Joshua T. White
Financial Economist
Office of Corporate Finance

Education Summary

  • Ph.D. Finance, University of Tennessee, 2012
  • M.B.A. Finance, University of Tennessee, 2008
  • B.S. Finance, University of Tennessee, 2007

Fields of Interest

  • Corporate disclosure
  • Government policy and regulation
  • Corporate governance
  • Securities offerings
Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2012–present
Research Assistant and Graduate Instructor
The University of Tennessee
2008–2012
  • Sarah Clinton, Joshua White and Tracie Woidtke, Is More Information Better? Deregulation of Voluntary Disclosure Prior to Seasoned Equity Offerings.
  • Joshua White and Tracie Woidtke, Can Deregulation Improve the Information Environment? Analyst Coverage Around the Securities Offering Reform of 2005.
  • Harold Black, Robert Schweitzer, Joshua White and Tracie Woidtke, Do Firms Have Different Preferences for Outside Directors? Evidence from Appointments of Academic Directors, RSFI Working Paper 2013-02.

Conference Activities

Paper presentation and discussant, 2012 FMA Conference
Paper presentation (by co-author), 2012 FARS Conference
Paper presentation and discussant, 2011 FMA Conference
Paper presentation, 2011 AAA Conference
Discussant, 2010 FMA Conference
Paper presentation, 2010 AAA Northeast Conference

University Presentations

University of Delaware, 2012
Corporate Governance Center, University of Tennessee, 2012
University of Tennessee, 2011