Faculty Profiles

Beedles, William (Bill) L.

Professor, Faculty Coordinator of Executive Education


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

P: (785) 864-7530
wbeedles@ku.edu

Education PhD Finance, The University of Texas at Austin (1975) Masters M.S. in Business, Kansas State University (1971) Bachelors B.S. in Business, Kansas State University (1970) Joined the University of Kansas in 1978
Academic Areas Finance
Interests Managerial Finance Investment and Portfolio Management Entrepreneurial Finance Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Current Activities After years of focusing primarily on academic research, my interests have shifted to applications of financial economics for solving current business problems. Therefore in addition to working closely with undergraduate and masters students, I have extensive dealings with adult learners through the School’s executive education initiatives and consulting engagements. These experiences let us enrich the learning of degree seeking students with insights into current controversies in the field.
Selected Publications "A Micro-Econometric Investigation of Multi-Objective Firms", The Journal of Finance. "An Investigation of the Information Content of Foreign Sensitive Payment Disclosures", Journal of Accounting and Economics. With David B. Smith and Howard F. Stettler. "Mutually Exclusive Projects with Unequal Lives, Reinvestment Plans and Unequal Required Rates of Return," Journal of Financial Education. With O. Maurice Joy. "On the Asymmetry of Market Returns", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. "Asymmetric Stable Distributed Security Returns", Journal of the American Statistical Association. With Michael A. Simkowitz. "Regularities in Australian Share Returns," Australian Journal of Management. With Peter Dodd and Robert R. Officer. "Size, Liquidity, and the Cost of Equity", Journal of Small Business Finance.