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Brett Olsen held a continuous appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Northern Iowa from the 2009-2010 through 2015-2016 academic years, as documented in the UNI Faculty Roster maintained by Special Collections & University Archives. This roster, last updated for the 2015-2016 year and explicitly noted as non-comprehensive and non-routine, establishes his primary institutional affiliation during this seven-year period without indicating any administrative leadership roles.
His research agenda spans high-impact areas including corporate governance mechanisms, ESG disclosure frameworks, and real estate finance dynamics. Early work focused on multinational firm valuation and mortgage refinancing mathematics, evolving toward contemporary regulatory analysis such as materiality thresholds for mine safety disclosures and market reactions to mandatory reporting. Subfield expertise includes bankruptcy-related governance restructuring, CEO-stock performance linkages, ownership concentration effects on liquidity, and finance pedagogy innovations using Excel and online platforms.
Publication trends reveal a strategic pivot from traditional finance topics (2005-2015) toward sustainability regulation and disclosure impacts (2017-2021), demonstrating sustained engagement with market efficiency and governance challenges. His work consistently bridges theoretical finance with practical regulatory implications, particularly in how disclosure mandates alter investor behavior and firm strategy across real estate, mining, and corporate sectors.
