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, forthcoming. [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]
Working Papers
- Under revision for Review of Financial Studies
- Presented at 2012 American Finance Association meeting
- Presented at Review of Financial Studies 2011 Cavalcade
- Presented at Depaul University - People&Money Conference*
- Presented at INSEAD*
- To be 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
- To be presented at 2013 American Finance Association meeting
- Presented at University of Texas at Austin
- Under invited third round review at Journal of Financial Markets
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas
- Presented at 2007 European Financial Management Association Meeting
- Presented at Istanbul Stock Exchange, 2007 June
- Presented at 2008 China International Conference in Finance*
[11] Substitution between Sources of Finance in Consumer Capital Markets, with Alex Butler (Rice University) and Jess Cornaggia (Indiana University) [SSRN Link][12] The Impact of Restatements on Bank Loans: Evidence from the Supply Chain (with R. Files) [SSRN Link]
- To be 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 Ohio State*
- Presented at New York University*
- Presented at University of Colorado*
- Presented at Georgetown University*
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas*
- Presented at Washington University at Saint Louis *
- Presented at University of Texas at Dallas*
- Presented at 2010 European AAA meeting *
(*) 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 (in progress)
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 Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal 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