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Lee Biggerstaff

Armco Alumni Professor & Associate Professor

Finance


Lee Biggerstaff

Contact Information

Office Hours

  • On Leave

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Profile

Academic Background

  • Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Finance, 2014
  • M.B.A Appalachian State University, 2007
  • B.S. Appalachian State University, 2005

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, 兔子先生 University (2014-present)
  • Research Assistant, Department of Finance, University of Tennessee (2010-2014)
  • Senior Associate, Mesirow Financial Consulting (2007-2010)

Recent Publications

  • Biggerstaff, L., Campbell, J., Goldie, B., "Hitting the 鈥淕rass Ceiling鈥: Golfing CEOs, Exclusionary Schema, and Career Outcomes for Female Executives." Journal of Management, 2024
  • Biggerstaff, L., Cicero, D., Goldie, B., Reid, L., "CFO Effort and Public Firms' Financial Information Environment", Contemporary Accounting Research, 2021.
  • Biggerstaff, L., Cicero, D., Wintoki, B., "Insider Trading Patterns", Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020.
  • Biggerstaff, L., Moser, W., "The Reaction of Firm Ex Ante Cost of Equity Capital to Initiation and Resolution of Shareholder Lawsuits", Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2019.
  • Biggerstaff, L., Blank, B., Goldie, B., "Do Incentives Work? Option Compensation and Innovation", Journal of Corporate Finance, 2019.
  • Biggerstaff, L., Cicero, D., Puckett, A., "FORE! An analysis of CEO shirking", Management Science, 2017.
  • Biggerstaff, L., Cicero, D., Puckett, A., "Suspect CEOs, Unethical Culture, and Corporate Misbehavior", Journal of Financial Economics, 2015.

Honors & Awards

  • University of Tennessee Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise, 2012 Semi-Finalist Best Paper in Corporate Finance FMA annual meeting, 2012

Professional Interests

  • Research: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Insider Trading, Executive Compensation
  • Teaching: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance

Biography

Lee Biggerstaff joined the Farmer School of Business in 2014 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on the importance of executives on corporate outcomes and his work has been published in Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Journal of Corporate Finance.

Courses

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