Karpoff, Jonathan M.
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Jonathan M. Karpoff
Washington Mutual Endowed Chair in Innovation Professor of Finance
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980
BA, University of Alaska, 1978
Specialties
Corporate governance, corporate crime and punishment, corporate finance.
Positions Held
At the University of Washington since 1983
John M. Olin Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (1998)
Visiting Alumni Professor of Finance at Emory University (2000-02)
Current Research
Corporate governance, corporate crime and punishment, corporate finance.
Honors and Awards
Best Paper Award, Financial Research Association Conference, for "Why Do IPO Firms Have Takeover Defenses?" (2011)
TMMBA Professor of the Quarter (Spring 2011)
Best Teacher Award, UW Technology Management MBA graduating class (2011)
TMMBA Professor of the Quarter (Spring 2010)
William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research, awarded by the JFQA, for "The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books" (July 2009)
Best Paper Award at the Conference on Corporate Governance and Fraud Prevention, for "Internal Governance, Earnings Management, and CEO Turnover" (June 2009)
Ron Crockett Award for Academic Excellence (2009)
Best paper award, CRSP Forum for “Do Short Sellers Detect Overpriced Firms? Evidence from SEC Enforcement Actions” (2008)
Q-Group grant for “Do Short Sellers Detect Overpriced Firms? Evidence from SEC Enforcement Actions,” (2008)
Best paper award, CRSP Forum, for “The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books” (2006)
KPMG/Peat Marwick Ph.D Project – Finance Doctoral Students Association inaugural award for “Outstanding Service, Leadership, and Commitment to the Finance Profession,” (2005)
Griliches Prize in Empirical Economics awarded by the Journal of Political Economy (2003)
Academic Service
International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
Searle Civil Justice Institute Task Force on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Financial Management Association:
Board of Trustees (2008-present)
President (2007-2008)
Vice President-Program for the 2005 program
Faculty Director (2002-2004)
Advisory Committee for the National Association of Corporate Directors, Seattle Chapter (2006-2011)
Director, CFO Forum (2004-2007)
Director of the Environmental Management Program (1991-93)
Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (1989-2003)
Consulting Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2003-2004)
Associate Editor for:
The Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Management Science
Managerial and Decision Sciences
The North American Journal of Economics and Finance