Faculty Profile

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Ekkehart BOEHMER

Full-time Faculty

Professor of Finance

Lee Kong Chian School of Business
LKCSB

Education

1991 Ph.D. in Finance, University of Georgia
1988 M.A. in Economics, University of Georgia

Current Position(s) Held

2015 - Now Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2017 - 2020 Keppel Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2014 - 2015 Visiting Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Runner up, Review of Financial Studies Best Paper Award, 2014.
  • Monetary Authority of Singapore, FRC grant to study high frequency trading, 2013.
  • Winner, Fama/DFA Prize for the best paper in the  Journal of Financial Economics, 2011. 

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

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  • Potential pilot problems: Treatment spillovers in financial regulatory experiments, with Charles Jones and Xiaoyan Zhang. Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming, 2019. Presented at the AFA meeting 2016.
  • The competitive landscape of high-frequency trading firms, with Dan Li and Gideon Saar. Review of Financial Studies 31, 2018, 2227–2276. Presented at the AFA meeting 2017.
  • Covering shorts, with Truong Duong and Zsuzsa Huszar. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 53, 2018, 723-748.
  • Short interest, returns, and fundamentals, with Ferhat Akbas, Bilal Erturk, and Sorin Sorescu. Financial Management 46, 2016, 455-486.
  • Capital structure, derivatives and equity market quality, with Sudheer Chava and Heather Tookes. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 50, 2016, 509-541.
  • Shackling short sellers: The 2008 shorting ban, with Charles Jones and Xiaoyan Zhang.  Review of Financial Studies 26, 2013, 1363-1400. Lead article. Selected “Best Paper” at the 2009 University of Michigan / Mitsui conference on “Financial (In) Stability.”
  • Short selling and the price discovery process, with Julie Wu. Review of Financial Studies 26, 2013, 287-322. Lead article. Runner up, RFS Best Paper Award 2014.
  • The good news in short interest, with Brad Jordan and Zsuzsa Huszar.  Journal of Financial Economics 96, 2010, 80-97. Fama/DFA Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Financial Economics.
  • Institutional investors and the informational efficiency of prices, with Eric Kelley.  Review of Financial Studies 22, 2009, 3563-3594.