Malcolm Wardlaw
Associate Professor of Finance
University of Georgia
Terry School of Business
620 South Lumpkin Street
B332 Amos Hall
Athens GA 30602
United States
W: 706-204-9295
E-mail: malcolm.wardlaw@uga.edu
Research Interests
Corporate finance, banking and institutional capital, labor and finance
Publications
"Count (and Count-Like) Data in Finance"* (with Jonathan Cohn and Zack Liu)
Journal of Financial Economics (2022)
"Private equity buyouts and workplace safety" (with Jonathan Cohn and Nicole Nestoriak)
Review of Financial Studies (2021)
"Measuring Mutual Fund Flow Pressure as Shock to Stock Returns"
Journal of Finance (2020)
"Financing Constraints and Workplace Safety" (with Jonathan Cohn)
Journal of Finance (2016)
"The Costs of Closing Failed Banks: A Structural Estimation of Regulatory Incentives" (with Ari Kang and Richard Lowery)
Review of Financial Studies (2014)
Current Working Papers
"Societal Inequality and Financial Market Participation: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank" (with Virginia Traweek)
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Financial Studies
Companion website: Freedman's Bank Research
"Racial Violence, Political Representation, and the threat to Banks as Open Access Institutions" (with Virginia Traweek)
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Banking and Finance
"Complexity, Standardization, and the Design of Loan Agreements" (with Bernhard Ganglmair)
Presented at 2015 SFS Cavalcade, 2015 Econometric Society World Congress, 2015 NFA Meetings, 2016 AFA Meetings
"Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event" (with Johnathan Cohn, Travis Johnson, and Zack Liu)
"Can a Platform-Pays Mechanism reduce Credit Ratings Bias?" (with Indraneel Chakraborty and Alessio Saretto)
"Complementarities in the Design of Corporate Bonds" (with Robert Kieschnick)
"Information, Competition, and Investment Sensitivity to Peer Stock Prices" (with Arzu Ozoguz and Michael J. Rebello)
"Agency Costs, Information, and the Structure of Corporate Debt Covenants" (with Richard Lowery)
Short Papers
"Freedman’s Savings and Trust Bank Passbook and Dividend Repayment Records" (with Virginia Traweek)
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (2022)
Teaching Experience
Managerial Finance (MBA Course) - Spring 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023
Financial Management (Undergraduate Course) - Fall 2018 / 2019
Financial Management (MBA Course) - Spring 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017
Topics in Empirical Corporate Finance (PhD Course) - Spring 2014/ Spring 2015
Topics in Theoretical Corporate Finance (PhD Course) - Spring 2013
Energy Risk Management (Undergraduate Course) - Fall 2010
Financial Modeling in Excel (Undergraduate Course) - Fall 2008 / Spring 2009
Business Finance (Undergraduate Course) - Summer 2007
Erdös Number
5 (M. Wardlaw → R. Lowery → J. Ledyard → R.McKelvey → C. Tovey → P. Erdős)
Additional Information
Dual Citizen, U.S. and United Kingdom