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Timothy C Johnson

Associate Professor of Finance and Robert and Karen May Faculty Fellow

Education

Ph.D. Finance, University of Chicago, 1999.
MBA International Business, Columbia University, 1985.
M.S. Operations Research, Columbia University, 1985.
B.S. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.

Positions

Associate Professor of Finance, University of Illinois, 2006 - present
Assistant Professor of Finance, London Business School, 1999 - 2006
Senior Trader, Global Derivatives, Caxton Corporation, 1989 - 1994
Director, Quantitative Research, Mabon Securities, Inc., 1979 - 1983

Research

Journal Articles

"Liquid Capital and Market Liquidity." T. Johnson, Economic Journal, 2009


"Volume, Liquidity, and Liquidity Risk." T. Johnson, Journal of Financial Economics, (87) 2 2008


"Insider Trading in Credit Derivatives." T. Johnson, V. Acharya, Journal of Financial Economics, (84) April: 1 110-141 2007


"Optimal Learning and New Technology Bubbles." T. Johnson, Journal of Monetary Economics, (54) November: 8 2486-2511 2007


"Dynamic Liquidity in Endowment Economies." T. Johnson, Journal of Financial Economics, (80) June: 3 531-562 2006


"Unifying Underreaction Anomalies." T. Johnson, A. Jackson, Journal of Business, 2006


"Forecast Dispersion and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns." T. Johnson, Journal of Finance, 2004


"Rational Momentum Effects." T. Johnson, Journal of Finance, 2002


"Volatility, Momentum and Time-Varying Skewness in Foreign Exchange Returns." T. Johnson, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2002


"Return Dynamics when Persistence is Unobservable." T. Johnson, Mathematical Finance, 2001

Honors and Awards


Smith-Breeden Award -- nominated paper, American Finance Association , 2004


Smith-Breeden Award -- Distinguished Paper, American Finance Association , 2002

 

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343E Wohlers Hall
1206 South Sixth Street
Champaign IL 61820

(217) 333-4089
tcj@illinois.edu

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