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Jeff Fleming

Interim Dean
Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Finance

Faculty
McNair Hall 202D
713 348-5928 jfleming@rice.edu
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Finance

Jeff Fleming, Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Finance, currently serves as interim dean of Rice Business. Fleming previously served as director of the Ph.D. program and from 2015 to 2022 was deputy dean of academic affairs for the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. He joined the Jones School faculty in 1993. He taught courses on futures and options, managerial economics and corporate finance. He received the Jones Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000 and 2003. His research interests include option pricing, implied volatility, volatility modeling and the role of information flow in financial markets. He has published research articles in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Financial Econometrics and the Journal of Empirical Finance, among others. Two of his papers were finalists for the Smith-Breeden Prize awarded annually by the Journal of Finance.

Teaching Interests: 

  • Futures and options
  • Economics

Research Interests: 

  • Derivative securities
  • Volatility modeling

Intellectual Contributions

Journal Article
Fleming, J., & Kirby, C. (2013). Component-driven regime-switching volatility. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 11(2), 263-301. doi:10.1093/jjfinec/nbs023
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Fleming, J., Kirby, C., & Ostdiek, B. (2001), The Economic Value of Volatility Timing.The Journal of Finance, 56(1), 329–352. doi:10.1111/0022-1082.00327
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Fleming, J., & Paye, B. S. (2011). High-frequency returns, jumps and the mixture of normals hypothesis. Journal of Econometrics, 160(1), 119-128. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.03.024
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Fleming, J., Kirby, C., & Ostdiek, B. (1998). Information and volatility linkages in the stock, bond, and money markets. Journal of Financial Economics, 49(1), 111-137. doi:10.1016/S0304-405X(98)00019-1
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Fleming, J., Kirby, C., & Ostdiek, B. (2006). Information, trading, and volatility: Evidence from weather-sensitive markets. Journal of Finance, 61(6), 2899-2930. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.2006.01007.x
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Fleming, J. (1998). The quality of market volatility forecasts implied by S&P100 index option prices. Journal of Empirical Finance, 5(4), 317-345. doi:10.1016/S0927-5398(98)00002-4.
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Dumas, B., Fleming, J. and Whaley, R. E. (1998). Implied Volatility Functions: Empirical Tests. The Journal of Finance, 53(6), 2059–2106. doi:10.1111/0022-1082.00083
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Fleming, J., Kirby, C., & Ostdiek, B. (2006). Stochastic volatility, trading volume, and the daily flow of information. Journal of Business, 79(3), 1551-1590. doi:10.1086/500685
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Fleming, J., & Whaley, R. (1994). The Value of Wildcard Options. The Journal of Finance, 49(1), 215-236. doi:10.2307/2329141
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Fleming, J., Kirby, C., & Ostdiek, B. (2003). The economic value of volatility timing using "realized" volatility. Journal of Financial Economics, 67(3), 473-509. doi:10.1016/S0304-405X(02)00259-3

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