Jonathan Karpoff

Education

• PhD University of California, Los Angeles (1982)
• MA University of California, Los Angeles (1980)
• BA University of Alaska (1978)

Academic Expertise

• business valuation
• corporate finance
• corporate governance

Current Research

• Corporate governance, Corporate crime and punishment, Corporate finance

Positions Held

• At the University of Washington since 1983
• John M. Olin Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, 1998
• Visiting Alumni Professor of Finance at Emory University, 2000-2002

Honors and Awards

• Best Teacher Award, UW Executive MBA graduating class, June 2015
• Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in Corporate Governance, Center for Corporate Governance, Drexel University, April 2015
• Best Teacher Award, UW Executive MBA graduating class, June 2014
• Best Teacher Award, UW Global Executive MBA graduating class, June 2013
• Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance for “Why do IPO firms have takeover defenses?” at the 2012 Financial Management Association conference, October 2012
• Emerald Management Review’s Citations of Excellence Award (for a top-50 cited paper in business journals, 2008-2012) for “The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books,” September 2012
• Best Paper Award for “Why Do IPO Firms Have Takeover Defenses?” at the Financial Research Association Conference, December 2011
• Best Teacher Award, UW Technology Management MBA graduating class, June 2011
• William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research (for best JFQA paper in 2008) for “The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books,” July 2009
• Best Paper Award, CRSP Forum for “Do Short Sellers Detect Overpriced Firms? Evidence from SEC Enforcement Actions,” November 2008
• Best Paper Award, CRSP Forum 2006, for “The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books,” November 2006
• KPMG/Peat Marwick Ph.D Project – Finance Doctoral Students Association inaugural award for “Outstanding Service, Leadership, and Commitment to the Finance Profession,” June 2005
• Griliches Prize in Empirical Economics, for “Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration: The Effects of Incentives and Organizational Structure.” The award is selected from papers published in the Journal of Political Economy from 1999 through 2002

Academic Service

• Associate Editor, The Journal of Finance (current)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Economics (current)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (current)
• Associate Editor, Management Science (current)
• Associate Editor, Managerial and Decision Sciences (current)
• Associate Editor, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (current)
• Member, Financial Economists Roundtable (current)
• International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation (current)
• Board of Trustees, Financial Management Association, 2008-present
• Searle Civil Justice Institute Task Force on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 2011-2014
• President, Financial Management Association, 2007-2008
• Vice President-Program for the 2005 program, Financial Management Association, 2005
• Faculty Director, Financial Management Association, 2002-2004
• Advisory Committee for the National Association of Corporate Directors, Seattle Chapter, 2006-2011
• Director, CFO Forum, 2004-2007
• Director of the Environmental Management Program, 1991-1993
• Managing Editor, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1989-2003