Research in Finance

John Chalmers

"Managerial opportunism? Evidence from directors' and officers' insurance purchases," Journal of Finance, 2002, (with Dann; Harford)

"On the perils of security pricing by financial intermediaries: The wildcard option in transacting mutual fund shares," Journal of Finance, 2001, (with Edelen; Kadlec)

"An Empirical Study of the Amoritized Spread," Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 48, 1998, (with G. B. Kadlec)

"Default Risk Cannot Explain the Muni Puzzle: Evidence from Municipal Bonds that are Secured by U.S. Treasury Obligations," Review of Financial Studies, 1998

Transaction-cost expenditures and the relative performance of mutual funds. (with Edelen; Kadlec).

Larry Dann

"Governance and Boards of Directors in Closed-End Investment Companies," Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2003, (with Diane Del Guercio, M. Megan Partch)

"Managerial Opportunism? Evidence from Directors' and Officers' Insurance Purchases," Journal of Finance, Vol. 57, No. 2, 2002, (with John M. R. Chalmers, Jarrad Harford)

Current Projects
Corporate Takeovers and Target Firm Responses: Do White Knights Serve Target Firm Managers' Self-Interests?

Diane Del Guercio

"Governance and Boards of Directors in Closed-end Investment Companies," Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 69, 2003, (with L. Dann and M. Partch)

"The Determinants of the Flow of Funds of Managed Portfolios: Mutual Funds versus Pension Funds," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 37, 2002, (with P. Tkac)

"The Motivation and Impact of Pension Fund Activism," Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 52, 1999, (with J. Hawkins)

"The Distorting Effect of the Prudent Man Laws on Institutional Equity Investments," Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 40, 1996

"Star Power: The Effect of Morningstar Ratings on Mutual Fund Flow," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming, (with P. Tkac)

"Do Boards Pay Attention when Institutional Investor Activists ‘Just Vote No," Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming, (with L. Seery and T. Woidtke)

Current Projects
"Why Do Fund Families Pick Stocks for the Competition?" (with P. Tkac and J. Reuter)

Ali Emami

"Trade, Resources and Subsistence," The Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2003, (with R.S. Johnston)

"Unilateral Resource Management in a Two-Country General Equilibrium Model of Trade in a Renewable Fishery Resource," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 82, No. 1, 2000, (with Richard S. Johnston)
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"Immiserizing Resource Management: A Two-Country General Equilibrium Model of Trade in a Renewable Resource," American Journal of Agricultural Economics ,Selected Papers, vol. 79, no.5, 1997, (with R.S. Johnston)
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"Trade Restrictions and Trade Reversal: Lessons from the U.S.-Canada Herring Dispute," Journal of Marine Resource Economics, Vol. 9, 1994, (with L.E. Queirolo and R.S. Johnston)
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Oregon Economy.
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Current Projects
Trade, Subsistence Consumption, Compensation and Resource Management: How Are They Related?

Primary Research Areas
International Trade and Finance
Eonomics of the public accounting profession.

Roberto Gutierrez

"The Long-Lasting Momentum in Weekly Returns," Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, 2008, (with Eric Kelley)

"Momentum, Reversal, and the Trading Behaviors of Institutions," Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 10, 2007

"On the Predictability of Stock Returns in Real Time," Journal of Business, Vol. 78, 2005, (with Michael Cooper, Bill Marcum)

"Market States and Momentum," Journal of Finance, Vol. 59, 2004, (with Michael Cooper, Allaudeen Hameed)

Primary Research Areas
Asset pricing, informational efficiency of markets, and trading strategies

Woodrow Johnson

"Predictable Investment Horizons and Wealth Transfers among Mutual Fund Shareholders," Journal of Finance, 59 (5), 2004
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Current Projects
"Who Monitors the Mutual Fund Manager, New or Old Shareholders?"
"How Individual Mutual Fund Shareholders Trade through Time"
"How Taxes Affect Mutual Fund Shareholders' Trades around Fund Distributions"

Wayne Mikkelson

"An Investigation of the Gains from Specialized Equity Claims," Financial Management, 32, 2003, (with Audra Boone and David Haushalter)

"Do Persistent Large Cash Reserves Hinder Performance?," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 38, 2003, (with M. Partch)

"The Design of Financial Policies in Corporate Spinoffs," Review of Financial Studies, 16, 2003, (with V. Mehrotra and M. Partch)

"Ownership and Operating Performance of Companies that Go Public," Journal of Financial Economics, 44, 1997, (with M. Partch and K. Shah)

"The Decline of Takeovers and Disciplinary Managerial Turnover," Journal of Financial Economics, 44, 1997, (with M. Partch)

Current Projects
"Do Favorable Market Conditions Lead to Costly Decisions to Go Public?" with Aziz Alimov, University of Arizona

Jonathan Reuter

"Are IPO Allocations for Sale? Evidence from Mutual Funds," Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, No. 5, 2006

"Do Ads Influence Editors? Advertising and Bias in the Financial Media," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, No. 1, 2006, (with Eric Zitzewitz)

Philip Romero

"Schwarznegger Budget Pulls a Rabbit out of the Hat," Los Angeles Times, 2004

Gov. Kulongoski's To-Do List. Brainstrom, 2002

Dean's Message--Continuous Improvement. , 2002

"Bush's Energy Plan May Further Split the GOP," The Oregonian, 2001

"Surrendering Sovereignty to Sacramento: State-Local Fiscal Relations During the 1990s," California Policy Options 2000, Dukakis, Michael, Mitchell and Dan, eds, 2000

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