GEORGE KANATAS December 31, 2014 CONTACT INFORMATION Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business 6100 Main St. Houston, Texas 77005-1892 713.348.5383, 5396 PERSONAL Married, one son U.S. citizen EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics The Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. Physics The University of Kansas B.S. Physics The City College of New York AWARDS Indiana University School of Business Doctoral Student Association Award 1990 Federal Home Loan Bank Board Grant 1985-1986 The Johns Hopkins University Fellowship 1974-1978 National Science Foundation Traineeship 1968-1971 New York State Regents Scholarship 1962-1966 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Rice University, Professor of Finance 1994-present Jesse H. Jones Professor of Finance 1995-present Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2003-2007 University of South Florida Professor of Finance and Department Chair 1990-1994 Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration (Thailand) Visiting Professor February-March 1992 Indiana University Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) 1986-1990 University of Illinois, Chicago Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) 1985-1986 Northwestern University Assistant Professor of Finance 1978-1985 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago-Visiting Scholar 1983-1984 University of Kentucky Visiting Assistant Professor 1973-1974 Visiting Instructor of Physics 1972-1973 University of Kansas: Postdoctoral Research Associate Fall 1971 ACADEMIC SERVICE Rice University (various dates) Rice University Vice Provost for Research Advisory Committee (2009-2012) Rice University Vice-Provost for Research Search Committee (2008) Rice University Graduate Council
Rice University Parking Committee Rice University Graduate Council Rice University Islamic Economics, Finance and Management Search Committee Jones School Ad Hoc Faculty Governance Committee (chair) Jones School Ad Hoc MBA for Executives Curriculum Design Committee (chair) Jones School Ad Hoc MBA Curriculum Design Committee Jones School MBA Program Committee (chair) Jones School MBA for Executives Program Committee Jones School / Baylor College of Medicine Certificate Program Committee Jones School Promotion and Tenure Committee Jones School Real Estate Finance Chair Search Committee (chair) Jones School Dean Search Committee (twice) Jones School Enron Chair Search Committee (chair) Jones School Friedkin Chair Search Committee University of South Florida (various dates) Finance Department Doctoral Policy Committee (chair) Finance Department Recruiting Committee (chair) Marketing Department Chair Search Committee Indiana University (various dates) Finance Department Doctoral Committee Finance Department Recruiting Committee Finance Department Research Seminar Coordinator School of Business MBA/CIP Committee School of Business Doctoral Committee University of Illinois-Chicago Dean s Advisory / Promotion and Tenure Committee Finance Department Recruiting Committee Finance Department Head Search Committee Northwestern University (various dates) Associate Director, Banking Research Center Finance Department Recruiting PUBLIC SERVICE First American Savings Association (Chicago): Director (Federal Home Loan Bank Board appointee) 1985-1986 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Various courses in Corporate Finance: Undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Doctoral Financial Institutions: Undergraduate, MBA, Doctoral Information Economics: Doctoral International Finance: Undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA Money and Capital Markets: MBA, Executive MBA Managerial Economics: MBA, Executive MBA Economics of Organizations: MBA, Executive MBA
Non-Degree Executive Programs: various programs in corporate finance, financial markets, and international finance PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Society of Financial Intermediation Conference (various years) Program Committee European Finance Meetings (2007) Program Committee China Conference in Finance (2007) - Program Committee FMA Program Committee (various years) Associate Editor : Journal of Financial Intermediation (1996-2002 ), Journal of Financial Research (2000-2012 ) Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer (past 6 years): Journal of Finance; Review of Financial Studies; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Banking and Finance; Financial Management,; Journal of Financial Services; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Management Science, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting; International Economic Review; European Economic Review; American Economic Review; Economica, Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics RESEARCH INTERESTS Financial Intermediation; Corporate Finance PUBLICATIONS Physics Excitation of Deformation Vibrations by Radiationless Muonic Transitions, (with J.P. Davidson) Nuclear Physics, A180, (1972). Possible Resonance in Muonic W 182, (with J.P. Davidson) Physical Review Letters, 27, No. 3 (1971). PUBLICATIONS Finance Ethics, Welfare, and Capital Markets (with Chris Stefanadis), Games and Economic Behavior Vol. 87, September 2014, pages 34-49. Competition and Managerial Incentives: Board Independence, Information and Predation, (with Jianping Qi), Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages: 136 161 Can Venture Capital Be A Curse? (with Chris Stefanadis), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10 : Issue 1 (Contributions), Article 54, (2010) The Impact of Capital Structure on Advertising Competition: An Empirical Study (with Gustavo Grullon and Piyush Kumar), Journal of Business, 79 (2006), pages 3101-3124. "Dividends and Debt with Managerial Agency and Lender Holdup" (with Jianping Qi) Management Science, 50, (September 2004), pages 1249-1260. Imperfect Competition, Debt, and Exit (with Jianping Qi), Financial Management, 33, (2004), 29-49. Advertising, Breadth of Ownership, and Liquidity (with Gustavo Grullon and James Weston), Review of Financial Studies, 17, (2004), 439-461. "Integration of Lending and Underwriting: Implications of Scope Economies" (with Jianping Qi), Journal of Finance, 58, (June 2003), 1167-1191.
