Research Publications

Dr. Boyce Watkins is a faculty affiliate of the College Sports Research Institute at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the winner of the Carter G. Woodson Research Excellence Award.  He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and the Center for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany).   In addition to serving on the Finance faculty at Syracuse University, Dr. Watkins is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics.

“Stock options and the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002” Stock Option Watch, August, 2006.  (solo-authored)

 “The economic and predictive value of trading volume growth: a tale of 3 moments” Applied Financial Economics, forthcoming.  (solo-authored)

Du, Ding and Boyce Watkins, “When competing hypotheses really don’t compete:  A first look at time-variation in cross-autocorrelations” The Journal of Economics and Business, Volume 59, Issue 2, March-April 2007, Pages 130-143

"Do emerging markets with consistent returns have better future performance?", Quantitative Finance, Volume 6 (5), October, 2006.  (solo-authored)

"Institutional ownership and return reversals following short-term return consistency” The Financial Review, Volume 41(3), August 2006(solo-authored)               

“On Government Programs that Increase Small Firms' Access to Capital” The Journal of Small Business Management, Volume 45(1), January 2007 (Solo-authored)

“Riding the Wave of Sentiment: An Analysis of Return Consistency as a Predictor of Future Returns” The Journal of Behavioral Finance, Volume 4(4), 2003 (Solo-authored)

 “Can hybrid fund managers predict changes in aggregate liquidity?” Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Issue 3, 2004. (solo-authored)

“Stock Options and the use of inside information”, Stock Option Watch 6 (December, 2005 – solo authored)