Dr. Blake Rayfield
Assistant Professor of Finance
Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida • blake.rayfield@unf.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Full academic and professional history.
Education
University of New Orleans
Ph.D. Financial Economics
University of New Orleans
M.S. Financial Economics
Florida International University
B.A. Finance
Academic Appointments
University of North Florida
Assistant Professor of Finance
Northern Arizona University
Assistant/Associate Professor of Finance (with Tenure)
Indiana State University
Assistant Professor of Finance
Black Hills State University
Assistant Professor of Finance
Courses Taught
Northern Arizona University
- Introduction to Finance
- Student Managed Investment Fund
- Cases in Corporate Finance
- Financial Analysis and Working Capital Management
Indiana State University
- Principles Of Investment
- Business Finance
- Security and Portfolio Analysis
- Speculative Markets and Financial Derivatives
- Financial Modeling
- Applied Financial Modeling
- Applied Portfolio Management
Black Hills State University
- Principles Of Investment
- Business Finance
- Managerial Finance
Publications
Employee Disputes and Innovation Performance: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
IMJF
Corporate Value Creation and the Award of Procurement Contracts
Blake Rayfield, Stephen P. Ferris, Reza Houston
JCAF
The Role of FinTech in the Paycheck Protection Program
Blake Rayfield, Hasib Ahmed, Nicolas Duvernois, Lois Rayfield
International Finance Review
Employee Disputes and Innovation Performance: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
Working Paper
Institutional Monitoring and Litigation Risk: Evidence from Employee Disputes
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
Journal of Financial Research
Corporate governance and employee treatment: Evidence from takeover defenses
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
Journal of Economics and Finance
Do overconfident CEOs stay out of trouble? Evidence from employee litigations
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
Review of Behavioral Finance
Do overconfident CEOs stay out of trouble? Evidence from employee litigations
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
Review of Behavioral Finance
Employee disputes and CEO turnover: Evidence from labor lawsuits
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance
Trends in Financial Innovation: Evidence from Fintech Firms
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
International Finance Review
Trends in Financial Innovation: Evidence from Fintech Firms
Blake Rayfield, Omer Unsal
International Finance Review
Modeling credit risk in credit unions using survival analysis
Blake Rayfield, M. Kabir Hassan, Jennifer Brodmann, Makeen Huda
International Journal of Bank Marketing
The Current Status of Islamic Bank Regulation in the World
Blake Rayfield, M. Kabir Hassan, Jennifer Broadmann
Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance
Awards & Honors
- Fulbright Specialist Grant, Peja, Kosovo
- Most Cited Paper – Journal of Financial Research (2023)
- Undergraduate Research Fellow, Northern Arizona University
- Nominated – Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentorship, NAU (2023)
- Research Mentorship Grant – I2S, Northern Arizona University (2022 – 2023)
- Literati Award – Outstanding Paper, Review of Behavioral Finance (2020)
- Semi-finalist, Best Paper in Corporate Finance, FMA Annual Meeting (2020)
- Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank Grant (2018)
- 2018 FMA Doctoral Student Consortium
- Outstanding PhD Student, University of New Orleans (2016 – 2017)
- Outstanding Graduate Assistant, University of New Orleans (2016)
- Jefferson Financial Credit Union Grant (2015 – 2016)