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Colette Southam

Assistant Professor, Finance-Economics

Education

  • BSc, Guelph
  • MBA, N. Arizona
  • PhD, Richard Ivey School of Business

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Colette Southam is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Richard Ivey School of Business. She earned an Honours B.Sc. in molecular biology and genetics (Guelph), an MBA (N. Arizona) and a Ph.D. in finance (Ivey). Professor Southam previously taught at Northern Arizona University. Prior to her graduate studies, Dr. Southam was a geneticist with the Ontario Veterinary College where she worked with a team from academia, the Biotech Industry, and Health Canada to develop gene probes to diagnose pathogens in food.

Dr. Southam began her teaching at the Richard Ivey School of Business in 2004 and it has spanned the undergraduate (international finance, introductory finance and Ivey Consulting Project), executive MBA (international strategic financial planning), and doctoral (corporate finance and financial fundamentals) programs. Dr. Southam was the recipient of the David Burgoyne Award for Outstanding Commitment to Student Development in 2007.

Dr. Southam's primary research interest is international finance. She is interested in the segmentation of the global capital and executive labour markets and its mitigation by cross-listing, and strives to provide insight into the compensation practices that have been accused of encouraging excessive risk-taking during the recent financial crisis.

Teaching

  • International Finance, HBA and EMBA
  • Ivey Consulting Project
  • Corporate Finance, PhD

Selected Publications

  • "Compensation Across Executive Labor Markets: What Can We Learn from Cross-Listed Firms?" joint work with S. Sapp in Journal of International Business Studies, 2010, 41(1): 70-87.
  • "Impact of IPO Coalition on Deal Completion" joint work with K. Boeh. Revise and Resubmit to Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 2011.
  • "Geographic Diversification and Joint Ownership Control in Economic Crisis:Real Options versus Risk Diversification" joint work with C. Chung, S-H. Lee, P. Beamish. Revise and Resubmit to Journal of World Business, 2010.
  • "Cloning and nucleotide sequencing of the genes determining verocytotoxin production in porcine edema disease isolates of E. coli." joint work with C.L. Gyles, S. De Grandis, and J.L. Brunton in Microbial Pathogenesis 5: 419-426.
  • "Sediment Bacterial Populations and Methodologies to Study the Populations Important to Xenobiotic Degradation in Sediments." joint work with G. Southam in in A. Mudroch, J. Azcue and Paul Mudrock (eds), Manual of Bioassessment of Aquatic Sediment Quality. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers.

Experience

  • Geneticist, Ontario Veterinary College
  • Lecturer, Northern Arizona University

Expertise

  • Investment Banking
  • Corporate Finance
  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Executive Compensation
  • Cross-listed Firms
 

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