Scott Guernsey is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Tennessee. He is also a Neel Corporate Governance Center research fellow and Acree Family faculty fellow. Scott earned a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Oklahoma, an M.B.A. in finance, a B.S. in applied mathematics, and a B.A. with a double major in economics and communication from the University of New Mexico. Before joining the Haslam College of Business, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge and served as an advisory editor for the Review of Financial Studies.

Scott’s research focuses on empirical corporate finance, particularly in the areas of corporate governance, innovation, law and finance, capital structure, and labor finance. His work has been published in top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and has been presented at prominent finance conferences, such as the American Finance Association Meeting, the NBER Law and Economics Meeting, the North American SFS Cavalcade Meeting, and the Paris December Finance Meeting, and has won awards at other major conferences.