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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 Hongbok Lee, “The Long Run Stock Performance of Preferred Stock Issuers,” Review of Financial Economics 15, 2006. pp. 237-250. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March 2007.

John S. Howe and Ravi Jain, “Share Repurchase Programs by Banks,” Banks and Banking Systems 1, 2006, pp. 90-102.

Luis Garcia- Feijóo, John S. Howe, and Tie Su, “Completely Predictable and Fully Anticipated? Step Ups in Warrant Exercise Prices,” Applied Economic Letters 12, 2005, pp. 561-565. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March 2006.

Luis Garcia- Feijóo, John S. Howe, and Randy D. Jorgensen, “Liquidity Costs and the Information Content of Calls of Warrants: Intra-Industry Evidence,” Investment Management and Financial Innovations 1, 2005, pp. 70-81. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, September 2005.

Luis Garcia- Feijóo and John S. Howe, “The Matching of Financial and Real Investment Options: Evidence from Warrant Calls,” The Journal of Financial Research 28, 2005, pp. 609-620. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, June 2006.