Meet Kevin Lee
Chair/Associate Professor, Finance
Phone: (813) 257-3336
Email: klee@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: O
Building:
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Room: 360
Education
2003 University of Hawaii, B.A.2005 University of Hawaii, MBA
2012 University of Arkansas, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
Corporate FinanceFinance Theory
Financial Management
Financial Statement Analysis
International Business
International Finance
Investments
Managerial Economics
Personal Finance
Risk Management
Real Estate Finance
Statistical Analysis
Career Specialties
Kevin Lee's area of interest is in corporate finance, both domestic and international, and in banking.Professional and Community Activities
Lee's research areas are as follows:Corporate finance 鈥 Internal and External Mechanisms of Governance
International finance 鈥 M andA鈥檚, Cultural Determinants, Institutional Change
Banking 鈥 Opacity and Capital Structure
Below is a select list of recent publications:
鈥淭he Institutional Impact on the Outreach and Profitability of Microfinance Organizations鈥, (with Kathy Fogel and William McCumber), 2011 Chapter 10 in Audretsch, D., Falck, O., and Heblich, S., (eds.) Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, pp. 119-131, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
鈥淎 Value-at-Risk Approach to Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Stress Testing at US Commercial Banks鈥 (with John Hall, David Kern, Tom King, and Timothy Yeager) 2011 鈥 Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 5, pp. 60-75
鈥淭he Effects of Investor Bias and Gender on Portfolio Performance and Risk鈥 (with Scott Miller, Nicole F. Velasquez, and Christi Wann) 2013 鈥 The International Journal of Business and Finance Research 7, pp. 1-16
鈥淔oreign Direct Investors as Change Agents: The Swedish Firm Experience鈥 (with Kathy Fogel, Wayne Lee, and Johanna Palmberg) 2013 鈥 Corporate Governance: An International Review 21, pp. 516-534
鈥淭he Effects of Bank Capital Constraints on Post-Acquisition Performance鈥 (with Chris Brune and Scott Miller) 2015 鈥 Journal of Economics and Finance 39, pp. 75-99
鈥淭he Effect of Opacity on Market Discipline during the lead up to the Financial Crisis" (with Scott Miller and Timothy Yeager) 2015 鈥 Banking and Finance Review 7. pp. 87-111
鈥淭he Differential Institutional Impact of Ownership Decisions by Emerging Market and Advanced Market MNCs鈥 (with Rushiun Liou and Scott Miller) Forthcoming 鈥 Cross Cultural & Strategic Management
Honors and Awards
Richard and Tamara Greene Doctoral Fellowship 2006-2011Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award 2010
R.E.C.K.E.D. Award for Excellence, Creativity, application of Knowledge, and Engagement in Diversity 2016