COXACHIEVEMENTS
Faculty & Staff
Achievements Ellen Parker Allen, clinical professor of information technology and operations management (ITOM), received the Delta Sigma Pi Award for outstanding BBA faculty.
ITOM assistant professors, Sreekumar Bhaskaran, Karthik Ramachandran, and John Semple, Charles Wyly Professor of Management Information Sciences and department chair, had the paper “A Dynamic Inventory Model With the Right of Refusal” accepted for publication in Management Science. Neil Bhattacharya, associate professor of accounting, was invited to the National University of Singapore Business School in September where he presented a paper titled “Direct and Mediated Associations among Earnings Quality, Information Asymmetry and Cost of Capital.” He also presented a research seminar to the faculty and doctoral students of the NUS Business School and taught a class to the accounting and finance doctoral students on applying empirical microstructure tools in answering accounting disclosure questions. In October, Bhattacharya was invited for an academic research presentation at the University of Georgia. In November, he attended an invitationonly conference organized by the accounting department at the Stern School of Business at NYU.
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Ed Fox, director of the JCPenney Center for Retail Excellence and associate professor, delivered the keynote address to the third Annual Latin American Retailing Congress in October in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jeffrey Harris, visiting professor and James M. Collins Chair in Finance, had the paper “Who Drove and Burst the Tech Bubble?” accepted by the Journal of Finance. He participated as panel moderator at IEA/ IEF/OPEC meeting on crude oil prices in London. He presented “Speculators, Prices and Market Volatility” at the University of Mississippi and the University of Delaware. He also presented “In the Aftermath of the Crisis: Evolution in Financial Regulation and Policy” at the National Association of Business Economists in Denver, CO. Harris was named to the program committee for the 2011 Western Finance Association.
Dan Howard, marketing professor, and Roger Kerin, Harold C. Simmons Distinguished Professor, had two papers accepted for publication in 2011. “Name Similarity Effects on Message Processing and Persuasion” will be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and “Changing Your Mind About Seeing a Brand That You Never Saw” was accepted for publication in Psychology and Marketing.
Dwight Lee, William J. O’Neil Chair of Global Markets and Freedom, had the article “The Political Economy of Morality: Political Pretense vs. Market Performance” published in December by the Library of Economics and Liberty. His co-authored paper “The Moral Case for Markets” is forthcoming in the winter 2011 issue of Cato Journal. “Welfare Costs of Monopoly” is forthcoming in Managerial and Decision Economics. “Happiness, Adaptation and Decreasing Marginal Utility of Income” is forthcoming in The Journal of Private Enterprise. Lee edited the book A Maverick’s Defense of Freedom: Selected Writings and Speeches of Benjamin A. Rogge, which was published by Liberty Fund Press in the summer of 2010. His book Microeconomics for MBAs: The Economic Way of Thinking for Managers was published by Cambridge University Press, Second Edition 2010. His book Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why it Matters to Global Capitalism was reviewed by The Freeman in September.
Assistant professors of accounting, Zining Li and Ram Venkataraman, had the paper “Causes and Consequences of Goodwill Impairment Losses” accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting Studies. The paper was joint work with professors at the University of Minnesota.
Spring 2011