Jide Wintoki

Jide Wintoki

Professor of Finance; Associate Dean of Graduate Programs. jwintoki[at]ku.edu

About me

Jide Wintoki is the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Capitol Federal Professor of Finance at the University of Kansas School of Business. From 2019 to 2022 he also served as Area Director of Analytics, Information, and Operations Management (AIO). His research interests include empirical corporate finance, international finance and applied econometrics. Prior to joining KU in 2008, he taught at the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia where he also obtained a Ph.D. in Finance. In addition to research, Jide teaches classes in Corporate Financial Policy, Business Investments, Business Finance and International Finance at the undergraduate and graduate level. Jide has also served as Visiting Financial Economist in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.).

Prior to his studies at Georgia, Jide completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos. He also worked in a variety of positions with ExxonMobil, Procter & Gamble, and NLNG.

Selected Publications

Implications of Data Screens on Merger and Acquisition Analysis: A Large Sample Study of Mergers and Acquisitions from 1992–2009. Review of Financial Studies, 24 (2011), 2316 – 2357 (with J. Netter and M. Stegemoller)

Endogeneity and the Dynamics of Internal Corporate Governance. Journal of Financial Economics, 105 (2012), 581 – 606 (with J. Linck and J. Netter)

Director Networks and Informed Traders. Journal of Accounting & Economics, 62 (2016), 1 – 23 (with F. Akbas and F. Meschke)

Do CMO Incentives Matter? An Empirical Investigation of CMO Compensation and Its Impact on Firm Performance. Management Science, 63 (2017), 1993 – 2015 (with N. Bansal, K. Joseph and M. Ma)

Foreign Independent Directors and the Quality of Legal Institutions. Journal of International Business Studies, 48 (2017), 267 – 292 (with M. Miletkov and A. Poulsen)

Offshore Expertise for Onshore Companies: Director Connections to Island Tax Havens and Corporate Tax Policy. Management Science, 64 (2018), 3241 – 3268 (with C. Jiang, T. Kubick and M. Miletkov)

Partisan Bias in Fund Portfolios. Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 55 (2020), 1717 – 1754 (with Y. Xi)

Indirect Insider Trading. Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 58 (2023), 2327 – 2364 (with B. Goldie, C. Jiang and P. Koch)

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Teaching

  1. Corporate Financial Policy
  2. Business Investment
  3. Business Financing
  4. International Finance