Dr. John A. Doukas earned his Ph. D in Financial Economics at Stern School of Business, New York University. He is Professor of Finance, William B. Spong, Jr., Chair of Finance and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. He is Finance Research Associate (Honorary) at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. Dr. Doukas was visiting Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business, New York University 2001-2003. He has taught and given seminars at the MBA and Ph. D level in several North American and European Business Schools. He is the co-recipient of the prestigious Graham & Dodd Award 2004 for his article “Divergent Opinions and the Performance of Value Stocks”. In 2020 & 2022 he was included in the Stanford University list of the top 2% of global scholars, in all research fields.

Doukas’ research has been cited over 11,933 times with h-index 52 according to Google Scholar. His research interests include corporate finance, asset pricing, the role of information in capital markets, behavioral finance theories and determinants of asset pricing and corporate decisions, international financial management, foreign investments, and foreign exchange markets. Dr.Doukas has published over one hundred fifty (150) scientific academic articles on a wide range of finance and business-related issues in many academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Investing, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, Financial Management, and Financial Review.

He is the co-author of the path breaking article on international mergers and acquisitions entitled "The Effect of Corporate Multinationalism on Shareholders' Wealth: Evidence from International Acquisitions", JOURNAL OF FINANCE, 1988, 43, 1161-1175. His work has been widely cited in academic journals and popular textbooks for undergraduates and/or MBA students such as Takeovers, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance, J. Fred Weston, Kwang S. Chung, and Juan A. Siu, Prentice Hall; Multinational Business Finance, David K, Eiteman, Arthur I Stonhill, and Michael H. Moffett, Addison Wesley (This is the most widely adapted book for international financial management and international finance undergraduate and MBA courses worldwide); International Investment-Value Creation and Appraisal: A Real Options Approach, Adrian Buckley, Copenhagen Business School Press; International Financial Management, Cheol S.Eun, and BruceG.Resnick Irwin McGraw-Hill; International Finance: Management, Markets, and Institutions, James C. Baker, Prentice Hall, New Jersey; Multinational Finance, Kirt C. Butler, South Western College Publishing and many others. His Google Scholar H-index is 50 with Citations 10,729.

He is the founding and managing editor of the European Financial Management (EFM), the leading scientific journal in European finance, the journal of EFMA. He is also the founder of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA). He is Past President of the European Financial Management Association-EFMA. He is the founder and organizer of the Annual EFM "Merton H. Miller" Doctoral Seminar. He is the Editor of the European Finance Abstracts Journal, a Financial Economics Network (FEN) publication, of Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP) and Social Science Research Network (SSRN). He has published seven books and he is the co-editor of the JAI Press Annual Research Series in International Business and Finance. He is also acting as the Business Experts Press (BEP) collection editor of the book series in Finance & Financial Management with 42 BEP books being published so far. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the journal of the Academy of International Business (AIB).

Read more...