Candace E. Jens

Assistant Professor of Finance

Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University

Biography

Candace Jens is an assistant 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.

Interests

Corporate finance
Politics and finance
Machine learning

Education

PhD Finance, 2013

University of Rochester
MSBA Applied Economics, 2011

University of Rochester
BA Political Science, 2008

Niagara University

Experience

Assistant Professor of Finance

Syracuse

Aug 2022 – Present Syracuse, NY

Assistant Professor of Finance

Tulane

Jul 2015 – Jun 2022 New Orleans, LA

Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance

Tulane

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 New Orleans, LA

Publications

Zhenhua Chen, Mehmet Cihan, Candace E. Jens, T. Beau Page (2021). Political uncertainty and firm investment: Project-level evidence from M&A activity. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming).

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Candace E. Jens (2017). Political Uncertainty and Investment: Causal Evidence from U.S. Gubernatorial Elections. Journal of Financial Economics.

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Tor-Erik Bakke, Candace E. Jens, Toni M. Whited (2012). The real effects of delisting: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design. Finance Research Letters.

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