Travis Sapp

Iowa State University - Department of Finance

Associate Professor

3362 Gerdin Business Bldg.

Ames, IA 50011-1350

United States

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Mutual Fund Flows and Investor Returns: An Empirical Examination of Fund Investor Timing Ability

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 31, pp. 2796-2816, 2007
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
Geoffrey C. Friesen and Travis Sapp
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - Department of Finance and Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Mutual fund performance, fund cash flows, investor timing, fund clienteles

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Shell Games: On the Value of Shell Companies

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, pp. 850-867, 2011
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2011
Ioannis V. Floros and Travis Sapp
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Finance and Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Shell Company, Reverse Merger, Reverse Takeover, Reverse Acquisition, Alternative Asset, SPACs, PIPEs

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The 52-Week High, Momentum, and Predicting Mutual Fund Returns

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 37, pp. 149-179, 2011
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2011
Travis Sapp
Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Mutual fund selection, stock return momentum, momentum trading, momentum investing, momentum profits, 52-week high, return predictability, smart money effect

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Investor Timing and Fund Distribution Channels

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2010
Mercer Bullard, Geoffrey C. Friesen and Travis Sapp
University of Mississippi - School of Law, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - Department of Finance and Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Mutual fund performance, fund cash flows, investor timing, fund share classes

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Does Stock Return Momentum Explain the 'Smart Money' Effect?

Journal of Finance, Vol. 59, pp. 2605-2622, 2004
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Oct 2003 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
Travis Sapp and Ashish Tiwari
Iowa State University - Department of Finance and University of Iowa
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Mutual Fund Cash Flows, Smart Money, Momentum, Performance of fund investors

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Why Do Firms Issue Private Equity Repeatedly? On the Motives and Information Content of Multiple PIPE Offerings

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 36, pp. 3469-3481, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2020
Ioannis V. Floros and Travis Sapp
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Finance and Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Private placements, hedge funds, cash balances, market feedback

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Estimating Continuous-Time Stochastic Volatility Models of the Short-Term Interest Rate: A Comparison of the Generalized Method of Moments and the Kalman Filter

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Sep 2009
Travis Sapp
Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Stochastic volatility, short interest rate, generalized method of moments, GMM, Kalman filter, quasi-maximum likelihood

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Insider Trading Ahead of Cyber Breach Announcements

Journal of Financial Markets, September 2020
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2020
Zhaoxin Lin, Travis Sapp, Jackie Rees Ulmer and Rahul Parsa
Iowa State University, Iowa State University - Department of Finance, Iowa State University and Iowa State University
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Insider Trading, Data Breach, Opportunistic Trading, SEC Enforcement Action

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Characterizing the Risk of IPO Long-Run Returns: The Impact of Momentum, Liquidity, Skewness, and Investment

Financial Management, Vol. 40, pp. 1067-1086, 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 03 May 2012
Richard B. Carter, Rick Dark, Ioannis V. Floros and Travis Sapp
Iowa State University, Iowa State University - College of Business, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Finance and Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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Initial public offering, momentum, liquidity, skewness, investment, new issues puzzle

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Security Concentration and Active Fund Management: Do Focused Funds Offer Superior Performance?

The Financial Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 27-49, February 2008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Aug 2009
Travis Sapp and Xuemin Sterling Yan
Iowa State University - Department of Finance and Lehigh University - College of Business
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mutual fund performance, focused fund, security concentration, best ideas

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Efficient Estimation of Distributional Tail Shape and the Extremal Index With Applications to Risk Management

Journal of Mathematical Finance,Vol. 6, pp. 626-659, 2016
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 May 2017
Travis Sapp
Iowa State University - Department of Finance
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The Nasdaq-Amex Merger, Nasdaq Reforms, and the Liquidity of Small Firms

Journal of Financial Research, Vol. 26, pp. 225-242, 2003.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Dec 2002 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
Travis Sapp and Xuemin Sterling Yan
Iowa State University - Department of Finance and Lehigh University - College of Business
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Stock Return Momentum and Investor Fund Choices

Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 4, No. 3, Third Quarter 2006
Posted: 03 Oct 2006
Travis Sapp and Ashish Tiwari
Iowa State University - Department of Finance and University of Iowa

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Mutual fund selection, stock return momentum, investor behavior

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Pricing Cyber Security Insurance

Lin, Zhaoxin, Travis Sapp, Rahul Parsa, Jackie Rees-Ulmer, and Chengxin Cao (2022), "Pricing Cybersecurity Insurance," Journal of Mathematical Finance vol. 12, no. 1.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2021
Zhaoxin Lin, Travis Sapp, Rahul Parsa, Jackie Rees Ulmer and Chengxin Cao
Iowa State University, Iowa State University - Department of Finance, Iowa State University, Iowa State University and Iowa State University
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Loss distribution, cyber breach, cyberinsurance, insurance premium, correlated losses