Professional Summary
Candace Jens is an associate professor of finance at the Whitman School
of Management at Syracuse University. Her research interests
include firm investment and financing policies, how political
uncertainty and connections affect firms, panel data econometrics, and
the adaptation of machine learning techniques for causal inference.
Education
PhD Finance
2013
University of Rochester
MSBA Applied Economics
2011
University of Rochester
BA Political Science
2008
Niagara University
Interests
Corporate finance
Politics and finance
Machine learning
Publications
(2026).
Balancing external vs. internal validity: An application of causal forest in finance.
Management Science, Vol. 72, No. 4 (April 2026), pp. 3454–3486.
(2024).
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment.
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 37, No. 11 (November 2024), pp. 3335–3385.
(2024).
Uncertainty, precautionary saving, and investment: Evidence from prescheduled election cycles.
Financial Management (lead article).
(2023).
Political uncertainty and firm investment: Project-level evidence from M&A
activity.
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
(2017).
Political Uncertainty and Investment: Causal Evidence from U.S. Gubernatorial
Elections.
Journal of Financial Economics.
Working Papers