Larry Merville

Professor of Finance

Email: merville@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-2711

Home page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~merville

Education:
- PhD In Finance, The University of Texas at Austin, 1971
- MBA in Finance, The University of Texas at Austin, 1968
- BA in Physics, Vanderbilt University, 1965

Classes:
Financial Management
Investments

Current / recent research:
- The Closed-End Mutual Fund Puzzles: A Congruent Models Approach, with A. Chen and C. Won, Working paper, UTD.
- The Factor Structure of Equity Returns, with Y. Xu, Working Paper, UTD.
- Identifying the Factor Structure of Equity Returns, with S. Hayes-Yelken and Y. Xu, Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 2001, forthcoming, pp. 1-28.
- A Contingent-Claim Analysis of the Closed-End Mutual Fund Discount Puzzle, with A. Chen and C. Won, Research in Finance, Vol. 18, Spring 2001, pp. 105-132.
- An Analysis of the Underreported Magnitude of the Total Indirect Costs of Bankruptcy, with Gongmeng Chen, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 13, 1999, pp. 277-293.
- A Unified Model of Corporate Acquisitions and Divestitures: An Incentive Perspective, with Yoon Choi, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 10, 1998, pp. 127-154.

Current professional organization(s):
- Member of American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, and The Society for Financial Studies 
- Associate Editor of Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and China Review of Accounting Finance journals

Community involvement:
Dallas Economist Club

Awards and recognition:
Valedictorian
Phi Beta Kappa
Who's Who in Finance and Industry