Travis Johnson

Education

• PhD Stanford University (2007 — 2012)
• BS Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004 — 2007)

Companies

• Associate Professor of Finance The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business (2020)
• Assistant Professor of Finance The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business (2012 — 2020)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance MIT Sloan School of Management (2015 — 2016)

Publications

• On the Economic Value of Stock Market Return Predictors (with Scott Cederburg and Michael S. O'Doherty)
• Review of Finance (2022) Forthcoming
• Reputation and Investor Activism: A Structural Approach (with Nathan Swem),
• Journal of Financial Economics 139 (2021), 29-56
• Expectations Management and Stock Returns (with Jinhwan Kim and Eric C. So),
• Review of Financial Studies 33 (2020), 4580-4626
• A Fresh Look at Return Predictability Using a More Efficient Estimator
• Review of Asset Pricing Studies 9 (2019), 1-46 (Editor's Choice, Best Paper Award)
• Time Will Tell: Information in the Timing of Scheduled Earnings News SSRN version
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 53 (2018), 2431-2464
• A Simple Multimarket Measure of Information Asymmetry (with Eric C. So)
• Management Science 64 (2018), 1055-1080
• Asymmetric Trading Costs Prior to Earnings Announcements: Implications for Price Discovery and Returns [SSRN version] Online Appendix
• Journal of Accounting Research 56 (2018), 217-263
• Risk Premia and the VIX Term Structure [SSRN version] [Data]
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 52 (2017), 2461-2490
• The Option to Stock Volume Ratio and Future Returns SSRN version
• Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012), 262-286