Bernadette Minton

Dr. Bernadette Minton is Chair of the Department of Finance at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, the Arthur E. Shepard Endowed Professor in Insurance, and Interim Executive Director of The Risk Institute.

Prior to her appointment as department chair in 2016, Dr. Minton served as the inaugural Academic Director of The Risk Institute since its inception in October 2013, as well as its Interim Executive Director. During her tenure, she oversaw growth in The Risk Institute’s profile and its corporate participation. She worked closely with the Institute’s advisory board in coordinating and leading The Risk Institute’s outreach, research and curriculum activities.

Dr. Minton’s research spans a variety of areas within corporate finance, with particular emphasis on risk management, corporate governance and financial institutions.  Her research has been published and highly cited in leading financial economics journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, as well as the financial press.  As a leader in her area of scholarship, Dr. Minton has been recognized for both her research output and her impact in the classroom teaching.  She is a recipient of the Pace Setters Faculty Research Award and Pace Setters Undergraduate teaching Award and is Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics Research Fellow. 

During her time at Ohio State Dr. Minton has developed a number of successful courses in the Undergraduate program.  She currently teaches risk management to Fisher undergraduate students and works with future finance thought leaders in the Department of Finance’s PhD program.  Dr. Minton also is currently actively involved in the college’s Fintech Initiative, leading the development of the undergraduate Fintech Immersion Program and Student Fintech Innovation Competition.

• "Appointments of Outsiders to Japanese Boards: Determinants and Implications for Managers," 
  with Steven N. Kaplan, Journal of Financial Economics (1994)
• "An Empirical Examination of Basic Valuation Models for Plain Vanilla Interest Rates Swaps," 
  Journal of Financial Economics (1997)
• "Why Firms Use Currency Derivatives," 
  with Christopher Géczy and Catherine Schrand, Journal of Finance (1997)
•  "Does Cash Flow Volatility Affect Firm Value: Its Impact on Discretionary Investment and the Costs of Debt and Equity Financing," 
  with Catherine Schrand, Journal of Financial Economics (1999)
• "Interest-Rate Derivatives and Bank Lending," 
  with Elijah Brewer, III and James T. Moser,Journal of Banking and Finance (2000)
• "The Role of Volatility in Valuation," 
  with Catherine Schrand and Beverly Walther, Review of Accounting Studies (2002)
• "The Use of Multiple Risk Management Strategies: Evidence from the Natural Gas Industry," 
  with Christopher Géczy and Catherine Schrand, Journal of Risk (2006)
• "Taking a View: Corporate Speculation and Governance," 
  with Christopher Géczy andCatherine Schrand, Journal of Finance (2007)
• "How Much Do Banks Use Credit Derivatives to Hedge Loans?," 
  with René M. Stulz and Rohan Williamson, Journal of Financial Services Research (2009)
• "The Many Facets of Exchange Rate Exposure," 
  with Sohnke Bartram and Gregory Brown,Journal of Financial Economics (2010)
• "How Has CEO Turnover Changed?," 
  with Steven N. Kaplan, International Review of Finance (2011)
• "Former CEO Directors: Lingering CEOs or Valuable Resources?," 
  with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and Carrie H. Pan, Review of Financial Studies (2011), 3486-3518
• "Financial Expertise of The Board, Risk Taking, and Performance: Evidence from Bank Holding Companies," 
  with Jérôme A. Taillard and Rohan Williamson, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, (2014), Vol (2), 351-380.
• “Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate,” 
  with Jongha Lim and Michael Weisbach, Journal of Financial Economics (January 2014), Vol. 111 (Issue 1), 45-69
• Institutional Investments in Pure Play Stocks and Implications for Hedging Decisions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          with Catherine Schrand, Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming.