Dr. Praveen Kumar, Cullen Distinguished Chaired Professor of Finance, Chairperson of the Department of Finance, Executive Director of the Gutierrez Energy Management Institute

Bauer School of Business, Department of Finance

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• Areas of expertise

  • Corporate Finance
  • Real Options
  • Investments
  • Industrial Organization
  • Contract Theory

• Awards

  • Editor-in-Chief, Corporate Governance: An International Review, January 2013
  • University of Houston System Research and Scholarship Excellence Award, 2010.
  • University of Houston System Teaching Excellence Award, 2003.
  • Track chair, Annual Meetings of the Financial Management Association, 2010.
  • Chicago Board of Trade Award for the Best Paper on Options and Futures, Annual Meetings of the Western Finance Association, 1991.
  • McGraw-Hill Best Paper in Finance Award, Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Finance Association, 2010.
  • Chapa-O’Quinn Lectures on International Corporate Governance, Monterey Institute, Mexico (ITESM) and the UH Law Cente, 2002.
  • Teaching Award for “Excellence in Classroom,” GSIA, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1987.
  • Runners-up for the Merton Miller Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Business, 1995.
  • Nominee for the Smith-Kline Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Finance, 1993.
  • Bauer Fellow, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, 2000-2003.
  • Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Scholarship Prize, Princeton University, 1976.
  • E. Dewitt Scholarship Prize, Princeton University, 1978.

• Publications

  • "The Product Market Effects of Hedge Fund Activism," (with H. Aslan), Journal of Financial Economics, 119, 226-248, 2016
  • "Capital Investment, Innovative Capacity, and Stock Returns,'' (with D. Li), Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, 2015.
  • "Boom and Gloom," (with P. Povel et al.), Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, 2015.
  • "CEO entrenchment and Corporate Hedging: Evidence from the Oil and Gas Industry," (with R. Rabinovitch), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48, 887-917, 2013.
  • "Information Manipulation and Rational Investment Booms and Busts," (with N. Langberg), Journal of Monetary Economics, 60, 408-425, 2013.
  • "Strategic Ownership Structure and the Cost of Debt," (with H. Aslan), Review of Financial Studies, 25, 2257-2299, 2012.
  • "Voluntary Disclosures, Corporate Control, and Investment," (with N. Langberg and K. Sivaramakrishnan), Journal of Accounting Research, 50, 1041-1076, 2012.
  • "Lemons or Cherries? Growth Opportunities and Market Temptations in Going Public and Private," (with H. Aslan), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 46, 489-526, 2011.
  • "Managerial Agency and Bond Covenants," (with S. Chava and A. Warga), Review of Financial Studies, 23, 1120-1148, 2010.
  • "Estimation Risk, Information, and the Conditional CAPM: Theory and Evidence," (with S. Sorescu, R. D. Boehme, and B. Danielsen), Review of Financial Studies, 2008 (Lead Article).
  • "Corporate Fraud and Investment Distortions in Efficient Capital Markets," (with N. Langberg), Rand Journal of Economics, 2008.
  • "Who Monitors the Monitor? The Effect of Board Independence on Executive Compensation and Firm Value," (with K. Sivaramakrishnan), Review of Financial Studies, 2008.
  • "Optimal Patenting and Licensing of Financial Innovations, " (with S. Turnbull), Management Science, 2008.
  • "Takeovers, Market Monitoring, and International Corporate Governance," (with L. Ramchand), December 2007, Rand Journal of Economics, 2008.
  • "Agency Costs and Corporate Investment: The Role of Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance," (with S. Kang and H. Lee), Journal of Business, 2006.
  • "Intertemporal Price-Quality Competition and the Coase Conjecture," Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2006.
  • "Managerial Entrenchment and Payout Policy," (with A. Hu), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2004.
    

   More publications available in CV below.

• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • NSF Grant, 1990-1992.
  • Sloan Foundation Grant, 1995-1997.
  • Faculty Development Grant, CMU, 1987-1989.
  • Faculty Development Grant, CMU, 1992- 1994.
  • CBA Summer Research Grant, University of Houston, 1998.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Praveen Kumar CV

• Contact information

  Melcher Hall, Room 220H

  Phone: 713-743-4770

  pkumar@uh.edu