Kristine Watson Hankins

William E. Seale Professor of Finance
University of Kentucky



Recent Accomplishments of Students and Graduates


Dan Bradley, 'The Speed of Information and the Sell-Side Research Industry' - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2019)


Marc Painter, 'An Inconvenient Truth: The Effects of Climate Change on Municipal Bonds ' - Journal of Financial Economics (2019)


Jon Fulkerson & Tim Riley, 'Portfolio concentration and mutual fund performance ' - Journal of Empirical Finance (2019)


Zsuzsa Huszar, 'Covering Short Trades' - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2018)


Dan Bradley, 'Are all analysts created equal?' - Journal of Accounting and Economics (2018)


Jon Fulkerson & Tim Riley, 'Mutual Fund Liquidity Costs' - Financial Management (2017)
*** Editors' Pick: Top 3 Paper Award


Qun Wu, 'Organizational Form and Corporate Payout Policy' - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2017)


Dan Bradley, 'The causal effect of labor unions on innovation' - Management Science (2017)


Zsuzsa Huszar, 'The Information Value of Stock Lending Fees: Are Lenders Price Takers?' - Review of Finance (2016)


Soohyung Kim , 'Growth Opportunities, Short-Term Market Pressure, and Dual-Class Share Structure' - Journal of Corporate Finance (2016)


Dan Bradley, 'Does knowledge matter? Industry experience and analyst performance' - Journal of Finance (2016)


David Moore, American Finance Association PhD Travel Award


Dan Bradley, 'The influence of political bias in state pension funds' - Journal of Financial Economics (2016)


Hinh Khieu, 'Does Earnings Management Relieve the Negative Effects of Mandatory Pension Contributions?' - Financial Management (2016)


David Moore, Northern Finance Association PhD Travel Award


Tim Riley, 'Volatility and Mutual Fund Manager Skill' - Journal of Financial Economics (2015)


Dan Bradley, 'Top VC IPO Underpricing' - Journal of Corporate Finance (2015)


Monika Rabarison, 'Mutual Fund Tournaments: Do Mid-year Winners Still Compete?' - Journal of Investing (2015)


Mike Highfield, 'Sales of Secondary Shares in SEOs: A Comparison Across Top Managers, Other Insiders, and Outsiders' - Financial Management (2014)


Qun Wu, 'Corporate Payout Policy in Dual-Class Firms' - Journal of Corporate Finance (2014)


Xin Hong, 'The dynamics of hedge fund share restrictions' - Journal of Banking and Finance (2014)


Jon Fulkerson, 'Long run performance of solicited and unsolicited credit ratings' - Journal of Banking and Finance (2014)


Dan Bradley, 'Are analysts' recommendations informative?' - Journal of Finance (2014)


Tim Riley, 'Predictability in Bond ETF Returns' - Journal of Fixed Income (2014)


Tim Riley, 'Return chasing in bond funds' - Journal of Fixed Income (2013)


Qun Wu, 'Do Investment Banks Listen to Their Own Analysts?' - Journal of Banking and Finance (2012)


Tim Riley, American Finance Association PhD Travel Award


Tim Riley, 'Do absolute return mutual funds have absolute returns?' - Journal of Investing (2013)


Xin Hong, Financial Management Association PhD Consortium Invitation


Zsuzsa Huszár, 'The Good News in Short Interest' - Journal of Financial Economics 2010
*** 2010 JFE Fama-DFA Best Paper Prize


Pankaj Maskara, 'Information asymmetry and self-selection bias in loan announcement studies' - Journal Of Financial Economics 2010


Dan Bradley, Invited to be an Associate Editor at JFR


Xin Hong, American Finance Association PhD Doctoral Consortium Invitee


Tim Riley, CFA Society Award


Di Kang, Midwest Finance Association Travel Award