Roger K. Loh

Assistant Professor of Finance
Singapore Management University
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
50 Stamford Rd, #04-01
Singapore 178899
rogerloh@smu.edu.sg

 

 

 Background and Research

Full CV (pdf)

Education
Ph.D. in Finance, Ohio State University, 2003-2008
        Dissertation Committee: René M. Stulz (Chair), Andrew Karolyi, Kewei Hou, Karl Diether
M.Sc. (Mgt) National University of Singapore, 2000-2002
B.B.A.  (Finance, 1st Class Honors), National University of Singapore, 1996-2000

Experience
Assistant Professor of Finance, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Jul 2008-present
Research Assistant to G. Andrew Karolyi (2003-06), René M. Stulz (2006-07) Ohio State University
Lecturer of Finance, Singapore Management University, 2002-2003
Asian Equities Research Intern, Credit Suisse First Boston (Singapore Branch), Summer 2000

Research Interests
Security Analysts
Empirical Asset Pricing

Publications
Do accurate earnings forecasts facilitate superior investment recommendations?, 2006, Journal of Financial Economics 80, 455-483, (with Mujtaba Mian).
    Reprinted in CFA Digest 36, Nov 2006, 41-42.

The quality of analysts' earnings forecasts during the Asian crisis: Evidence from Singapore, 2003, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 30, 749-769 (with Mujtaba Mian).

Working Papers
Investor inattention and the underreaction to stock recommendations, May 2009, Dice Center for Financial Economics working paper 2008-2.

Hype my stock: Do firms really want biased research? May 2009.

The return predictability of trends, Sep 2009 (with Mitch Warachka).

When are analyst recommendation changes influential? With René Stulz, May 2009, NBER working paper #14971.
     Featured in Wall Street Journal, 26 May 2009, “Markets often shrug at analysts’ calls”.  
     Profiled in NBER Digest, Sep 2009, and Citigroup Academic Digest, Jun 2009.

Practitioner Articles
Fatal or friendly fees? Unit trusts versus ETFs, Nov 2008.

My Official SMU profile

Seminar series in SMU