Education
- Ph D: Finance, (2006), Michigan State University
- MBA: Finance, (2002), State University of New York at Buffalo
- BS: Materials Engineering, (1995), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Selected Publications
- Johnson, W., Markelevich, A. (). AI and the Future of Data in Financial Markets. Law and Financial Markets Review.
- Johnson, W., Scharnowski, S. (). Price Discovery through Wrapped Tokens. Economics Letters, 257(112703).
- Johnson, W. (). Valuing cryptocurrencies: A model of price and hashrate. Finance Research Letters, 86(108346).
- Johnson, W., Karpoff, J. (University of Washington), Wittry, M. (The Ohio State University) (). The Consequences to Directors of Deploying Poison Pills. Management Science.
- Eisikovits, N., Johnson, W., Markelevich, A. (2024). Should Accountants Be Afraid of AI? Risks and Opportunities of Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Accounting and Auditing. Accounting Horizons, 1-7.
- Johnson, W., Markelevich, A. (Suffolk University) (2023). GAAP Taxonomy Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets (pp. 2). FASB Comment Letter
- Johnson, W. (UMass Lowell), Karpoff, J. (University of Washington), Yi, S. (Sogang University) (2022). The Life Cycle Effects of Corporate Takeover Defenses. Review of Financial Studies, 35(6) 2879-2927.
- Johnson, W., Kang, J. (Nanyang University), Masulis, R. (University of New South Wales), Yi, S. (Sogang University) (2018). Seasoned Equity Offerings and Customer-Supplier Relationships. Journal of Financial Intermediation, 33 98-114.
- Johnson, W., Karpoff, J. (University of Washington), Yi, S. (Sogang University) (2015). The Bonding Hypothesis of Takeover Defenses: Evidence from IPOs. Journal of Financial Economics, 117(2) 307-332.
Selected Presentations
- The Consequences to Directors of Deploying Poison Pills, April 2022 - Waco, TX
- The Lifecycle Effects of Takeover Defenses - conference on Finance and Firm Lifecycles, 2019