Paul Asquith
· Gordon Y Billard Professor of FinanceMassachusetts Institute of Technology · Finance
Active 1981–2021
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About
Paul Asquith is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He specializes in corporate finance and is recognized as a media source for the field, with expertise in mergers, dividend policy, financial distress, and market efficiency. An empiricist, he investigates applied problems using real-world data. His recent research examines the effects of transparency on markets, including the impact of mandatory transparency requirements on market volume and volatility, as well as the effects of bond issuances and market design of short selling in equity markets. Asquith's work contributes to understanding market behavior and financial market design, and he has been recognized by students with 13 Teaching Excellence Awards.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Business
- Political Science
- Finance
- Development economics
- Economic growth
- Macroeconomics
- International trade
- International economics
Selected publications
Short interest, institutional ownership, and stock returns
Journal of Financial Economics · 2005-08-04 · 1005 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingInformation content of equity analyst reports
Journal of Financial Economics · 2004-08-28 · 960 citations
articleOpen access1st authorPerformance pricing in bank debt contracts
Journal of Accounting and Economics · 2005-08-31 · 451 citations
article1st authorShort Interest, Institutional Ownership, and Stock Returns
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2004-01-01 · 373 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingDSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2011-09-16 · 199 citations
bookOpen access
Frequent coauthors
- 16 shared
Andrea S. Au
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- 14 shared
Parag A. Pathak
- 12 shared
Michael B. Mikhail
University of Illinois Chicago
- 10 shared
Stella Opoku-Owusu
DOBA Business School
- 9 shared
Mohamed Salem
Australian College of Kuwait
- 9 shared
Anita Maček
- 9 shared
Ignatius Setyawan
Tarumanagara University
- 9 shared
O. Garcia
DOBA Business School
Labs
Awards & honors
- 13 Teaching Excellence Awards
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