Rate My Professor Michael Schill

Schill's research addresses empirical issues in corporate finance, investments, and international finance, with key contributions on topics such as the asset growth effect, cross-listing decisions, post-acquisition returns, and foreign currency debt issuance. His publications feature prominently in top-tier journals, including "Asset Growth and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns" with Michael Cooper and Huseyin Gulen in the Journal of Finance (2008, finalist for the Smith Breeden Prize), "Cross-Listings and the Dynamics between Credit and Equity Returns" in the Review of Financial Studies (2020), and "Nonlinearities and a Pecking Order in Cross-border Investment" in the Journal of Banking and Finance (2024). He co-authored the widely used textbook Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation (8th edition, 2018) with Robert F. Bruner and Kenneth M. Eades and has developed over 30 teaching cases. In teaching, he delivers the core finance course and the Financial Trading elective in the full-time MBA program. Among his awards are the Wells Fargo Award for Excellence in a Case Series (2018), multiple Wachovia Awards for research and course materials, and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators Best Business Valuation Research Paper award (2009).