Faculty Profiles

Chauvin, Keith

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs


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

P: (785) 864-7567
kchauvin@ku.edu

Education PhD University of Illinois, 1988 Masters University of Illinois, 1985 Bachelors Rockhurst College, 1980
Academic Areas Economics Finance Human Resources
Interests Managerial and Organizational Economics Corporate Finance Economics of Employee Compensation Executive Compensation and the Effects of the Use of Executive Stock Options
Current Activities My current research focuses on the effects of putting managerial and employee compensation at risk by making pay vary with performance. Executive stock options, for example, focus executive attention on long run stock prices, the performance measure of greatest interest to the owners. In the area of teaching, I have been fortunate over the last several years to have the opportunity to participate in numerous executive education programs with top mangers from companies such as Sprint, Kroger, Farmland Industries, and Koch Industries. I am also on the faculty of KU's Law and Organizational Economics Center, and I teach in the Center's Economics Institute for State Judges. Just as students benefit from a better understanding of the basic economic principles of how people respond to incentives and how markets work, experienced executives and even judges benefit from these lessons.
Selected Publications "Stock Price Increases Prior to Executive Stock-Option Grants," Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming. Chauvin, Keith W. and Catherine Shenoy. "Ownership Structure and Capital Structure," Advances in Financial Economics, (1996). Chauvin, Keith W. and Mark Hirschey. "Goodwill, Profitability and the Market Value of the Firm," Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, (Summer 1994): 159-180. Chauvin, Keith W. and Mark Hirschey. "Gender-Earnings Differentials in Total Pay, Base Pay and Contingent Pay," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (July 1994): 634-649. Chauvin, Keith W. and Ronald Ash. "Advertising, R&D Expenditures and the Market Value of the Firm," Financial Management, (Winter 1993): 128-140. Chauvin, Keith W. and Mark Hirschey. "An Inter-Plant Test of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis," Quarterly Journal of Economics, (August 1991): 769-87. Cappelli, Peter and Keith W. Chauvin.