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Paul Newsom

Assistant Professor of Finance

Awards and Honors

Best Paper in Financial Education, 2006 Midwest Business Administration Association in Chicago, IL, "Valuing a Small Business: The Case of an Independent Retail Pharmacy", with Ben Dow.

Distinguished Reserch Award, 2005 Allied Academies Conference in Las Vegas, NV, "An Aggregate Investigation of the Demand for Home Equity Credit", with Ben Dow

Academic Publications

"An Aggregate Investigation of the Demand for Home Equity Credit", with Ben Dow, Journal of Commercial Banking and Finance, volume 4, numbers 1-2, 2005, 99-109.

"Integrating Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis in a Dynamic Capital Budgeting Spreadsheet", with Ben Dow, Advances in Financial Education, fall 2004, 58-69.

Papers Under Review at Academic Journals

"The Performance and Determinants of Firms that Reprice Options During a Bear Market", with Wayne Y. Lee and Pu Liu, second round at Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

"Do Firms Manage Their Earnings Prior to Filing for Bankruptcy?", with Robert Leach, first round at Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal.

"Valuing a Small Business: The Case of an Independent Retail Pharmacy", with Ben Dow, first round at Journal of Finance Case Research.

"The Case of Simulating the Choices of Money Managers by Applying Modern Portfolio Theory Using Real Stock Price Data", with Lihui Bai and Ben Dow, first round at Journal of Economics and Economics Education Research.

"Earnings Manipulation and The Performance of Firms That Offer Delay Option Repricings", with Ben Dow, first round at Journal of the Academy of Finance.

Papers Under Revision

"Voluntary Stock Option Expensing: Is it a Positive Signal?", with Leroy Christ, Mary Christ, and Zhenhu Jin. Rewriting paper based on suggestions from reviewer and plan to resubmit to the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences.

"Riverside Country Club, Private or Semi-Private: Mutually Exclusive Decision Making Under Uncertainty", with Ben Dow. Rewriting paper based on suggestions from reviewers and editor, and plan to resubmit to the Journal of Financial Education.

Research in Progress

"Valuing the Firm Using Traditional Asset Pricing Models by Adjusting and Forecasting Financial Statements", with Ben Dow. Data is collected and we are in the writing process.

"Factors Affecting Firms’ Choice between Delayed and Immediate Stock Option Repricings", with Ben Dow. Data is collected and we are in the writing process.