Awards & Recognition
★2026 Fellow of American Finance Association (highest academic finance honor)
★President of Financial Management Association (2014-15)
★Smith Breeden Prize (1991) for best Journal of Finance paper
★Jensen Prize (2010) for equity offerings research
★Top 2% most influential scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier ranking)
★Career impact above 99.8th percentile in finance field
Notable Facts
→Known globally as 'Mr. IPO' for groundbreaking IPO research
→Over 61,000 academic citations - among most cited finance researchers
→Created and maintains world's premier IPO database used by researchers globally
→Joseph B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Emeritus at University of Florida
→PhD from University of Chicago, studied under 8 Nobel Prize winners
→Transitioned to emeritus status 2024, now directs IPO Initiative
→Expert witness for government agencies and law firms
→Frequent keynote speaker at academic and practitioner conferences worldwide
→Research has profoundly influenced both academic scholarship and industry practice