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Dr. Tim Trombley

Associate Professor
Office
SFHB State Farm Hall Of Business 434
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Biography

Tim Trombley has a PhD from Purdue University. Before getting his PhD, he worked as a financial analyst for a large commercial real estate firm. He also spent time in the amusement park and electricity industries. He previously worked as a professor at San Diego State University. He is married with five young kids who, unfortunately for them, look exactly like him.

Professor Trombley has published in top academic journals such as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Organization Science, and Journal of Corporate Finance.

Current Courses

FIL 349.001 Advanced Financial Theory And Problems

FIL 349.002 Advanced Financial Theory And Problems

FIL 200.001 History of Financial Innovations from the Medicis to Bitcoin

FIL 190.001 Finance Fundamentals and Career Choices |  Syllabus

FIL 190.004 Finance Fundamentals and Career Choices |  Syllabus

MBA 440.003 Financial Management |  Syllabus

MBA 440.004 Financial Management |  Syllabus

Teaching Interests & Areas

Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Financial History

Research Interests & Areas

Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Politics in Finance, Economic History

PhD Finance

Purdue University

MBA

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

BS Mechanical Engineering

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Outstanding Researcher Award for the College of Business

2024

Encyclopedia

Fundraising in Venture Capital
Trombley, T.
(2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38738-9_49-1

Journal Article

The Customer-Consultant Method of Case Studies
Trombley, T.
Journal of Instructional Techniques in Finance, (2024)
Impact of cultural tightness on vaccination rate
Trombley, T., Jones, J., & Trombley, M.
Risk Management and Insurance Review, 25 (3), 367-389, (2022)
Capital Budgeting Around the World: A Comprehensive Review
Trombley, T., Brincks, S., Haddad, K., & Lotfaliei, B.
Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, 58, (2020)
Early indicators of fundraising by venture capital firms
Trombley, T., & Lahr, H.
Journal Of Corporate Finance, 65, (2020)
The Effect of Interfirm Ties on Performance in Financial Markets
Trombley, T., Yavuz, M., Ozmel, U., & Gulati, R.
Organization Science, (2020)
Outside Insiders: Does Access to Information Prior to an IPO Generate a Trading Advantage After the IPO?
Trombley, T., Yavuz, M., & Ozmel Yavuz, U.
Journal Of Financial And Quantitative Analysis, 54 (1), 303-334, (2019)
Cost of Capital Techniques Used by Chinese Firms: A Survey of Practice.
Trombley, T., & Hadad, K.
Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, (2018)
Performance Effects of Inter-firm Ties in Financial Markets
Ozmel, U., Gulati, R., Trombley, T., & Yavuz, D.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016 (1), 10943, (2016), 10.5465/ambpp.2016.10943abstract

Written Case with Instructional Material

Should Marathon Petroleum Split Up?
Trombley, T., Lotfaliei, B., & Patel, S.
Ivey Publishing, (2020)

Presentations

Banking on Influence: The Impact of Regulatory Pressure on PPP Lending
Tim Trombley, Vladimir Kotomin
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, October, 2024
How Managerial Capital Gains Taxes Increase Deception: Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk
Tim Trombley, Gunratan Lonare, Busra Agcayazi
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, October, 2024
How Managerial Capital Gains Taxes Increase Deception: Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk
Tim Trombley, Gunratan Lonare, Busra Agcayazi
Southwestern Finance Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, February, 2024
How Managerial Capital Gains Taxes Increase Deception: Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk
Tim Trombley, Gunratan Lonare, Busra Agcayazi
Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Fjardo, Puerto Rico, November, 2023
Transmission of Information from Private to Public Markets
Tim Trombley, Shrijata Chattopadhyay, M. Deniz Yavuz, John J. McConnell
34th Mitsui Finance Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, June, 2023
The Cross-Border Buyout Next Door
Tim Trombley, Benjamin Hammer, Denis Schweizer
Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference (FMARC, Larnaka, Cyprus, June, 2023
Value in Waiting to Vaccinate
Tim Trombley, Babak Lotfaliei, Iksu Jurn, Hajar Fatemi
American Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, January, 2023
Impact of Cultural Tightness on Vaccination Rates
Tim Trombley, Jim Jones, Mike Trombley
CNR-ISMed, Naples, Italy, January, 2023
Transmission of Information from Private to Public Markets
Tim Trombley, Shrijata Chattopadhyay, M. Deniz Yavuz, John J. McConnell
Chicago Booth Entrepreneurship Workshop, Chicago, IL, July, 2022
Transmission of Information from Private to Public Markets
Tim Trombley, Shrijata Chattopadhyay, M. Deniz Yavuz, John J. McConnell
Craig Holden Memorial Conference, Bloomington, IN, April, 2022
Transmission of Information from Private to Public Markets
Tim Trombley, Shrijata Chattopadhyay, M. Deniz Yavuz, John J. McConnell
Southern California PE Conference, Pasadena, CA, March, 2022
Tournament Incentives and Corporate Innovation
Tim Trombley, Incheol Kim
Financial Management Association Conference, Denver, CO, October, 2021
Non-Market Factors and the CAPM: The Market Index Effec
Tim Trombley, Babak Lotfaliei, Michael F. Ferguson
Fourteenth Annual Singapore Risk Management Conference, Singapore, July, 2021
Tournament Incentives and Corporate Innovation
Tim Trombley, Incheol Kim
ENTFIN Conference, Online, June, 2021
Long Term Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation
Tim Trombley, Colin Campbell, Haim Kassa
Financial Management Association, Online, October, 2020
Long Term Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation
Tim Trombley, Colin Campbell, Haim Kassa
Financial Management Association, Online, October, 2020
Railroad Tunneling: Self Dealing During the Construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad
Tim Trombley
Business History Conference, Charlotte, NC, March, 2020
It's All Relative: The Effects of Political Connections on Firms
Tim Trombley
Toledo Ohio, , 2019
It's All Relative: The Effects of Political Connections on Firms
Tim Trombley
Chicago Illinois, , 2019
It's All Relative: The Effects of Political Connections on Firms
Tim Trombley
Dayton Ohio, , 2019
Long Term Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation
Tim Trombley, Colin Campbell, Haim Kassa
Baton Rouge Louisiana, , 2019
The Cross-Border Buyout Next Door
Timothy Trombley, Benjamin Hammer, Sven Mettner, Denis Schweizer
Trier Germany, , 2019
The Cross-Border Buyout Next Door
Timothy Trombley, Benjamin Hammer, Sven Mettner, Denis Schweizer
Glasgow Scotland, , 2019
The Cross-Border Buyout Next Door
Timothy Trombley, Benjamin Hammer, Sven Mettner, Denis Schweizer
New Orleans United States of America, , 2019
The Cross-Border Buyout Next Door
Timothy Trombley, Benjamin Hammer, Sven Mettner, Denis Schweizer
New Orleans United States of America, , 2019