John S. Howe and Ji-Chai Lin, “Dividend Policy and the Bid-Ask Spread: An Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Financial Research, Spring 1992, pp. 1-10. Abstracted in the CFA Digest, Summer 1992.
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, 1981Publications
John S. Howe and Ji-Chai Lin, “The Bid-Ask Spreads of American Depositary Receipts,” Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research, Vol. III, 1992, pp. 391-404.
John S. Howe and James D. Shilling, “REIT Advisor Performance,” Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Winter 1990, pp. 479-500.
John S. Howe and Jeff Madura, “The Impact of International Listings on Risk: Implications for Capital Market Integration,”Journal of Banking and Finance, December 1990, pp. 1133-1142. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, June 1992.
Ji-Chai Lin and John S. Howe, “Insider Trading in the OTC Market,” Journal of Finance, September 1990, pp. 1273-1284. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March 1991.