Rate My Professor John Handley

Professor Handley's research specializations encompass corporate finance, cost of capital, derivatives, valuation, and asset pricing. Key publications include Handley (2008), 'Dividend Policy: Reconciling DD with MM', Journal of Financial Economics; Handley and Maheswaran (2008), 'A Measure of the Efficacy of the Australian Imputation Tax System', Economic Record; Brailsford, Handley, and Maheswaran (2012), 'The Historical Equity Risk Premium in Australia: Post-GFC and 128 Years of Data', Accounting and Finance; Brown, Handley, and Palmer (2013), 'A Closer Look at Barrier Exchange Options', Journal of Futures Markets; Brown, Handley, and O’Day (2015), 'The Dividend Substitution Hypothesis: Australian Evidence', Abacus; and Brown, Handley, Lin, and Palmer (2016), 'Partial Differential Equations for Asian Option Prices', Quantitative Finance. He has supervised multiple PhD students to completion. Professor Handley has received numerous Dean's Certificates for Excellence in Teaching from 2003 to 2014. His expertise has influenced policy and practice through advisory roles with the Australian Accounting Standards Board, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australian Energy Regulator, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, KPMG Corporate Finance, and New Zealand Commerce Commission, including reports on equity risk premiums and returns on equity.