Upload your resume. PhdFit's six research agents compare your background with faculty profiles, recent publications, lab focus, and outreach opportunities, then rank professors with evidence you can review.
Ask how her lab is extending interpretability methods into fairness audits for real-world AI systems.
Rice University · Strategic Management
Active 1999–2026
Alexander Butler is a Jesse H. Jones Professor of Finance at Rice University. His research focuses on empirical corporate finance, financial institutions, and financial markets, with particular attention to external financing decisions of firms, governments, and individuals. His work has been published in all the top finance journals, reflecting his significant contributions to the field. Prior to joining the Jones School in 2009, he was on the faculties at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of South Florida, and Louisiana State University. At Rice, he teaches courses in financial markets and corporate finance across undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and PhD programs. He holds a PhD in Finance from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Economic Analysis from Rice University.
Nepo Credit: The Effect of Borrowed Credit Histories
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01
Additive Manufacturing Letters · 2025-10-28 · 1 citations
Larry Fauver
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Ioannis Spyridopoulos
American University
James Weston
Rice University
Gustavo Grullon
Jones College
Timothy Falcon Crack
FinancePI
PhdFit ranks faculty by your research interests, methods, and publications — grounded in their actual work, not templates.
• Mechanical stress relief (MSR) via slow elastic cyclic loading for PBF-LB material • MSR retains printed metastable microstructure while relieving residual stress • High residual stress embrittles the PBF-LB Ti-6Al-4V • Residual stress has minimal influence on PBF-LB metastable β Ti-7Cr-4Sn • Ti-7Cr-4Sn deformation is affected by {332}<113> twinning and ω iso precipitates This study proposes a mechanical stress relief (MSR) process to reduce the residual stress in PBF-LB materials. It involves progressive, slow cyclic loading in the material’s elastic region. Two Ti alloys, Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-7Cr-4Sn, were chosen as model alloys and underwent MSR accordingly. Results suggest that the proposed MSR helps reduce residual stress, and its effectiveness in relieving residual stress is similar across the two alloys. However, the influence of MSR on the tensile performance is different in the two alloys, which is affected by the initial residual stress level and the material’s deformation mechanism. Ti-6Al-4V possesses high residual stress, with deformation slip being the only deformation mechanism. In contrast, Ti-7Cr-4Sn possesses relatively low residual stress, and a unique deformation mechanism involves {332}<113> twinning and ω iso precipitates. Such a unique deformation mechanism leads to crack initiation driven by twin-confined dislocation pile-up.
Mortgage Lending in Sundown Towns
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
The Growth Effects of Opening a Stock Exchange
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
Mergers, Market Power, and Operational Efficiency: Evidence from Synthetic Controls
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
Critical Finance Review · 2024-01-01 · 2 citations
We illustrate the sensitivity of two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences estimates to innocuous changes in data structure. Using the staggered rollout of state-level bank branching deregulations, three outcome variables are brought to bear on the interventions: personal income growth (a replication), house prices (new to the literature), and per capita cigarette purchases (a falsification test). Estimates are sensitive to panel length, and the data structure creates the false impression of a causal effect of the interventions on all three outcome variables. We contend that any two-way fixed effects regression using this set of interventions is at risk of generating spurious results.
A Market-based Measure of Climate Risk for Cities
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 2 citations
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01
Aging and public financing costs: Evidence from U.S. municipal bond markets
Journal of Public Economics · 2022 · 53 citations
Umit G. Gurun
Jess Cornaggia
Pennsylvania State University