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Rankings
 Iowa State University undergraduate students in finance placed first in the annual Krause Challenge investment competition with a 36.3 annualized percent return on investment competing against the University of Iowa, Drake University, and the University of Northern Iowa.

A recent publication by Blaug and  Vane provided a list of "major economists" as measured by citations by peers in top journals of economics finance and statistics.  Approximately 6% of all academic economists were included.  Four ISU faculty members made this list including Dermot Hayes the Pioneer Hybrid Chair in Agribusiness for the College of Business.

Cynthia Campbell, Associate Professor and Principal Financial Group Faculty Fellow of Finance, and Arnold Cowan, Associate Professor and Ganoe Faculty Fellow of Finance, share duties as co-editors of the Financial Review..
Mark Power, Professor of Finance, received the ISU Alumni Association’s Citation for Faculty Service which recognizes Iowa State faculty for inspiring service to students, alumni, the University, and the profession. 

ISI Essential Science Indicators lists “Underwriter Reputation, Initial Returns and the Long-Run Performance of IPO Stocks,” by Richard Carter, Frederick Dark (currently Department Chair of Finance, Department Chair of Finance, and Professor, and Associate Professor of Finance respective) and Ajai Singh (formerly Associate Professor of Finance), in the Journal of Finance February 1998 as a Top Paper in economics and business as measured by their total citation impact.  Since its publication and through February 2003, this paper accumulated 45 citations in journals monitored by the Social Sciences Citation Index. In each case, the number of citations puts these papers well within the range of citations for the top one percent of all articles published in economics and business during their respective publication years.

Frederick Dark, Associate Professor of Finance received the All Star Paper Award bestowed upon the top two papers by average citations per year for each volume of the Journal of Financial Economics.   The paper is “The Choice of Organizational Form: The Case of Franchising” by James A. Brickley and Frederick H. Dark, Journal of Financial Economics, v. 18, n. 1 (June 1987).

 According to the Journal of Finance, our finance faculty rank second in the nation for publications in the top refereed journals when compared with those institutions without a Ph.D. program and 37th when compared to all colleges and universities.


Krause Challenge student representatives for the 2003/2004 academic year presented their results to William Krause and the board of Krause Gentle Corporation.  Iowa State was this year's champion with a 36.3% annualized return on investment.  Representing Iowa State on the left is Meghan Witthoeft.
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