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Jon A. Garfinkel

Professor
 Waugh Business Faculty Research Fellow
Finance
S262  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994		 Ph: 319-335-0943
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E-mail: jon-garfinkel@uiowa.edu
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Academic History

  • PhD in Finance, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1994
  • BA in Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 1988

Expertise

  • Corporate Financing Behavior
  • Corporate Investment Behavior
  • Divergent Investor Opinions
  • Insider trading

Awards

  • MBA Core Teacher of the year Award, 2013
  • Executive MBA Best Teacher Award, 2012
  • MBA Core Teacher of the Year Award, 2012
  • Best Paper, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation, February 2012
  • Best MBA Finance Elective Teacher, 2011
  • Collegiate Teaching Award, Tippie College of Business, 2011
  • Executive MBA Best Teacher Award, 2011
  • Named Waugh Business Faculty Research Fellow, 2008
  • Dean's Recognition of Top Quartile ACE Evaluations , 2007
  • Dean's Teaching Award, 2005
  • Named Dana C. Ramundt Insurance Fellow, 2005

Selected Publications

Working Papers

        Prior Positions

        • Visiting Academic Fellow, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, August 1998 - August 1999
        • Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, August 1994 - August 1998

        Review and Editorial Work

        • Referee, Financial Analysts Journal
        • Referee, Financial Management
        • Referee, Financial Review
        • Referee, International Review of Finance
        • Referee, Pacific Basin Finance Journal
        • Referee, Review of Accounting Studies
        • Referee, The Accounting Review
        • Referee, The Journal of Accounting and Economics
        • Referee, The Journal of Banking and Finance
        • Referee, The Journal of Corporate Finance
        • Referee, The Journal of Finance
        • Referee, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
        • Referee, The Journal of Financial Economics
        • Referee, The Journal of Financial Intermediation
        • Referee, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
        • Referee, The Review of Economics and Finance
        • Referee, The Review of Financial Studies
        • Referee, RGC Hong Kong Grant Agency, March 2010

        Professional Affiliations

        • Associate Editor, Financial Review
        • Associate Editor, The Financial Review, February 2013 - current
        • Other, A First Course in Corporate Finance, December 2007 - January 2008

        Presentations

        • The Effect of Asymmetric Information on Product Market Outcomes, TCU, Fort Worth, TX, February 2013
        • The Effect of Asymmetric Information on Product Market Outcomes, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, February 2013
        • The Effect of Asymmetric Information on Product Market Outcomes, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, January 2013
        • Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure Decisions, FIRS, Financial Institutions Research Society, Minneapolis, MN, May 2012
        • Houses, Banks and Financial Markets: Why the Crisis this Time?, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 2010
        • A Decade of Living Dangerously: The Causes and Consequences of the Mortgage and Financial Crises, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, January 2009
        • Interactions between investment and financing, and their influence on firm value, Financial Management Association, Dallas, TX, October 2008
        • A Decade of Living Dangerously: The Causes and Consequences of the Mortgage and Financial Crises, Subprime Housing Crisis Symposium, Iowa City, IA, October 2008
        • Long-run Underperformance Following External Finance Issues?, American Finance Association, ASSA, New Orleans, January 2008
        • Long-run Underperformance Following External Finance Issues?, Aukland University, Massey University, Victoria University Wellington, June 2007
        • Long-run Underperformance Following External Finance?, Financial Management Assocation meetings, Salt Lake City, October 2006
        • Long-run Underperformance Following External Finance Issues?, Iowa State University Presentation, April 2006
        • Long-run Underperformance Following External Finance Issues?, Florida International University presentation, April 2006
        • Measuring Investors' Opinion Divergence, Financial Management Association meetings, October 2005
        • Are Bank Loans Special? Evidence on the Post-announcement performance of bank borrowers., SUNY - Binghamton, December 2004
        • Volume, Opinion Divergence and Returns: A Study of Post - Earnings Announcement Drift, American Finance Association Meetings, January 2004
        • Volume, Opinion Divergence and Returns: A Study of Post - Earnings Announcement Drift, Texas A&M University, November 2002
        • The Long ? Run Performance of Firms Following Loan Announcements, Financial Management Association meetings, October 2002
        • The Long ? Run Performance of Firms Following Loan Announcements, American Finance Association meetings, January 2002
        • Rational Markets, Divergent Investor Opinions and Post ? Earnings Announcement Drift, Financial Management Association meetings, October 2001
        • Market Structure and Trader Anonymity: An Analysis of Insider Trading, Invited Presentation at: Univ. of Iowa, Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Emory Univ., January 1999
        • Segmented Capital Markets, Financial Flexibility and Bank Value, Invited Presentation at: Univ. of Delaware, Federal Reserve Board, September 1998
        • The Cost of Market versus Regulatory Discipline in Banking, Southern Finance Association meetings, November 1996
        • Market Structure and Trader Anonymity: An Analysis of Insider Trading, Western Finance Association meetings, June 1996
        • New Evidence on the Effects of Federal Regulations on Insider Trading: The Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act (ITSFEA), Financial Management Association meetings, October 1994
        • The Effect of Lender Identity on a Borrowing Firm's Equity Return, American Finance Association meetings, January 1994
        • The Importance of Post-Event Insider Trading, Invited Presentation at: Univ. of New Hampshire, Purdue Univ., Loyola Univ. Chicago, Federal Reserve Board, January 1994
        • Insider Trading and Executive Compensation, Financial Management Assocation meetings, October 1993
        • IPO Underpricing, Insider Selling and Subsequent Equity Offerings: Is Underpricing a Signal of Quality?", Financial Management Association meetings, October 1991

        Committees and Professional Service

        • Computing and Learning Technologies
        • Financial Management Association Rvw Comm
        • Henry Fund Application Review Committee
        • SFS Cavalcade Review Committee
        • Standards 4 Success
        • Midwest Finance Association, 2012-current
        • Kline Capital Group, Clean Tech Fund Advisory Board, 2009-current
        • FRIC (Funded Retirement and Insurance Committee), 2007-current
        • Search Committee for Dean of Tippie College of Business, 2011-2012
        • Search Committee for Director of Executive MBA Programs, 2011
        • Faculty Senate, 2008-2011
        • Faculty Senate Officer (Secretary), 2010-2011
        • Corporate Finance Track Chair Midwest Finance Association Meetings, 2010-2011
        • Elected Faculty Council, 2007-2009
        • Recruiting, 2006-2008
        • Outcomes Assessment Planning, 2006-2007

        Additional Training

        • NTITLE, 2000