Felix Meschke

Before joining KU, Felix Meschke taught in the undergraduate, part-time MBA, and international executive MBA programs at the University of Minnesota. His academic work has examined corporate donations to political parties, information transmission between corporate insiders and sophisticated traders, the effect of media attention on stock prices, and the disappearance of portfolio pumping (the practice of buying additional shares of illiquid stocks to inflate performance at the end of reporting periods) among U.S. mutual funds. His article in the Journal of Financial Economics shows that the well-known inverse-U relationship between managerial stock ownership and firm is not an instance of cause and effect. In other work, Meschke has shown that employees who work for active founders rate their companies higher than employees in non-family firms, and that employee assessments predict firm performance. His research has garnered significant media attention, including articles in The Wall Street Journal, Time Business, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes and Huffington Post.

Education

• Ph.D. Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
• Diploma Universität Witten/Herdecke

Companies

• Associate Professor of Finance The University of Kansas School of Business (2016)
• Assistant Professor of Finance The University of Kansas School of Business (2010 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Carlson School of Management (2006 — 2010)

Skills

• R
• College Teaching
• Corporate Governance

Other

Mutual Funds, Statistical Modeling, Stata, SAS, University Teaching, Quantitative Analytics, Quantitative Finance, Financial Modeling, Portfolio Management, Finance, Research, Investments, Data Analysis, Financial Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Corporate Finance