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Biography
Dr. Jeff Jones' primary research interests are in the area of banking and financial institutions, specifically the impact of opacity on the valuation of banks and systemic financial crises.
He has taught a wide variety of finance courses, such as Investments, Portfolio Management, Personal Financial Management, Derivatives and Alternative Investments, Fixed Income Securities, Financial Markets & Institutions, Bank Management and Corporate Finance. He has also taught courses outside of finance, including Business Foundations, Principles of Accounting and Basic Economic Theory.
Industry Expertise (3)
Accounting
Business Services
Education/Learning
Areas of Expertise (11)
Business
Finance
Banking
Financial Analysis
Financial Research
Accounting
Econometrics
Investments
Financial Modeling
Higher Education
Public Speaking
Accomplishments (3)
Research Stipend (professional)
2011 Drury University, Breech School of Business
Summer Research Grant (professional)
2007 Drury University, Breech School of Business
Outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching Award (professional)
2005 University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton College of Business
Education (3)
University of Arkansas: Ph.D., Business Administration - Finance 2008
Drury University: M.B.A., Business Administration 2003
Accounting Emphasis
Drury University: B.A., Business Administration, Economics and Accounting 1997
Affiliations (5)
- CFA Society of St. Louis
- CFA Institute
- Institute of Management Accountants
- American Finance Association
- Southern Finance Association
Links (2)
Languages (1)
- English
Media Appearances (6)
Gender wage gap plateaus — now what?
Springfield Business Journal print
2017-02-13
Jeff Jones, assistant professor of finance at Missouri State University, comments of the gender wage gap issue.
Hurdles mount for Bass Pro’s buyout of Cabela’s
Springfield Business Journal print
2017-07-04
Jeff Jones, assistant professor of finance at Missouri State University, provides his insight on Bass Pro's buyout of Cabela's.
Exploring master limited partnerships
Springfield News-Leader print
2015-11-21
Jeff Jones, assistant professor of finance at Missouri State University, shares his expertise on an investment alternative icalled a master limited partnership, or MLP.
Why Bass Pro would court Cabela’s
Springfield Business Journal print
2015-11-16
Retailers aren’t talking, and the silence might show their hand.
How to survive the volatility of financial markets
Springfield News-Leader print
2015-10-31
Jeff Jones, assistant professor of finance at Missouri State University, provides ways to deal with the volatility of financial markets.
Understanding asset securitization
Springfield News-Leader print
2015-08-22
Jeff Jones, assistant professor of finance at Missouri State University, shares information about asset securitization.
Articles (5)
Black cats or black swans? Outliers, seasonality in return distribution properties, and the Halloween effect
Managerial Finance
2014 The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which outliers have persisted in augmenting the Halloween effect over time and to offer an econometric test of seasonality in return skewness that might provide a partial explanation for the Halloween effect...
Valuation and Systemic Risk Consequences of Bank Opacity
Journal of Banking & Finance
2013 We examine the effects of opacity on bank valuation and synchronicity in bank equity returns over the years 2000–2006 prior to the 2007 financial crisis. As expected, investments in opaque assets are more profitable than investments in transparent assets, and taking profitability into account, have larger valuation discounts relative to transparent assets...
Do Dividend Initiations Signal a Reduction in Risk? Evidence from the Option Market
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
2012 We investigate whether dividends convey information about the risk of a company by examining the reaction of implied volatility in the option market to the announcement of a dividend initiation...
Opaque Banks, Price Discovery, and Financial Instability
Journal of Financial Intermediation
2012 Opacity fosters price contagion that exacerbates the speculative cycles of bubbles and crashes that create financial instability. We find that banks with larger investments in opaque assets benefitted more from intra-industry revaluations associated with announcements of mergers in the period 2000–2006...
An Economic Analysis of Protect Certificates: An Option Pricing Approach
The Banking and Finance Review
2011 We introduce and describe a new financial product referred to as Protect Certificates and show that the payoff of a Protect Certificate can be duplicated by the combination of a zero coupon bond, call options on the underlying asset and put options on the underlying asset...
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