Chris Muscarella

Chris J. Muscarella is Professor of Finance and the L. W. 'Roy' and Mary Lois Clark Teaching Fellow at the Smeal College of Business Administration of The Pennsylvania State University. His teaching interests center on corporate finance and he has won twenty-one teaching awards from the Master of Business Administration students at Penn State. He has been ranked as one of the outstanding faculty at Penn State in the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. He was named a J. William Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Portuguese Catholic University for the spring of 2001.Prior to coming to Penn State, he held an appointment as Senior Financial Economist with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC where he worked on insider trading cases and public policy issues. Professor Muscarella has served on the faculties of the Darden School at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, Southern Methodist University, the University of Utah, the University of Texas, Duke University, the University of Oregon and the University of Notre Dame. He has also taught in executive MBA programs and numerous executive education programs. Professor Muscarella has authored case studies that are used in universities all over the U.S.

Expertise

Professor Muscarella's current research interests include the valuation of corporate patents and the impact of management compensation plans on corporate spending decisions. He has published numerous research articles including papers in The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics,The Journal of Financial Research, The European Finance Review and The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. His research has over 3000 citations in textbooks and academic journals and has been highlighted in The New York Times, Fortune, The Economist, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Dallas Morning News and The CFA Digest. Professor Muscarella has made over fifty research presentations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He is a former Associate Editor for The Journal of Financial Research. He served as Program Chair for the 2002 Financial Management Association annual conference and as President of FMA in 2005.

Education

• PhD Purdue University Krannert School of Management
• MBA University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business
• BS University of Notre Dame
• Mater Dei Prep

Companies

• Professor Emeritus of Finance Penn State Smeal College of Business (2017)
• Adjunct Professor of Finance Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business (2019 — 2020)
• Visiting Professor of Finance University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist College of Business (2019 — 2019)
• Visiting Professor of Finance The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2018 — 2018)
• Visiting Professor of Finance The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business (2018 — 2018)
• Professor of Finance Penn State University (1991 — 2017)
• Visiting Professor of Finance Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (2001 — 2001)
• Visiting Professor École des Ponts Business School (2000 — 2000)
• Senior Financial Economist US Securities and Exchange Commission (1990 — 1991)

Skills

• Business Strategy
• Strategy
• Leadership