Matteo Arena joined Marquette University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Torino in Italy, his M.B.A. from Iowa State University, and his Ph.D. in Finance from University of Missouri. Dr. Arena’s research and teaching field is corporate finance. His current research interests include corporate debt, international corporate finance, corporate governance, litigation risk, and corporate cash holdings. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Financial Research. Professor Arena has previously worked for Procter & Gamble and as an environmental consultant. During his M.B.A. studies, Matteo worked at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University to develop a method that is currently used by NASA astronauts to analyze drinking water on the International Space Station.
Articles
The Effect of Taxes on Multinational Debt Location (with Andrew H. Roper), Journal of Corporate Finance (2010)
We provide new evidence that differences in international tax rates and tax regimes affect multinational...
The Corporate Choice between Public Debt, Bank Loans, Traditional Private Debt Placements, and 144A Debt Issues, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, forthcoming (2010)
The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice...
Takeover Exposure, Agency, and the Choice Between Private and Public Debt (with John S. Howe), Journal of Financial Research (2009)
We examine how governance characteristics are related to the corporate choice between public and private...
A Face Can Launch a Thousand Shares (and a 0.80% abnormal return) (with John S. Howe), Journal of Behavioral Finance (2008)
In this paper we examine the market reaction—price and volume—to the appearance of a firm...
Price Momentum and Idiosyncratic Volatility (with K. Stephen Haggard and Xuemin (Sterling) Yan), Financial Review (2008)
Other
A Face Can Launch a Thousand Shares (and a 0.80% abnormal return) (with John S. Howe), Finance Faculty Research and Publications (2008)
In this paper we examine the market reaction—price and volume—to the appearance of a firm...