John S. Howe and Hongbok Lee, “Corporate Governance Characteristics of Firms that Issue Preferred Stock,” Advances in Financial Economics 9, 2004, 29-53.
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 Ravi Jain, “The REIT Modernization Act of 1999,” Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 28, 2004, 369-388.
Xuejing Xing and John S. Howe, “The Empirical Relationship between Risk and Return: Evidence from the U.K. Stock Market,” International Review of Financial Analysis 12, 2003, pp. 329-346. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, December 2003.
John S. Howe and Kent P. Ragan, “Price Discovery and the International Flow of Information,” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, July 2002, pp. 201-215. Abstracted in the CFA Digest, November 2002. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, December 2002.
John S. Howe and Tie Su, “Discretionary Reductions in Warrant Exercise Prices,” Journal of Financial Economics, August 2001, pp. 227-252. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, December 2001.