Felix Meschke
- Associate Professor
- Director, Davis Center for Figure Sense
- Finance academic area
Contact Info
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Biography —
Before joining KU, Felix Meschke taught in the undergraduate, part-time MBA, and international executive MBA programs at the University of Minnesota. His academic work has examined corporate donations to political parties, information transmission between corporate insiders and sophisticated traders, the effect of media attention on stock prices, and the disappearance of portfolio pumping (the practice of buying additional shares of illiquid stocks to inflate performance at the end of reporting periods) among U.S. mutual funds. His article in the Journal of Financial Economics shows that the well-known inverse-U relationship between managerial stock ownership and firm is not an instance of cause and effect. In other work, Meschke has shown that employees who work for active founders rate their companies higher than employees in non-family firms, and that employee assessments predict firm performance. His research has garnered significant media attention, including articles in The Wall Street Journal, Time Business, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes and Huffington Post.
Teaching
Meschke teaches Investment Theory & Applications at the undergraduate level and Investment Theory and Investment Analysis at the MBA level. Before joining KU, he taught in the undergraduate, part-time MBA, and international executive MBA programs at the University of Minnesota.
Education —
Research —
Research interests:
- corporate finance
- corporate governance
- mutual funds
- international finance
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- Investment Theory
- Finance Case Studies
Selected Publications —
<div class="fp-publications fp-container"><div class="aca-article">Huang, M., Masli, A., Meschke, F., Guthrie, J. (2017). Clients' Workplace Environment and Corporate Audits. AUDITING A Journal of Practice and Theory - Issue 4 | Volume 36. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2308/AJPT-51691">https://doi.org/10.2308/AJPT-51691<… class="aca-article">Akbas, F., Meschke, F., Wintoki, J. (2016). Director networks and informed traders. Journal of Accounting and Economics - Issue 1 | Volume 62. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JACCECO.2016.03.003">https://doi.org/10.1016/… class="aca-article">Huang, M., Li, P., Meschke, F., Guthrie, J. (2015). Family firms, employee satisfaction, and corporate performance. Journal of Corporate Finance - Volume 34. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCORPFIN.2015.08.002">https://doi.org/10.1016… class="aca-article">Aggarwal, R., Meschke, F., Wang, T. (2012). Corporate Political Donations: Investment or Agency?. Business and Politics - Issue 1 | Volume 14. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/1469-3569.1391">https://doi.org/10.1515/1469-35… class="aca-article">Coles, J., Lemmon, M., Meschke, F. (2012). Structural Models and Endogeneity in Corporate Finance: The Link Between Managerial Ownership and Corporate Performance. Journal of Financial Economics - Issue 1 | Volume 103.</div><div class="aca-article">Kelly, P., Meschke, F. (2010). Sentiment and stock returns: The SAD anomaly revisited. Journal of Banking and Finance - Issue 6 | Volume 34. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.11.027">https://doi.org/10.1016…;
Awards & Honors —
Association of Business Doctoral Students Mentor of the Year Award, 2024
MBA Finance Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, 2023
Jack and Anne Bowling Business Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, 2023
Byron T. Shutz Trust Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016
Henry A. Bubb Award for Teaching Excellence, 2016
Guy O. and Rosa Lee Mabry Best Paper Award, KU School of Business, 2013