Masahiro Watanabe

Associate Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Finance

Contact

Associate Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Finance
Email
masa@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-7343
Address
3-30J Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2R6

Overview

Research

Research Interests

My research interests include asset pricing and market microstructure, both theoretical and empirical. You can see download statistics about my research papers at my SSRN author home page.


Teaching

Teaching Interests

  • International Finance

Courses

FIN 442 - International Financial Markets

An overview of the international financial environment and the financial function in the multinational corporation. Its purpose is to provide decision-making skills in international money and capital markets. Prerequisite: FIN 301.


FIN 644 - International Finance

The objective of this course is to acquaint students with macro and micro aspects of international finance. At the macro level coverage will include theories of direct investment, the international monetary mechanism, foreign exchange markets, and repercussions from balance of payments difficulties. Micro level materials will include problems of doing business internationally and a survey of public and private foreign and international finance institutions. The final part of the course will review Canada's role in international business. Prerequisite: FIN 501 or 503.


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Scholarly Activities

Research - Publications

"Strategic Disclosure and Stock Returns: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cross-listing," (with Shingo Goto and Yan Xu), Review of Financial Studies, 2009, 22 (4), 1585-1620. Technical Appendix
2007 FMA Best Paper Award in Financial Institutions

"Time-Varying Liquidity Risk and the Cross Section of Stock Returns" (with Akiko Watanabe), Review of Financial Studies, 2008, 21 (6), 2449-2486.
First place, 2006 Turnaround Management Association Paper Competition

Featured Publications

Masahiro Watanabe

Review of Financial Studies. 2014 January;


Masahiro Watanabe, Takato Hiraki, Akiko Watanabe

2012 January;


Masahiro Watanabe, William N. Goetzmann, Akiko Watanabe

2010 January;


Masahiro Watanabe, Jacob Sagi, Matthew Spiegel

2009 January;


Masahiro Watanabe, Evgeny Lyandres

2009 January;


Masahiro Watanabe, Stephen J. Brown, William N. Goetzmann, Takato Hiraki, Noriyoshi Shiraishi

NBER #9470, Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-09. 2005 January;


Masahiro Watanabe, Zhiwu Chen, Werner Stanzl

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-66. 2005 January;


Masahiro Watanabe

Journal of Finance. 63(1)