Shane A Johnson

Biography

Prof. Johnson holds the Thomas W. Leland Memorial Chair in Finance and the Wells Fargo/Mervin Peters/George Nelson/Heep Foundation Professorship of Finance. His research focuses on corporate finance and banking. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Banking & Finance and the Journal of Financial Research.

Click here for research papers at my SSRN page

Selected publications:

CEO Optimism and Forced Turnover, (with C. Campbell, M. Gallmeyer, J. Rutherford, and B. Stanley), Jounral of Financial Economics, 2011.

A Reexamination of Corporate Governance and Equity Prices, (with T. Moorman and S. Sorescu), Review of Financial Studies, 2009. See SSRN or RFS website for updated results (through 2007) for this paper.

Managerial Compensation and Corporate Fraud: The Sources of Incentives Matter, (with H. Ryan and Y. Tian), Review of Finance, 2009.

Dividend Policy, Signaling, and Discounts on Closed-End Funds, (with J.C. Lin and K. Song), Journal of Financial Economics, September 2006.

Debt Maturity and the Effects of Growth Opportunities and Liquidity Risk on Leverage, Review of Financial Studies, Spring 2003.

The Impact of Specialist Firm Acquisitions on Market Quality (with B. Hatch), Journal of Financial Economics, October 2002.

The Value and Incentive Effects of Non-traditional Executive Stock Options, (with Y. Tian), Journal of Financial Economics, July 2000.

Indexed Executive Stock Options, (with Y. Tian), Journal of Financial Economics, July 2000.

A Reexamination of the Motives and Gains in Joint Ventures, (with M. Houston), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 2000.

The Effect of Bank Debt on Optimal Capital Structure, Financial Management, Spring 1998.

An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Corporate Debt Ownership Structure, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 1997.

Dividend Payout and the Valuation Effects of Bond Announcements, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, September 1995.