Finance and Financial Management Services at Baylor University

19 faculty and 0 courses in Finance and Financial Management Services at Baylor University.

Faculty

• Michael Stegemoller, Harriette L. and Walter G. Lacy Jr. Chair of Banking and Finance; Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “What Do Returns to Acquiring Firms Tell Us? Evidence from Firms That Make Many Acquisitions” (2002) · 1,735 citations
• Soku K. Byoun, Professor; Carr P. Collins Endowed Chair of Finance h-index 13
  Capital structure Cost of Capital Bond Ratings Human capital Selected Publications Byoun, Soku , 2008, How and When Do Firms Adjust Their Capital Structures toward Targets? Journal of Finance 63, . Byoun, Soku , 2004, Stock Perform
  Notable: “How and When Do Firms Adjust Their Capital Structures toward Targets?” (2008) · 610 citations
• Shane Underwood, Pat and Thomas R. Powers Chair in Investment Management; Professor h-index 12
  Center on institutional investing. Underwood serves as the organizer of the Christian Finance Faculty Association and is passionate about helping Baylor students see the world of investments and financial markets through a Christian lens. E
  Notable: “The Relative Informational Efficiency of Stocks and Bonds: An Intraday Analysis” (2009) · 139 citations
• Andrew L. Detzel, Professor of Finance and Mayo McBride Professor h-index 11
  Asset Pricing Macro-finance Return forecasting Capital market frictions Volatility Selected Publications Model Comparison with Transaction Costs, with Robert Novy-Marx and Mihail Velikov, Journal of Finance , June 2023. The Cross-Section of
  Notable: “The Asset-Pricing Implications of Government Economic Policy Uncertainty” (2015) · 1,366 citations
• Antonio Macias, Department Chair; Associate Professor h-index 9
  Empirical corporate finance, in particular mergers and acquisitions and intangible assets Selected Publications Macias , A. J., Rau P. R., & Stouraitis, A. (2025). Solving Serial Acquirer Puzzles. Review of Corporate Finance Studies , V
  Notable: “Intangible assets and capital structure” (2020) · 106 citations
• David Dicks, Frank S. Groner Memorial Chair of Finance; Associate Professor h-index 6
  Es on corporate governance, executive compensation, innovation, systemic risk, insurance, and decision making under uncertainty. His research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy , the Review of Financial Studies , and the
  Notable: “Executive Compensation and the Role for Corporate Governance Regulation” (2012) · 139 citations
• Qinxi Wu, Associate Professor h-index 4
  Es on empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, Fintech, and corporate innovation. Education 2017 – PhD, Finance, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2011 – Master, Quantitative and Computational Finance, Georgia Institute of Tec
  Notable: “How Valuable Is FinTech Innovation?” (2018) · 764 citations
• Hwanki Brian Kim, Assistant Professor of Finance h-index 3
  Es on corporate finance, corporate governance, and institutional investors. His work has studied investment decisions within a corporate organization as well as firm capital structure and its value implications, which has been published in
  Notable: “Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis” (2015) · 340 citations
• Pil-Seng Lee, Assistant Professor h-index 3
  Corporate Finance Institutional Investors Family Firm Competition ESG
• Joshua Thornton, Assistant Professor of Finance h-index 2
  Notable: “Friends with Benefits: Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior” (2024) · 4 citations
• Jonathan F. Handy, Clinical Associate Professor; Finance Undergraduate Program Director h-index 1
  Pedagogical Improvement Financial Literacy and Wellness General Investments, particularly as it relates to Practitioners and Wealth Management Corporate and Behavioral Finance Selected Publications Handy, J. & Macey, R. (2024). Not Your
  Notable: “Anxiety-Like Behavior in Adolescent Rats Following Maternal Separation and Chronic Cocaine Exposure” (2019) · 1 citations
• Ryan C. Y. Lee, Assistant Professor of Finance h-index 1
• Brian Young, Clinical Associate Professor
  Executive Compensation Selected Publications John Bizjak, Swaminathan Kalpathy, Zhichuan Frank Li, Brian Young , The Choice of Peers for Relative Performance Evaluation in Executive Compensation, Review of Finance , Volume 26, Issue 5, Sept
• Erik H. Davidson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance
  Behavioral Finance Investor Decision-Making Investment Choice Architecture Digital Investment Advising / Robo Advisors Socially Responsible / Environmental Social Governance Investing Selected Publications Davidson, E. & Freeman, K. (20
• Mayar Sefidgaran, Assistant Professor
• Melissa Landrum, Office Manager
• Shuting (Sophia) Hu, Associate Professor
  Empirical corporate finance. Her work covers various topics, including corporate policies related to legislative and regulatory changes, executive compensation and characteristics, fintech disruption, firm innovation, financial intermedi
• Steven Diedrich, Executive Director, Baylor Angel Network
• Tianyi Qu, Assistant Professor

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.