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Finance

Kuntara Pukthuanthong

Professor of Finance, Robert J. Trulaske, Jr. Professor of Finance
Office
360 Cornell Hall
Address

700 Tiger Avenue
Columbia, MO 65211

Kuntara Pukthuanthong is a Professor of Finance and the Robert J. Trulaske, Jr. Professor of Finance at the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri. Her main research interests are international finance and asset pricing. She received a BA in economics from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; an MBA in finance from Washington University, and PhD in finance from University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Pukthuanthong's research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Critical Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Review, Economic Note, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Applied Financial Economics, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Investment Management, Journal of Portfolio Management, Global Finance Journal, International Journal of Managerial Finance, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and Venture Capital Journal.

Dr. Pukthuanthong serves as the associate editor for the International Review of Financial Analysis Journal.

Dr. Pukthuanthong's additional experience includes:

  • June 2018 – January 2019, Consultant, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management, Los Angeles, CA
  • January 2013 – July 2015, Board of Director, Centricity Financial, LLC
  • January 2010 – December 2012, Consultant, Flint Rock Global Investors, LLC
  • August 2011 – February 2012, Consultant at Research Affiliates, Newport Beach, CA
  • 1998-2003, Research Assistant, International Portfolio Management, research with Dr. Lee Thomas III, Managing Director at PIMCO.

Education

PhD, Finance, University of California; MBA, Finance, Washington University; BA, Economics, Chulalongkorn University

Awards

3rd prize Winner, Crowell Prize PanAgora Asset Management (2021) for Machine Learning Classification Methods and Portfolio Allocation: An Examination of Market Efficiency; Winemiller Excellence Award (2020) and Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Research Award (2019) for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Market Sentiment from PhotosCrowell prize, PanAgora Asset Management, Jack Treynor Prize Winner, Q Group,  Inquire Europe, Inquire UK, Dauphine-Amundi Chair In Asset Management and ICPM University of Toronto for A Protocol for Factor IdentificationFinalist, Crowell Prize PanAgora Asset

Publications

Do Hedge Funds Dynamically Manage Systematic Risk?  with Ethan Namvar, Blake Phillips, and Raghavendra Rau, Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 64, issue C, 2016, lead article.

Legal Opportunism, Litigation Risk, and IPO Underpricing, Thomas Walker, Harry Turtle, and Dolrudee Thiengtham, Journal of Business Research, Volume 68 (2), February 2015, 326-340

Internationally correlated jumps with Richard Roll, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2015 5(1), 92-111

Detecting superior mutual fund managers: Evidence from copycats with Blake Phillips and Raghavendra Rau, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2015, 4(2), 286-321. Featured in The EconomistThe Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Mentioned in the Alpha Architect Blog.

Positive And Negative Synergies Between The CEO's And The Corporate Board's Human And Social Capital: A Study Of Biotechnology Firms IPOs with Chamu Sundaramurthy and Yasemin Kor, Strategic Management Journal, 36(6), June 2014 845-868.