Michael Faulkender is an associate dean of master's programs and professor of finance at the

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at the

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. He is known for his research on executive compensation and the corporate tax practices of multinational firms. In March 2018, President

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nominated Faulkender to be

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. As associate dean at Maryland Smith, he helped create the business school’s online master of science degree in business analytics.

Research

Faulkender was awarded the Barclays Global Investors' Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award in the Review of Financial Studies in 2013, for "Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act," co-authored with Mitchell Petersen. Faulkender was a runner-up for that prize in 2006.

Education

Professor Faulkender received B.S. in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis in 1994 and his PhD in finance from Northwestern University in June 2002.

References

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