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About Pauline M. Shum Nolan
Prof. Shum Nolan’s main area of research focuses on the relationship between financial and real decisions. This relationship is an important consideration for firms, as well as for households. At the firm level, she has studied the choice of capital structure and its effects on a firm’s investment, and vice versa. At the household level, she has studied the impact of entrepreneurial and real estate investments on household portfolio choice. In recent years, Prof. Shum Nolan has also been studying the performance and growth of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and their roles in investors’ portfolios, as well as their impact on financial markets. Prof. Shum Nolan’s research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Finance, and Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. She has also published in the areas of pensions, political events and financial markets, and alternative assets, such as art as an investment (focusing on modern art). She was the winner of the CFA Toronto Society-Hillsdale Investment Management Research Award in 2011, and again in 2019.
Honours
2011, 2019 Toronto CFA Society - Hillsdale Research Award
2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2003, 2002, 2001 Merit Awards, Schulich School of Business, York University.
2001 Research Award, Schulich School of Business, York University.
Recent Publications
“Relative Liquidity, Fund Flows and Short-term Demand: Evidence from Exchange-Traded Funds” (with Markus Broman), The Financial Review, vol.53-1, 87–115, 2018.
(On 4 SSRN Top Ten download lists)“Intraday Share Price Volatility and Leveraged ETF Rebalancing” (with Arthur Rodier, Edgar Hayanto, and Walid Hejazi), Review of Finance, vol.20-6, 2379-2409, 2016.
(On 12 SSRN Top Ten download lists with 4,600+ downloads)“The Performance of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs During Volatile Times” (with Jisok Kang), Managerial Finance (Special Issue on ETFs), vol. 39-5, 476-508, 2013.
“The Long and Short of Leveraged ETFs: the Financial Crisis and Performance Attribution", CFA Research Foundation Occasional Papers, 2011.
"All are Not Created Equal: an Exploration of ETF Asset Growth" (with Kenneth Chen), Journal of Index Investing, vol.3-3, 49-61, 2012.
“The Influence of Productivity Growth on Stock Market Performance” (with Laurence Booth, Bin Chang, and Walid Hejazi), Journal of Wealth Management, vol. 14- 1, 78–92 2011.
“How Passive are International ETFs? A Study of Their Intraday Behaviour”, Journal of Index Investing, vol.1-4, pp.74-84, 2010.
Courses Taught
FINE3200 and FINE6200 Investments
Pauline M. Shum Nolan
Professor of Finance
MA & PhD (Toronto)BA Hons (UBC)