Tyler Hull
Department:
Accounting & Finance
Title:
Associate Professor
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05
Biography
Dr. Hull is an Associate Professor of Finance whose research focuses on empirical corporate finance, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and personal finance. His work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Corporate Finance, Emerging Markets Review, Financial Review, and Journal of Banking and Finance.
Area of Expertise
Empirical corporate finance, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, dividend policy, entrepreneurial finance, and personal finance.
Degrees
- PhD, International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University (2011)
- MS, International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University (2009)
- BS, Economics, Brigham Young University–Idaho (2006)
Professional Publications & Contributions
Publications
- “Labor Demand Similarity and Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence From 3 Million Job Postings” (With Mingming Ao, John (Jianqiu) Bai, Chen Shen and Chi Wan) Financial Review (2026)
Podcast overview for “Labor Demand Similarity and Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence From 3 Million Job Postings” - “Individual ethics and economic policy uncertainty” (With Ping McLemore and Uchenna Onuoha) Emerging Markets Review (2026).
Podcast overview for “Individual ethics and economic policy uncertainty” - “What drives venture capitalists to stray from their preferred investment industries?
- ”Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (2025).
Podcast overview for “What drives venture capitalists to stray from their preferred investment industries?” - “Student Loans, Employment Readiness, and Labor Market Outcomes” (with Karthik Krishnan and Jean Rhodes) Journal of Applied Business and Economics (2023).
Podcast overview for “Student Loans, Employment Readiness, and Labor Market Outcomes” - “Style drifts in venture capital” Book Chapter in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity (2023).
Podcast overview for “Style drifts in venture capital” - “Are California Venture Capitalists The Best Venture Capitalists?” (with Luna Goldblatt) Cogent Economics & Finance (2022)
Podcast overview for “Are California Venture Capitalists The Best Venture Capitalists?” - “The effect of venture capitalists straying from their industry comfort zones,” Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2021).
Podcast overview for “The effect of venture capitalists straying from their industry comfort zones,” - “Cross-Border LBOs, Human Capital, and Proximity: Value Addition through Monitoring in Private Equity Investments” (with Thomas J. Chemmanur and Karthik Krishnan), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2020).
Podcast overview for “Cross-Border LBOs, Human Capital, and Proximity: Value Addition through Monitoring in Private Equity Investments” - “Do local and international venture capitalists play well together? Venture capital investments and the development of venture capital markets” (with Thomas J. Chemmanur and Karthik Krishnan), Journal of Business Venturing (2016).
- “How the timing of dividend reductions can signal value”, Journal of Corporate Finance (2015).
Podcast overview for “How the timing of dividend reductions can signal value” - “Does the timing of dividend reductions signal value? Empirical evidence” Journal of Corporate Finance (2013).
- “The impact of technical defaults on dividend policy” (with Laarni Bulan), Journal of Banking and Finance (2013)
Additional Information
- Joined UMass Boston in 2016
- More than 17 years of teaching experience
- Taught undergraduate, graduate, PhD, and executive education students
- Teaching appointments at UMass Boston, Brandeis University, the Norwegian School of Economics, and UC Santa Barbara
- Serves in finance curriculum leadership roles