Brian Blank (Financial Economist)
Douglas Brian Blank, II, (born May 19, 1988) is an American assistant professor of finance at Mississippi State University and lives in Starkville, Mississippi.[1]
Blank was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and earned undergraduate and Masters degrees in finance, statistics, and mathematics from University of Alabama.
He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business, with Tracie Woidtke as an advisor, where he developed expertise in researching corporate finance and corporate governance. His dissertation was titled "Does Political Giving Impact Shareholder Wealth? Evidence from State Campaign Finance Reforms".[2] He served as a faculty member at Mississippi State University from 2016 to the Present. [3]
His 21st century work involved financial economics.[4]
He studies executive compensation and incentives. His best-cited research is titled, "Do incentives work? Option-based compensation and corporate innovation". [5] His research is of interest to not only academics but also industry professionals and has been cited collectively more than fifty times. Blank studies topics ranging from the expertise and succession planning of executive officers to insider trading, and has published articles with ten different coauthors. Moreover, his productivity ranks among the top 4% of researchers at this stage in their careers.[6] [7]
He also contributed to dozens of media regarding the Federal Reserve, Economy of the United States, and Recession. For example, he wrote about the Federal Reserve of the United States raising interest rates by 0.75 percentage point in 2022, which was read more than one hundred thousand times.[8] His research has also resulted in articles and interviews on multiple occasions by outlets including Forbes, Reuters, BBC, ABC News (Australia), and WTVA.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Faculty Website: Brian Blank
- ↑ Docoral Dissertation: Does Political Giving Impact Shareholder Wealth? Evidence from State Campaign Finance Reforms, August 2016
- ↑ Faculty Website: Brian Blank
- ↑ Google Scholar: D. Brian Blank
- ↑ Do incentives work? Option-based compensation and corporate innovation, October 2019
- ↑ Do Insiders Cluster Trades with Colleagues? Evidence from Daily Insider Trading, January 24, 2019
- ↑ A game of thrones—Dynamics of internal CEO succession and outcome, April 12, 2021
- ↑ 5 things to know about the Fed’s biggest interest rate increase since 1994 and how it will affect you, June 14, 2022
- ↑ The US Central bank hikes interest rates in the biggest rise in nearly 30 years to combat soaring inflation - we'll found out why this is significant, June 16, 2022
- ↑ How will global markets react to US Federal Reserve's latest rate hike?, November 7, 2022
- ↑ Interview: MSU Associate Finance Professor weighs in on outlook of economy in 2023, November 11, 2022
- ↑ The Chief Human Reinvention Officer: Why More CEOs Should Look To CHROs As Successors, May 16, 2022
- ↑ U.S. CEOs who win trade barriers for their firms see big compensation boost: study, November 5, 2019
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