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Faculty Profile
Michael Faulkender is an
Assistant Professor of Finance at
the Robert H. Smith School of Business at
the University of Maryland.
Professor Faulkender received his
PhD in Finance in 2002 from
Northwestern University, where he
just finished spending a year as a
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Finance. During the intervening
five years, he was at the Olin
School of Business at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Faulkender’s research focuses on
empirical corporate finance,
primarily in the areas of capital
structure, risk management,
corporate, liquidity, and executive
compensation. His paper “Does the
Source of Capital Affect Capital
Structure” (with Mitchell Petersen)
was awarded the Barclay’s Global
Investors/Michael Brennan Best Paper
Award – Runner Up for 2006 (best
paper published in the Review of
Financial Studies) and his
paper "Hedging or Market Timing?
Selecting the Interest Rate Exposure
of Corporate Debt" was nominated for
the Brattle Prize (best corporate
finance paper in the Journal of
Finance). Faulkender has also
been awarded a research grant from
the FDIC Center for Financial
Research, which was accompanied by
an appointment to serve as a fellow
of the center during the term of the
grant. He is a member of the
American Finance Association, the
Western Finance Association, and the
Society of Financial Studies.
Professor Faulkender teaches the
introductory finance class in the
evening MBA program at the Smith
School. He taught an equivalent
course for four years at the Olin
School, for which he was twice voted
the recipient of the Reid Teaching
Award for excellence in teaching for
a core course. He has also taught
advanced courses in corporate
finance at the undergraduate, MBA,
and Executive MBA levels.
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