Faculty/Staff

Delroy Hunter

Delroy Hunter

Professor, Serge Bonanni Professor of International Finance
dhunter2@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3124
Phone: 813-974-6319
Vita

Delroy Hunter is the Serge Bonanni Professor of International Finance in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. He teaches courses in investments, international finance and empirical methods in asset pricing.

His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Corporate Finance, among others. His work has won the Goldman Sachs Quant Award for Research in Investments at the Western Finance Association Conference and he has been a semi-finalist for the "best paper award" at several conferences. He has won multiple awards at the Muma College of Business and has made presentations at various national and international meetings, central bank workshops and university seminars. 

Hunter earned a PhD from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.

Teaching

  • FIN 3604 - International Finance

  • FIN 4303 - Financial Institutions and Markets

  • FIN 7930 - Empirical Methods in Asset Pricing

Research

  • Bergbrant, M., B. Francis, and D. M. Hunter, (2024), “How Does Currency Risk Impact Firms? New Evidence from Bank Loan Contracts,” Journal of Corporate Finance 84, 102542.

  • Anderson, R., M. Bergbrant, D. Hunter, and D. Reeb, (2022), “Are Founding Families Less Willing to Bear Risk? Evidence from the Currency Exposure of Family Firms,” Financial Management 52 (1), 41-66.

  • Francis, B., D. Hunter, and P. Kelly, (2020), “Do Foreign Investors Insulate Firms from Local Shocks? Evidence from the Response of Investable Firms to Monetary Policy,” Journal of Empirical Finance 58, 386-411.

  • Bergbrant, M., D. Hunter, and P. Kelly, (2018), “Rivals’ Competitive Activities, Capital Constraints, and Firm Growth,” Journal of Banking & Finance 97, 87-108.

  • Bergbrant, M. and D. Hunter, (2018), “(How) Do Credit Market Conditions Affect Firms’ Post-hedging Outcomes? Evidence from Bank Lending Standards and Firms’ Currency Exposure,” Journal of Corporate Finance 50, 203-222.

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  • Francis, B., I. Hasan, D. Hunter, and Y. Zhu, (2017), “Do Managerial Risk-Taking Incentives Influence Firms’ Exchange Rate Exposure?” Journal of Corporate Finance 46, 154-169.

  • Francis, B., D. Hunter, D. Robinson, M. Robinson, and X. Yuan, (2017), “Auditor Changes and the Cost of Bank Debt,” The Accounting Review 92 (3), 155-184.

  • Bergbrant, M., D. Bradley, and D. Hunter, (2017), “Does bank loan supply affect the supply of equity capital? Evidence from new share issuance and withdrawal,” Journal of Financial Intermediation 29, 32-45.

Service

  • Service to academia, private sector, government, and institutions

  • Member, Muma College of Business Tenure & Promotion Committee

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Stability; Qtrly Jrnl of Finance & Accounting

  • Ad hoc reviewer for various journals (including Jrnl of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Jrnl of Corporate Finance, Jrnl of Banking and Finance)

  • Ad hoc reviewer for grant-funding institutions (including Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, Fulbright Commission in Egypt)

  • Ad hoc reviewer of tenure & promotion applications and doctoral exams