Finance Faculty : Sandy Klasa, Ph.D.

	Assistant Professor
	Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2002
	Phone:	520.621.8761
	Fax:	520.621.1261
	Email:	sklasa@eller.arizona.edu
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 315G

Curriculum Vitae

View or download CV in PDF format.

Current Courses

• FIN 480, Finance for New Ventures, Fall
• FIN 536, New Venture Finance, Fall
• FIN 620A, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance

Areas of Expertise

• Corporate finance
• Corporate governance
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Entreprenurial finance

Publications and Working Papers

• SSRN Link
  
  
• "Institutional stakeholdings and better-informed traders at earnings announcements,” with Ashiq Ali and Oliver Zhen Li, Journal of Accounting and Economics, conditional acceptance.
  
  
• “The limitations of industry concentration measures constructed with Compustat data: Implications for finance research,” with Ashiq Ali and Eric Yeung, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
  
  
• "The Influence of Product Market Dynamics on the Firm's Cash Holdings and Hedging Behavior," with David Haushalter and William Maxwell, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 84 No. 3, 2007, 797-825.
  
  
• "Why do controlling families of public firms sell their remaining ownership stake?" Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 42 No. 2, 2007, 339-368.
  
  
• "Takeover activity as a response to time-varying changes in investment opportunity sets: Evidence from takeover sequences," with Mike Stegemoller, Financial Management, Vol. 36 No. 2, 2007, 19-43.