EDUCATION
University of Kentucky Finance Ph.D. 1993 University of Kentucky Economics M.S. 1992 University of Kentucky Finance B.B.A. 1989
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
E. Baryla, R. Borghesi, W. Dare and S. Dennis. “Learning, Price Formation and the Early Season Bias in the NBA,” forthcoming in Finance Research Letters.
S. Dennis and W. Lu. “New Considerations in the Announcement Effects of Privately Placed Debt,” forthcoming in International Review of Financial Analysis.
S. Dennis, C. Turner and D. Ramsey. “Dual or Duel: Co-CEOs and Firm Performance,” forthcoming in the Journal of Business and Economic Studies. Co-authored with an ETSU graduate student.
S. Dennis, A. Armstrong and D. Ramsey. “The Stock Market Performance of Demutualized Thrifts,” forthcoming in Global Business and Finance Review. Co-authored with two ETSU graduate students.
S. Dennis and I. Sharpe. “Firm Size Dependence in the Maturity of Bank Term Loans,” Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Volume 32, January/March, pp. 31-64, 2005.
D. Preece, D. Mullineaux, G. Filbeck and S. Dennis. “Agency Theory and The House Bank Affair,” Review of Financial Economics, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 259-267, 2004.
S. Dennis and A. Jeffrey. “Structural Changes in Australian Bank Risk,” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, Vol. 12, pp. 1-17, 2002.
S. Dennis, D. Nandy and I. Sharpe. “The Determinants of Contract Terms in Bank Revolving Credit Agreements,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 35, Number 1, pp. 87-110, 2000.
S. Dennis and D. Mullineaux. “Syndicated Loans,” Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 9, Issue 4, pp. 404-426, 2000.
S. Dennis and A. Sim. “Share Price Volatility with the Introduction of Individual Share Futures on the Sydney Futures Exchange,” International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 153-163, 1999.
K. Au, S. Dennis and D. Thurston. “Deposit Insurance, Stochastic Interest Rates, and the Regulation of Depository Institutions,” Research in Finance, Volume 17, pp. 139-151, 1999.
S. Dennis, I. Sharpe and A. Sim. “Implicit Deposit Insurance and Deposit Guarantees: Characteristics of Australian Bank Risk Premia,” Accounting and Finance, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 91-114, 1998.
S. Dennis and I. Suriawinata. “An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Australian Commercial Banks’ Loan-to-Deposit Ratios,” Advances in Pacific-Basin Financial Markets, Volume 3, pp. 227-242, 1997. Co-authored with a UNSW graduate student.
S. Dennis and A. Sim. “An Evaluation of the Deposit Insurance Subsidization of Australian Banks,” Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp. 421-435, 1996.
S. Dennis, M. Raj and D. Thurston. “The Fisher Effect, Inflation, and Real Growth Rates,” Journal of Financial Education, Volume 22, pp. 65-68, 1996.
S. Dennis, M. Raj and D. Thurston. “Interest Rates and Bank Risk,” New York Economic Review, Volume 27, pp. 56-59, 1996.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
Debt Securities, co-authored with Travis Upton and David Wiley, Schweser Study Program (Kaplan Professional Publishing), 2004, ISBN: 1419528955.
PROCEEDINGS
W. Dare and S. Dennis. “A Test for Inherent Characteristic Bias in Betting Markets,” Proceedings of the Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 2008.
N.Beneda, S. Dennis and S. Nelson. “Player Salaries in Major League Baseball, Team Revenues and Profits,” Proceedings of the Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 2008.
S. Dennis and W. Lu. “The Maturity Structure of Private Placements of Debt,” Proceedings of the Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2006.
K. Au, S. Dennis and D. Thurston. “Pricing Deposit Insurance in a Stochastic Interest Rate Environment,” Proceedings of the Derivatives Symposium of the First Annual Asia-Pacific Finance Conference, Sydney, 1994.
S. Dennis and D. Mullineaux. “Agency Problems, Loan Contracts, and the Syndication of Commercial and Industrial Loans,” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, University of New South Wales, 1993.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
S. Dennis and R. Drake. “Banking in Appalachia,” invited article, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, pp. 455-457, University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
S. Dennis. “Free Nation, Free Trade,” featured guest editorial, Johnson City Press, pp. B3-B4, Sunday June 12, 2005.
S. Dennis. “A Land Rush in Financial Services,” invited guest editorial, Johnson City Business, p. 4, February 2005.
S. Dennis. “Are Banks in Real Trouble: A Rebut to the Safe Money Report,” The Business Journal of Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia, p. 44, April 2003.
S. Dennis. “Time for Digital Check Imaging?” The Business Journal of Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia, Volume 15, No. 4, p. 33, 2002.
S. Dennis and D. Thurston. “Deposit Insurance,” Blackwell’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance, edited by D. Paxton, pp. 41-43, 1997, reprinted in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, second edition, Finance, edited by I. Garrett, pp. 39-42, 2005.
WORKING PAPERS
W. Dare, S. Dennis and R. Paul. “Player Absence and Betting Lines in the NBA,” to be submitted to the Southern Economic Journal.
W. Dare and S. Dennis. “A Test for Inherent Characteristic Bias in Betting Markets,” submitted to Economics Letters.
S. Dennis, S. Nelson and N. Beneda. “Player Salaries and Team Performance in Major League Baseball,” submitted to Global Business and Finance Review.
N.Beneda, S. Dennis and S. Nelson. “Player Salaries in Major League Baseball, Team Revenues and Profits,” submitted to the International Journal of Sports Management.
S. Dennis, W. Lu and D. Nandy. “The Maturity Structure of Private Placements of Debt,” revising with new dataset.
S. Dennis. “A Note on Dividend Irrelevance when Firm Control is Important.”
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
S. Dennis and D. Flynn. “The Stock Market Effects of GDP Announcements and Revisions.”
S. Dennis and D. Flynn. “News or Noise: What Moves Stock Prices?”
S. Dennis, J. Haskins, T. O’Keefe and T. Mettelmann. “Are Bank Loan Loss Reserves Materially Overstated?”
S. Dennis, W. Lu and D. Nandy. “Debt Structure, Firm Characteristics and New Debt Issuance.”
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