Matthew D. Crook and John S. Howe, “Analyst Coverage Initiations for Banking IPOs,” Banks and Banking Systems Volume 6, issue 2, 2011.
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
Grace Qing Hao and John S. Howe, “Does Merger Structure Matter?,” Managerial Finance 37 (12), 2011, pp. 1112-1136. Winner of the Highly Commended Award for papers published in Managerial Finance in 2011.
Gregory Gelles, John S. Howe, and Xuejing Xing, “Does It Pay to Disclose Managerial Earnings Information Early?,” Journal of Financial Research 34 (2), 2011, pp. 365-386.
John S. Howe and Chris Tamm, “Corporate Governance of Dual-Class Firms,” Advances in Financial Economics 14, 2011, pp. 1-18.
John S. Howe and Ravi Jain, “Testing the Trade-off Theory of Capital Structure,” Review of Business 31(1), Fall 2010, pp. 54-67.