Rate My Professor Tom Miller

Professor Tom Miller is a Full Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis at Kennesaw State University's Coles College of Business. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Quantitative Business Analysis from Indiana University, earned in 1974. Miller joined Kennesaw State University in 1989 and has maintained Scholarly Academics (SA) classification, with primary teaching responsibilities in economics (ECON) and finance (FIN) courses, including Business Statistics (ECON 2300).

Miller's academic interests center on finance, econometrics, and statistics. His research examines firm valuation, corporate investment decisions, advertising effects, and market responses, including energy price shocks. Notable publications include "Terminal Values for Firms with Growth Opportunities: Explaining Valuation and IPO Price Behavior" in Studies in Economics and Finance (2018, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 244-272); "Criteria for Corporate Investment Decisions: Comparison of Cash Flow and Accounting Based Approaches" in International Research Journal of Applied Finance (2017, Vol. VIII, No. 9, pp. 73-87); "Wealth Effects of Starting, Continuing, and Stopping Super Bowl Advertising" in International Research Journal of Applied Finance (2014, Vol. V, Iss. 4, pp. 401-414); "Dynamic responses of energy prices to oil price shocks" in Managerial Finance (2023); "Drivers of the Value of the Firm: Profitability, Growth, and Capital Intensity" (2004); "The Market-Implied Economic Lives of Advertising Expenses and R&D Expenses" (2005); and "Active Management of Real Options" (2011). He contributes to student experiential learning as a professor and advisor for the Kennesaw State University Student Managed Investment Fund.