Hui James

Professor of Finance

Email: hjames@uttyler.edu
Building: COB 350.17
Department: Finance

Degrees

D.B.A., Finance, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, United States, 2010 (Dissertation: Two essays on managerial ownership)
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, 2007
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Xidian University, 2003

Biography

Hui Liang James is an associate professor of finance. She has taught both undergraduate and grade courses, such as Principles of Finance, Managerial Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, and Advanced Financial Management.

Professor James鈥檚 research interests are in corporate governance, such as effective executive compensation design, optimal board structure, political corruption, and the interaction of finance and politics. She studies how governance quality affects various firm policies, including CEO compensation, payout policies, trade credit, working capital management, tax avoidance, earnings management, labor and capital investment efficiency, and cash policies. Her work has been published in numerous articles in prestigious academic journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Journal of Business Research. Her work has also been published in many high-quality journals in the field, such as Financial Review, Accounting & Finance, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

She received the Best-Paper Award at Financial Management Annual Meeting. She is also the recipient of Crystal Quill Research Reward from The University of Texas at Tyler and the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the Soules College of Business.

Teaching Interests

FINA 3311- Principles of Finance

FINA 4340- Managerial Finance

Research

鈥淪o far away from me: firm location and the managerial ownership effect on firm value,鈥� with Bradley Benson, Yu Chen, and Jung Chul Park, (2020), Journal of Corporate Finance, 64, 101658.
鈥淚ndependent director tenure and dividends,鈥� with Hongxia Wang, (2021), Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 48, 1057-1091.
鈥淏usy directors and corporate payout: are all busy directors the same?鈥� with Bradley Benson, Travis Davidson, and Hongxia Wang, (2022), Accounting & Finance, 62(3), 3711-3759.
鈥淐EO fixed effects and inside debt compensation,鈥� with Bradley W. Benson and Jung Chul Park, (2020), Journal of Business Research, 117, 71-86.
鈥淗eterogeneity in the Effect of Managerial Equity Incentives on Firm Value,鈥� with Bradley W. Benson and Jung Chul Park, (2019), Financial Review, 54(3), 583-638.
鈥淢ajor customer and payout flexibility,鈥� with Bo Li, Thanh Ngo, Hongxia Wang, (2022), Quarterly Journal of Finance, 12 (2), 2250002.
鈥淲orking capital management and CEO age,鈥� with Robert Burney and Hongxia Wang, (2021), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 30, 100496.
鈥淐EO Age and Tax Planning,鈥� (2020), Review of Financial Economics, 28, 275-299.
鈥淭he effectiveness of board independence in high-discretion firms,鈥� with Nilakshi Borah and Roger Lirely, (2022), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 85,103-117.

Service

Member, Editorial Reviewer Board, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022-Present