Kelly Carter

Dr. Kelly Carter is an Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Business and Management (SBM) at Morgan State University, located in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a PhD from the University of South Florida, an MS and MBA from the University of Maryland, and a BS from Florida A&M University.

Her research focuses on intersections of corporate governance, labor economics, and political influences in finance. Notable themes include superstar worker impacts on shareholder value, regulatory effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and labor-management dynamics in production efficiency. She has published extensively in journals like Managerial Finance, Eastern Economic Journal, and Managerial and Decision Economics.

Dr. Carter's work frequently employs empirical methodologies to explore unique contexts such as professional sports economics and gig economy labor markets. Her recent studies investigate investor sentiment's paradoxical relationship with rational information processing, leveraging sports franchises as experimental settings.

Her academic service includes contributions to book chapters like 'Corporate Bond Markets' for Oxford University Press and practitioner summaries in platforms like Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog and the American Accounting Association's research summaries.