Haslam College of Business - Matthew Serfling

Biography

Matthew Serfling is the Clayton Homes Chair of Excellence in Finance and a professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. He is a corporate finance scholar whose research focuses on how labor markets, corporate governance, regulation and nonfinancial stakeholders affect corporate policies, risk, performance and firm value.

Serfling’s research has examined employment protection, worker mobility, hiring and wage-setting regulations, boards of directors, takeover defenses, managerial characteristics, customer-supplier relationships, regional business clusters, corporate disclosure and the cost of capital. His work has appeared in many of the leading journals in finance, accounting and management, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Accounting Research. His research has also been featured in the Harvard Business Review and leading corporate-governance forums.

Serfling is an associate editor of Financial Management and the Journal of Financial Research, as well a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.