I am currently an associate professor at University of Texas at Dallas. I received my PhD from the department of finance at Michigan State University. My current research areas include financial media and asset prices, aggregate earnings and predictability, and networks in financial markets.
RESEARCH
Refereed publications[1] Butler, A., and U. G. Gurun, "Educational Networks, Mutual Fund Voting Patterns, and CEO Compensation", Review of Financial Studies, August 2012, 25 (8): 2533-2562. [Download]
- Formerly titled "Connected Companies' Compensation"
- Internet Appendix
- An example of what we discuss in this paper is here.
- Presented at 2010 American Finance Association meeting
[3] Cready, W. M., and U.G. Gurun “Aggregate Market Reaction to Earnings Announcements.” Journal of Accounting Research, 2010, 289-334. [Download]
[4] Booth, G.G. and U.G. Gurun, “Volatility clustering and the bid-ask spread: Exchange rate behavior in early Renaissance Florence”, Journal of Empirical Finance, 2008, 131-141 [Download]
[5] Ali, A. and U.G. Gurun. 2008. “Investor sentiment, accruals anomaly, and accruals management”, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Summer 2009: 415 - 431. [Download]
[6] U.G. Gurun, A. Lerman, and J. Ronen, “Anticipatory and Implementation Effects of FIN 46 on the Behavior of Different Market Participants”, Asia Pasific Journal of Accounting and Economics, forthcoming. [Download]
[7] Do Hedge Funds Follow Post-Earnings Announcement Drift? Evidence from Quarterly Holdings (with A. Coskun), Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds, forthcoming. [Download]
[8] Financial Networks and Trading in Emerging Bond Markets (with H. Zhang and G. Booth),Journal of Financial Markets, forthcoming, [SSRN Link]
[9] Frog in the Pan: Continuous Information and Momentum (with Zhi Da and Mitch Warachka) [Download]
- R&R at Review of Financial Studies
- Presented at 2012 American Finance Association meeting
- Presented at 2011 Review of Financial Studies Cavalcade
[10] Sell Side Debt Analysts and Market Efficiency (with Stan Markov and Rick Johnston) [Download][14] A Project-Level Analysis of Value Creation in Firms (with Jonathan Cohn and Rabih Moussawi) [SSRN Link][11] Resident Networks and Firm Trade (with Lauren Cohen and Chris Malloy) [Download]
- R&R at Management Science
[12] Advertising Expensive Mortgages (with Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru) [Download]
- Presented at 2012 NBER- International Trade Conference
- To be Presented at 2013 RFS Cavelcade
[13] Price of Publicity [Download]
- To be Presented at 2013 NBER- Behavioral Finance
- Presented at 2013 American Finance Association meeting
- Insitutional Investor magazine interview
- Presented at University of Texas at Austin, March 2011
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas, January 2010
- Presented at 2010 FMA meeting
- Presented at 2013 American Finance Association meeting
- Presented at University of Texas at Austin
[15] Substitution between Sources of Finance in Consumer Capital Markets, with Alex Butler (Rice University) and Jess Cornaggia (Indiana University) [SSRN Link][16] The Impact of Restatements on Bank Loans: Evidence from the Supply Chain (with Rebecca Files) [SSRN Link]
- Presented at 2012 American Law and Economics Association meeting
- Presented at the 2011 NBER Summer Institute- Household Finance
- Presented at the 2011 Western Finance Association meeting
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas, July 2009 *
- Presented at Indiana University, March 2010 *
- Presented at the 2011 American Accounting Association meeting
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas
- Presented at 2010 FARS Conference*
- Presented at 2010 Lone Star conference*
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas*
- Presented at Washington University at Saint Louis *
(*) presented by coauthor
TEACHING
Courses taught at University of Texas at Dallas: Financial Statement Analysis (MBA Level); Financial Information Management (Undergraduate Level)
Courses taught at University of Texas at Austin: Investments (Undergraduate Level)
Courses taught at Michigan State University: Investments (Undergraduate Level), Corporate Finance (Undergraduate Level)
SERVICE
Service on dissertation committees
Co-Chair: Ali Coskun, University of Texas at Dallas, 2009. Initial placement at Bogazici University; Ting He (University of Wisconsin-Parkside)
Member: Ozer Asdemir (2006); Mine Ozer(2006); Him-Lai Lillian Chan (2007); Jiangxia Liu (2007); Xinmei Xie (2010); Musa Subasi (2012)
Service to the profession
Associate Editor for Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money
Ad Hoc Referee for Journal of Finance; Journal of Accounting Research; Review of Financial Studies; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Management Science; qJournal of Financial Econometrics; Review of Accounting Studies; Decision Sciences; International Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Accounting; Journal of Futures Markets; Applied Financial Economics; Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money; Journal of Empirical Finance; The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
PERSONAL
Married and have two little daughters