Stephen McKeon

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Degree History:

PhD, Purdue University, 2011
MS, Purdue University, 2009
BS, University of Oregon, 2000

Research/Teaching Awards:

Ripple Faculty Fellowship, 2020-Present
Harry R. Jacobs, Jr. Professional Service Award, 2017
Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2016
James E. Reinmuth MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2012 and 2015
Financial Research Association Michael J. Barclay Award, 2012
Best Paper, Early Career Researcher - Capital Markets CRC, 2012
Krannert Certificate for Distinguished Teaching, Purdue University, 2009

Bio:

Stephen McKeon is an associate professor in the Department of Finance, an Inman Research Scholar, and the academic director of the Cameron Center for Finance and Securities Analysis at the Lundquist College of Business. His expertise includes cryptoassets, private equity, and corporate risk-taking. He has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

McKeon received his PhD from Purdue University while teaching as a graduate student instructor. His professional experience includes Collab+Currency, a venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco and New York, and he previously served as the chief financial officer of a winery in Napa Valley. He co-founded Skyward, a commercial drone software company, which was acquired by Verizon in 2017.

McKeon, Stephen. "Measuring Equity Issuance."

Cryptocurrency
Venture capital
Private equity

Journal Articles

Denis, David J., and Stephen B. McKeon. "Persistent Negative Cash Flows, Staged Financing, and the Stockpiling of Cash Balances." Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3622453.
September 2020
Cain, Matthew D., Stephen B. McKeon, and Steven Davidoff Solomon. "Intermediation in Private Equity: The Role of Placement Agents." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 55, no. 4: 1095-1116. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109019000371.
June 2020
Fitzpatrick, Scott, and Stephen McKeon. "Banking on Stone Money: Ancient Antecedents to Bitcoin." Economic Anthropology 7, no. 1: 7-21. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12154.
January 2020
Cain, Matthew D., Stephen B. McKeon, and Steven Davidoff Solomon. "Do Takeover Laws Matter? Evidence from Five Decades of Hostile Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 124, no. 3: 464-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.04.003.
June 2017
Denis, David J., and Stephen B. McKeon. "Proactive Leverage Increases and The Value of Financial Flexibility." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 28, no. 4: 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacf.12204.
September 2016
Cain, Matthew D., and Stephen B. McKeon. "CEO Personal Risk-Taking and Corporate Policies." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 51, no. 1: 139-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109016000041.
February 2016
Denis, David J., and Stephen B. McKeon. "Debt Financing and Financial Flexibility: Evidence from Proactive Leverage Increases." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 6: 1897-1929. https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhs005.
June 2012

Book Chapters

McKeon, Stephen, and Derek Edward Schloss. "Law and Blockchains." In The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, edited by Raghavendra Rau, Robert Wardrop, and Luigi Zingales, 311-335. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65117-6.
September 2021
Benedetti, Hugo, Stephen McKeon, and Cameron Pfiffer. "Blockchain Trading and Exchange." In The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, edited by Raghavendra Rau, Robert Wardrop, and Luigi Zingales, 337-383. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65117-6.
September 2021
McConnell, John J., Stephen B. McKeon, and Wei Xu. "Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure." In Corporate Governance: A Synthesis of Theory, Research, and Practice, edited by H. Kent Baker and Ronald Anderson, 303-322. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118258439.ch16.
November 2011

Technical Reports

Rauchs, Michel, Apolline Blandin, Keith Bear, and Stephen McKeon. "2nd Global Enterprise Blockchain Benchmarking Study."
September 2019

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