Imperfect Competition, Agency, and Financing Decisions (with Jianping Qi), Journal of Business, 74, No.2 (2001), 307-338. Underwriting by Commercial Banks: Incentive Conflicts, Scope Economies, and Project Quality (with Jianping Qi), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 30, No. 1, (February 1998), 119-133. The Regulation of Bank Capital: Do Capital Standards Promote Bank Safety? (with David Besanko), Journal of Financial Intermediation, 5, No. 2, (1996), 160-183. Asymmetric Information, Dividends, and External Finance (with Michael Anderson), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 5, (1995), 271-290. Production of Tradeables and Rescheduling of Sovereign Debt: Forgiveness, Precommitment and New Money (with A. Boot), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 27, No.2, (May 1995). Credit Market Equilibrium with Bank Monitoring and Moral Hazard (with David Besanko) Review of Financial Studies, 6, No.1 (1993). Collateral in New Palgraves Dictionary of Money and Finance, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, editors, (1992). Dutch Auction versus Fixed Price Self-Tender Offers for Common Stocks (with S. Kamma and S. Raymar), Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2, (Sept. 1992), 277-307. Loan Commitments and the Management of Uncertain Credit Demand (with S. Greenbaum and I. Venezia), Journal of Real Estate, Finance, and Economics, 4, (1991). Rescheduling of Sovereign Debt (with Arnoud Boot) in Geld, Banking, and Versicherungen, H. Goppl and R. Henn, editors, University of Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, 1990, Band 1. Asymmetric Information, Collateral, and Moral Hazard (with K. Igawa), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, (December, 1990). Equilibrium Loan Pricing Under the Bank-Client Relationship (with S. Greenbaum and I. Venezia), Journal of Banking and Finance, 13, (1989). Commercial Paper, Bank Reserve Requirements, and the Informational Role of Back-Up Loan Commitments Journal of Banking and Finance 11, (September 1987). Deposit Insurance and the Discount Window: Pricing Under Asymmetric Information, Journal of Finance, 41, (June 1986). Subordinated Debt and Net Worth in the Savings and Loan Industry (with Jacques Schouppe) Housing Finance Review, 5, (Winter, 1986). Asymmetric Valuations and the Role of Collateral in Loan Agreements (with Yuk-shee Chan), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 17, (February 1985), 84-95. Credit Rationing and Small Business Finance (with S. Greenbaum and S. Deshmukh) in Small Business Finance, P.M. Horvitz and R. Pettit, editors, JAI Press, 42 (1984).
Lending Policies of Financial Intermediaries Facing Credit and Funding Risk (with S. Greenbaum and S. Deshmukh) Journal of Finance, 38, (June 1983); also appears in Geld, Banking and Versicherungen, H. Goppl and R. Henn, editors, University of Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, 1982, Band II. Interest Rate Uncertainty and the Intermediary s Choice of Exposure (with S. Greenbaum and S. Deshmukh) Journal of Finance, 38, (March 1983). Bank Forward Lending in Alternative Funding Environments (with S. Greenbaum and S. Deshmukh) Journal of Finance, 37, (September 1982). Bank Reserve Requirements and Monetary Aggregates (with S. Greenbaum) Journal of Banking and Finance, 6, (December 1982). Developing a Secondary Market for Savings and Loan Association Capital: A Proposal for Reform (with S. Greenbaum) in New Sources of Capital for the Savings and Loan Industry, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, 1979, 18-33. BOOK REVIEW: The Gathering Crisis in Deposit Insurance by Edward J. Kane (MIT Press) 1985, in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, (May 1987), 268-72. WORKING PAPERS Outsourcing, Profit and Risk in Industry Equilibrium (with Jianping Qi) Religion and Corporate (Mis)Behavior (with Gustavo Grullon and James Weston) Culture, Appropriation, and Property Rights Institutions (with Chris Stefanadis)