Faculty/Staff

Jared Williams

Jared Williams

Professor
jwilliams25@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3121
Phone: 813-974-6316

Jared Williams is a Bank of America Professor of Finance in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance.

His primary research interests are in behavioral finance, and he has published in many top journals in business and economics. Before joining USF, he taught at Penn State University's Smeal College of Business and at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

He earned a PhD in finance from Northwestern University and bachelor's degrees in mathematics and economics/business from Hendrix College.

TEACHING

  • FIN 6246 - The Financial System & FinTech Innovation
  • FIN 7930 - Selected Topics in Finance (Doctoral Seminar)

RESEARCH

  • “Coordinated Inattention and Disclosure Complexity” (with T. Kwasnica, H. Qu, and R. Zhao), 2025, Management Science, 71(2): 1581-1599.
  • “The Portfolio-Driven Disposition Effect” (with L. An, J. Engelberg, M. Henriksson, and B. Wang), 2024, Journal of Finance, 79(5): 3459-5015.
  • “When Bankers Go to Hail: Insights into Fed-Bank Interactions from Taxi Data” (with D. Bradley, D. Finer, and M. Gustafson), 2024, Management Science, 70(8): 4995-5015.
  • “The Partisanship of Financial Regulators” (with J. Engelberg, M. Henriksson, and A. Manela), 2023, Review of Financial Studies, 36(11): 4373–4416.
  • “Non-Deal Roadshows, Informed Trading, and Analyst Conflicts of Interest” (with D. Bradley and R. Jame), 2022, Journal of Finance, 77(1), 265-315.

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  • “Stock Market Anomalies and Baseball Cards” (with J. Engelberg and L. Thompson), 2020, Financial Review, 55(3): 461-479.
    • Winner of the Editorial Board Best Paper Award
  • “Asymmetric Learning from Prices and Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift” (with J. Choi and L. Le), 2019, Contemporary Accounting Research, 36(3): 1724-1750.
  • “Did You See what I Saw?  Interpreting Others’ Forecasts when their Information is Unknown” (with T. Kwasnica and R. Velthuis), 2019, Review of Finance, 23(2): 325-361.
    • One of six finalists for the Pagano and Zechner award
  • “The Effects of Regulating Hidden Add-on Costs” (with J. Ko), 2017, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 49(1): 39-74.