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Education

BS Civil Engineering, Minor: Naval Science - Penn State University 1974
MBA Major: Finance, Minor: International Business - Penn State University 1981
Ph.D. Major: Finance Minor Economics and Quantitative Business Analysis - Penn State University 1987

Selected Works

Articles

Szewczyk, Samuel H, Marciukaityte, Dalia and Varma, Raj . "Voluntary versus Forced Financial Restatements: The Role of Board Independence" FINANCIAL ANALYSTS JOURNAL 65.5 (Oct 2009):51-65

Szewczyk, Samuel H, Marchiukaityte, Dalia , Uzen, Hatice and Varma, Raj . "Governance and Performance Changes after Accusations of Corporate Fraud" FINANCIAL ANALYSTS JOURNAL 62.3 (May 2006):32-41

Szewczyk, Samuel H, Marciukaityte, Dalia and Varma, Raj . "Investor Over Optimism and Private Equity Placements" JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH 28.4 (Dec 2005):591-608

Szewczyk, Samuel H, Uzun, Hatice and Varma, Raj . "The Structure of Corporate Boards and Committees and the Likely of Corporate Fraud,?" FINANCIAL ANALYSTS JOURNAL 60.3 (May 2004):33-44

Song, Wei-Ling and Szewczyk, Samuel H. "?Does Coordinated Institutional Investor Activism Reverse the Fortune of Underperforming Firms??" JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 38. (Jun 2003)

Schweitzer, Robert , Szewczyk, Samuel H and Varma, Raj . "The Effect of Bank Debt Downgrades on Stock Prices of Other Banks" FINANCIAL REVIEW 36. (Dec 2001):139-155

Presentations

Szewczyk, Samuel H, Liu, Yi and Zantout, Zaher . The Post-Announcement Long Term Stock Price Performance of Dividend Reducing or Omitting Firms: Under-Reaction or Chance? Multinational Finance Society : Edinburgh, Scotland, Jul 2006

Szewczyk, Samuel H. Governance and Performance Changes Following Accusations of Corporate Fraud Multinational Finance Society : Athens, Greece, Jul 2005

Szewczyk, Samuel H. Why Firms are Selling Put Options on their stock: Separating Equilibrium through Synthetic Stock Repurchases Financial Management Association : , Oct 2004

Proceedings

Szewczyk, Samuel H and Uzun, Hatice . An Examination of the Relationship between Corporate Fraud and Effectiveness of Internal and External Monitoring Multinational Finance Society Sep 2003 :Sep 2003

Liu, Yi , Szewczyk, Samuel H and Zantout, Zaher . Article Title: An Examination of the Long Run Market Reaction to Announcements of Dividend Omissions and Reductions Multinational Finance Society Sep 2003 :Sep 2003

Song, Wei-Ling , Szewczyk, Samuel H and Tsetsekos, George . Multinational Finance Society Multinational Finance Society Sep 2001 :Sep 2001