Michael J. Schill
· Professor of Business AdministrationUniversity of Virginia · Finance
Active 1998–2026
About
Michael J. Schill is the Sponsors Professor of Business Administration in Darden's Finance area at the UVA Darden School of Business. His research spans empirical questions in corporate finance, investments, and international finance, and has been published in major finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. His recent research investigates the post-deal returns of acquiring firms, asset-growth effects in stock returns, and gains to foreign stock exchange listing and foreign currency borrowing. Schill is the author of over 30 case studies and technical notes and co-authored the case textbook 'Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation,' published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. He teaches the core finance course in the full-time MBA program at Darden and the Financial Trading elective. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a management consultant with Marakon Associates in Stamford, Connecticut, and London. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Economics
- Computer Science
- Mechanics
- Financial economics
- Law
- Monetary economics
- Business
- Geography
- Physics
- Finance
Selected publications
Rocksmith Machine Tools: Artificial Intelligence and the Dividend Decision
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingDarden Capital Management 2025: The Cavalier Fund
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01
preprintOpen accessSenior authorManagement of Financial Policy Decisions: Capital Structure Policy (Spanish)
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingShamrock Capital: Pricing the Masters of Taylor Swift (Spanish)
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingNot Out of Thin Air: A Primer on the Sources and Uses of Cash
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingSSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingNonlinearities and a pecking order in cross-border investment
Journal of Banking & Finance · 2024-06-12 · 1 citations
articleSSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingSSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingSSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 33 shared
Sergei Sarkissian
McGill University
- 12 shared
Sandra Mortal
University of Alabama
- 11 shared
Robert F. Bruner
- 7 shared
Matthew R. McBrady
University of Virginia
- 6 shared
Wayne E. Ferson
- 5 shared
Francis E. Warnock
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 4 shared
Michael J. Cooper
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- 4 shared
Elizabeth Shumadine
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