Faculty Profiles

Anderson, Christopher W.

Associate Professor, Harper Faculty Fellow


301-E Summerfield
University of Kansas, School of Business
1300 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7585

P: 785-864-7340
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cwanderson@ku.edu

Education Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA Institute, 1998 Ph.D. in Financial Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1995 Masters of Arts in Business and Economics, University of Iowa, 1989, 1990 Certificate in Advanced Portuguese, Instituto Brasil-Estados-Unidos, 1989 Bachelors in Business Administration, University of Iowa, 1986 Highest Honors, Creighton Preparatory School, 1983
Academic Areas Finance
Interests Corporate finance and governance Empirical capital market research International finance Brazilian economy and capital markets
Current Activities Anderson teaches at the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels at the KU School of Business. At the undergraduate level he has most recently taught classes on international finance and financial markets and intermediaries. At the MBA level he has most recently taught international finance and corporate finance. At the Ph.D. level he has most recently taught seminars on corporate finance and independent studies on international finance, real estate finance, financing and governance of biotech firms, and entrepreneurial finance. Recently mentored Ph.D. students include Hilla Skiba (2008, placement at U. of Wyoming), Jenny Zhang (2007, placement at Missouri State U.), Eli Beracha (2007, placement at East Carolina U.), Na Dai (2006, initial placement at the University of New Mexico, now at U. Albany), and Luis Garcia-Feijóo (Ph.D. from Missouri in 2001, initial placement at Creighton University, now at Florida Atlantic U.). Anderson’s scholarship is focused on empirical research on capital markets, corporate finance, real estate, and international finance. Current project topics include integration of real estate markets and capital markets, how drug pipelines condition financing and governance of biotech firms, corporate finance via private investments in public equity (PIPEs), and how cultural differences across nations condition international stock allocations by institutional investors. More information on research papers can be located on Anderson’s personal web site. Anderson is affiliated with the KU Center for Global & International Studies, the KU Center of Latin American Studies, and the KU Center for East Asian Studies. He has traveled extensively in South America, especially in Brazil, Ecuador, and Chile. In 2009 Anderson helped direct a KU Business in Brazil study abroad class that visited Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He also co-directed the 2009 Global Business Projects team consulting study abroad to Brazil, involving MBA students from multiple universities who worked on consulting projects in Brazil. View Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications Anderson, C., Beracha, E., 2009. Home-price sensitivity to capital market factors: analysis of zip code level data. Forthcoming, Journal of Real Estate Research. Anderson, C., Beracha, E., 2008. Robustness of the headquarters city effect on stock returns. Journal of Financial Research 31, No.3, 271-300. Anderson, C., Garcia-Feijóo, L., 2006. Empirical evidence on capital investment, growth options, and security returns. Journal of Finance 61, No. 1, 171-194. Abstracted in CFA Digest, August 2006, Vol. 36 (3), 82-83. Research cited by SmartMoney.com in May 2005. Anderson, C., Campbell, T., 2004. Corporate governance of Japanese banks. Journal of Corporate Finance, 10, No. 3, 327-354. An earlier version appeared in Global Financial Crises: Implications for Banking and Regulation, Proceedings, 1999 Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 496-515. Anderson, C., Becher, D., Campbell, T., 2004. Bank mergers, the market for bank CEOs, and managerial incentives. Journal of Financial Intermediation 13, No. 1, 6-27. An earlier version appeared in the 2002 working paper series of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware. Anderson, C., Campbell, T., Jayaraman, N., Mandelker, G., 2003. Bank monitoring, firm performance, and top management turnover in Japan. Advances in Financial Economics 8, 1-27. Anderson, C., Jandik, T., Makhija, A., 2001. Determinants of foreign ownership in newly privatized companies in transition economies. The Financial Review 36, No. 2, 161-176. Anderson, C., Campbell, T., 2000. Restructuring the Japanese banking system: Has Japan gone far enough? International Review of Financial Analysis 9, No. 2, 197-218. Anderson, C., Makhija, A., 1999. Deregulation, disintermediation, and agency costs of debt: evidence from Japan. Journal of Financial Economics 51, No. 2, 309-339. An earlier version appeared in The New Tool Set: Assessing Innovations in Banking, Proceedings, 1995 Conference on Bank Structure & Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 406-426. Anderson, C., 1999. Financial contracting under extreme uncertainty: an analysis of Brazilian corporate debentures. Journal of Financial Economics 51, No. 1, 45-84. Anderson, C., 1994. The latest perspective on Brazilian bank stocks. LatinFinance (May), 76-79.