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Richard P. Hauser serves as an Associate Professor within the Accounting Program at Gannon University, where he teaches undergraduate courses including Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions (FINC 201) and Financial Management I (BCOR 311). His prior academic experience includes a Teaching Fellowship at Kent State University (2007-2012), during which he instructed undergraduate and graduate courses in business finance, investments, and financial systems.
Dr. Hauser's educational qualifications are:
- PhD in Finance, Kent State University, 2012 (Dissertation: 'The firm life-cycle hypothesis and dividend policy: Tests on propensity to pay, dividend initiation, and dividend growth rates')
- MBA, California Coast University, 2006
- BS in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1989
His research interests center on dividend policy, valuation, corporate finance, and corporate bankruptcy. He employs robust statistical methodologies, particularly logistic regression, to investigate topics such as executive compensation structures and financial distress prediction. His work often examines the interplay between firm life-cycle stages and financial decision-making, including dividend initiation and growth.
Dr. Hauser has published two peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Data Science (2011) that apply robust logistic regression to CEO bonus analysis and bankruptcy prediction. These publications reflect his commitment to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of finance and data science, addressing practical corporate finance challenges with advanced quantitative techniques.
