Welcome to Mr. James Cicon's webspace
Mr. Cicon is a third year PhD candidate who will enter the job market in October 2010. He teaches 'Financial Management Policy' and 'Portfolio Management' at the University of Missouri.
Mr. Cicon holds a Law Degree, an MBA, and is an experienced computer/software engineer.
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As a computer/software engineer, he worked many years modeling, simulating and designing new products for companies such as Hewlett Packard and Fluke. His formal training includes software development methodologies, database design, C++ / Java, etc. Mr. Cicon has written hundreds of thousands of lines of code and debugged codebases with millions of lines.
His legal background includes teaching Business law for several years and employment in the University's patent office. He studied corporate finance/governance and intellectual property law.
His MBA studies emphasized finance.
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FORTHCOMING PAPERS
- European Corporate Governance Codes: An Empirical Analysis of
their Content, Variability and Convergence (with Stephen Ferris,
Armin Kammel and Gregory Noronha) European Financial Management, forthcoming
- Brockman, Paul and Cicon, James (2009). Impact of Hard and Soft Information on Trading Volume. In Gregoriou, G.N. (ed.), Handbook of Trading. McGraw-Hill, NY
UNDER REVIEW
- Managerial Expectations and the Performance of Acquiring
Firms: The Contribution of Soft Data (with Jonathon Clarke, Steve
Ferris, and Narayanan Jayaraman)
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The Information Content of Management Earnings Forecasts: An
Analysis of Hard versus Soft Data (with Paul Brockman)
WORKING PAPERS
- IPO Underpricing and Soft Information (with Grant McQueen and Jim Brau)
PRESENTATIONS
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Financial Management Association Annual Meetings, 2009
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Brigham Young University, 2009
- Contracting and Organizations Research Institute, 2009
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University of Missouri, 2009
- Financial Management Association
Annual Meetings, 2008
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