporate Finance and Institutions and Markets. Prior to coming to UTD, he taught at University of South Florida, Rice University, Louisiana State University, and Indiana University. He has taught finance at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, MS in Finance, and PhD levels. Butler received his Ph.D. in Finance at Indiana University in 1999. During his last year in residence at IU, he taught full-time as a Visiting Lecturer.
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, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 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.