James Malm, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Finance

Education

University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Ph.D., Finance, May 2014
M.S., Operations Management, December 2009

Stellenbosch University - Cape Town, South Africa
Postgraduate Diploma, Mathematical Sciences, June 2005

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - Kumasi, Ghana
B.S., Electrical Engineering (1st Class Honors), July 2003

Research Interests

Empirical Corporate Finance, Capital Structure, Investments, International Finance, Real Estate, Operations Management, Applied Econometrics

Courses Taught

• Financial Management Information Systems
• Intermediate Financial Management
• Business Finance
• Computerized Management Information Systems Lab
• Introduction to Operations Management

Selected Publications

Working Capital Mis (management) - Impact of Executive Age (with Adhikari, H., Krolikowski, M.
and Sah, N.), forthcoming, Accounting and Finance.

Litigation Risk and Payout Policy (with Kanuri, S.), Managerial Finance, 2020, Vol. 46, Issue 11, pp. 1391-1406.

Do Women Managers Keep Firms Out Of Trouble? Evidence From Corporate Litigation and Policies (with Adhikari, B. and Agrawal, A.), Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2019, Vol. 67, pp. 202-225.

Litigation Risk and Working Capital (with Sah, N.), Managerial Finance, 2019, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 88-102.

Litigation Risk, Financial Distress, and the Use of Subsidiaries (with Ligon, J. A.), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 2018, Volume 67, pp. 255-272.

Honors & Awards

• Outstanding MBA Professor, School of Business, College of Charleston, Class of 2020
• Outstanding MBA Professor, School of Business, College of Charleston, Class of 2019
• Outstanding MBA Professor, School of Business, College of Charleston, Class of 2017
• Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, School of Business, College of Charleston, Class of 2017
• ExCEL Award, Outstanding Faculty of the Year, School of Business, College of Charleston, Class of 2017