Brian J. Henderson

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Brian J. Henderson

Associate Professor of Finance


Contact:

Office Phone: (202) 994-3669
2201 G Street NW, Suite 502 Washington, DC 20052

Brian Henderson is an associate professor of finance at the George Washington University School of Business.


  • Ph.D., Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
  • M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
  • B.S., James Madison University, 1999
  • Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
  • Financial Derivatives
  • Financial Risk Management

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • World Markets for Raising New Capital (with Michael Weisbach and Narasimhan Jegadeesh), 2006, Journal of Financial Economics 82(1).
  • Convertible Bond Arbitrageurs as Suppliers of Capital (with Darwin Choi, Mila Getmansky, and Heather Tookes), 2010, Review of Financial Studies 26(3).
  • The Dark Side of Financial Innovation: The Case of a Retail Financial Product (with Neil Pearson), 2011, Journal of Financial Economics 100 (2) [lead article].
  • Do Investment Banks’ Relationships with Investors Impact Pricing? The Case of Convertible Bond Issues (with Heather Tookes), 2012, Management Science 58 (2).
  • Predicting Forecast Errors Through Joint Observations of Earnings and Revenue Forecasts (with Joseph Marks), 2013, Journal of Banking and Finance 37(11).
  • More Than Meets the Eye: Convertible Bond Issuers’ Use of Concurrent Transactions (with Bo Zhao), 2014, Journal of Corporate Finance 24.
  • New Evidence on the Financialization of Commodities (With Neil D. Pearson and Li Wang), 2015,   Review of Financial Studies, 28 (5) [Lead Article].
  • Pre-Trade Hedging: Evidence from the issuance of retail structured products (With Neil D. Pearson and Li Wang), 2020, Journal of Financial Economics, 173 (1).
  • Retail Derivatives and Sentiment: A Sentiment Measure Constructed from Issuances of Retail Structured Equity Products (With Neil D. Pearson and Li Wang), 2023, Journal of Finance, 78(4).

Working Papers

  • Do municipal bonds markups reflect audit quality? (with Angela Gore and Yuan Ji)  Revise & Resubmit at Review of Accounting Studies.
  • Shorting Fees, Private Information, and Smart Lending (with Gergana Jostova and Alexander Phillipov) Reject & Resubmit, Management Science.
  • Bond Returns and Bond Lending” with Neil D. Pearson and Mike Anderson
  • “Cross-ETF Arbitrage” with Adam Reed and Spenser Andrews

Peer-reviewed Professional Journal Articles

  • Monetary Policy and Interest Rate Factors (with Gerald Buetow), 2009, Journal of Fixed Income 19(2).
  • An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Traded Funds (with Gerald Buetow), 2012, Journal of Portfolio Management, 38(3).
  • The Performance of Leveraged and Inverse Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds (with Gerald Buetow), 2014, Journal of Investment Management, 12
  • Are Flows Costly to ETF Investors? (with Gerald Buetow), 2014, Journal of Portfolio Management, 40(3).
  • The VIX Futures Basis: Determinants and Implications (with Gerald Buetow), 2015,  Journal of Portfolio Management, 42 (2).
  • An Empirical Analysis of  Non-Traded REITs (with Joshua Mallett and Craig McCann), 2016,  Journal of Wealth Management, 19 (1).

Chapters Appearing in Edited Books

  • The Term Structure of Interest Rates, in The Professional Risk Manager’s Handbook, ed. Carol Alexander and Elizabeth Sheedy, 2008, updated 2014.
  • Measuring Interest Rate Risk, in The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (9th Ed.), ed. Frank J. Fabozzi and Steven Mann. McGraw Hill Publishers, 2021.
  • Term Structure Modeling With No-Arbitrage Interest Rate Models, in The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (9th Ed.), ed. Frank J. Fabozzi and Steven Mann. McGraw Hill Publishers, 2021.
  • Valuation of Interest Rate Swaps and Swaptions, in The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (9th Ed.), ed. Frank J. Fabozzi and Steven Mann. McGraw Hill Publishers, 2021.