Grants, Prizes, Fellowships, Visiting Positions, Etc.

  • Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, 1987, for “The Long Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings”
  • MBA Faculty Fellowship, 1990
  • Smith Breeden Prize for the best article in the Journal of Finance, 1991
  • MBA Professor of the Year (elective courses), 1992
  • Commerce Alumni Association Graduate Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 1993
  • Chicago Board of Trade Competitive Research Award, 1993
  • Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, March 1994
  • Outstanding Paper Award for the best article in the Journal of Financial Research, 1996.
  • MBA Professor of the Year (elective courses), 2000
  • Distinguished Scholar Award, Southern Finance Association, 2001
  • University of Florida Research Foundation professorship award, 2002-2004 and 2012-2014
  • McGraw-Hill Best Paper in Corporate Finance prize, 2002 FMA meetings
  • UOB Visiting Professor, Nanyang Tech (Singapore), May-June 2003
  • Bertil Danielsson Visiting Professor, Sweden, April-May 2004
  • Visiting Professor, INSEAD (Singapore), April 2005
  • Visiting Scholar, Indiana University, September 2006
  • Visiting Scholar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, September 2006
  • Visiting Scholar, Singapore Management University, July 2007
  • Yu-Ziang Advanced Workshop in Finance and Economics, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan July 2007
  • Visiting Professor, Aarhus Business School, Denmark, April 2008
  • Distinguished Lecturer, KAIST (Seoul, Korea), September 2008
  • Distinguished Scholar Award, Eastern Finance Association, 2009
  • Visiting Professor, Swiss Finance Institute (Lugano), June 2009
  • Winner of the William F. Sharpe Prize for the best article in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2009 and 2013.
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Bergamo, May 2010
  • Winner of the Jensen Prize for the best paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2010.
  • Visiting Professor, CEMS, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 2010
  • Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, March 2011
  • Visiting Professor, FIRN, Brisbane, Australia, June 2011
  • Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 1998, October 2009, June 2010
  • Visiting Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 2011, August 2013, February 2016, May 2017
  • Kauffman Foundation grant for Post-IPO Employment and Revenue Growth for U.S. IPOsJune 1996-2010, 2011-2012
  • Fellow, Financial Management Association, 2012
  • Winner, Readers’ Choice Best Paper Award for European Financial Management, 2012
  • Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua SEM, 2015
  • Visiting Scholar, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2015
  • Winner, Editor’s Choice Best Paper Award for the best article in The Financial Review, 2015
  • Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, June 2017