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Finance

John S. Howe

Professor Emeritus

John Howe is a Professor of Finance and Missouri Bankers Chair in the Finance Department at the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri. He has been at MU more than 25 years, serving as and Chair of the Finance Department until 2019, and with prior appointments at Louisiana State University and the University of Kansas.

He earned his undergraduate degree (B.A.) from Colorado College and his graduate degrees (M.S., Ph.D.) from Purdue University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and has served on the boards of directors of several for-profit companies along with having extensive non-profit board experience.

Howe's research interests including banking, corporate governance, household finance, and behavioral economics. He has published extensively in the major journals in finance and accounting, and has more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia), and has taught courses for the banking group UBS (Switzerland).

Howe has won numerous teaching awards, including the William T. Kemper Fellow for Excellence in Teaching. He has taught at all levels including the executive MBA.

Education

BA, Colorado College, 1976; MS, Purdue University, 1978; PhD, Purdue University, 1981

Publications

John S. Howe and Bob G. Wood, Jr., “An Investigation of Calendar Anomalies in Pacific Rim and U.S. Equity Markets,” Studies in the Financial Markets of the Pacific Basin, JAI Press, 1994, pp. 19-37.

Mustafa Chowdhury, John S. Howe and Ji-Chai Lin, “The Relation between Aggregate Insider Transactions and Stock Market Returns,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, September 1993, pp. 431-437.

W. Van Harlow and John S. Howe, “Leveraged Buyouts and Insider Nontrading,” Financial Management, Spring 1993, pp. 109-118.

John S. Howe and Peihwang Wei, “The Valuation Effects of Warrant Extensions,” Journal of Finance, March 1993, pp. 305-314. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, September 1993.

John S. Howe, Jeff Madura and Alan L. Tucker, “International Listings and Risk,” Journal of International Money and Finance, February 1993, pp. 99-110. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, September 1993.