Paul Spindt is the Keehn Berry Chair of Banking and Finance at the Freeman School of Business

Freeman School of Business

The Freeman School of Business, at Tulane University, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools...

 at Tulane University

Tulane University

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. He was previously a chair of the Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve System

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 and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 and Arizona State University

Arizona State University

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 before coming to Tulane. In addition to teaching and researching, he also works as a consultant. He has published a multitude of influential finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

 articles, and has contributed to the economic understanding of the analysis of monetary transactions. Additionally, he regularly publishes research on IPO

Initial public offering

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 analysis and dividend vs. stock repurchase decisions. He is an award recipient of the Journal of Finance

Journal of Finance

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Personal life

Spindt's hobbies include photography

Photography

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, golf

Golf

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, and scuba diving

Scuba diving

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. He enjoys listening to Elvis. Spindt is known to maintain a diverse home page, P.A. Spindt Unplugged (see here), which includes photos of tortoises.

Publications

Some of Spindt's more notable contributions include:

• "T vs Q: The Measurement and Analysis of Monetary transactions," (with C. Corrado), Journal of Economics and Business, 45 (1993): 193-212.
• "Wanna Dance? How Firms and Underwriters Choose Each Other,"(with V. Gatchev and C. Fernando), Journal of Finance
  Journal of Finance
  The Journal of Finance is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Finance Association. It was established in 1946. Its current editors are Campbell R. Harvey and John R. Graham...
  
  , 60 (2005): 2437-69.
• "Are share prices informative? Evidence from ownership, pricing, turnover, and performance of IPOs",(with S. Krishnamurthy and C. Fernando), Journal of Financial Markets, 7 (2004): 377-403.

External links

• Interview with Paul Spindt by Luis Figueroa.
• Spindt's fun home page
• Faculty profile at the Freeman School of Business.