Nathan Mauck

Ph.D.

Arvin Gottlieb Chair in Business Economics
Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri–Kansas City

My research and teaching span corporate finance, international finance, mergers and acquisitions, sovereign wealth funds, ESG, behavioral finance, and portfolio construction. I am a co-founder of Valu-U, an investor education platform, and serve as a Co-PI on the Critical Materials Crossroads (CMC), an NSF Engines award-winning partnership advancing critical minerals manufacturing in the central Midwest. I am also co-author of two books: All Investing Is Value Investing (2026), with FAST Graphs co-founder Chuck Carnevale, and AI Co-Thinking: A Framework for Working with AI, with Robert Greene, which I teach from in Bloch School executive education. Both were #1 New Releases in their Amazon categories.

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Academic Work

Research

Corporate Finance Sovereign Wealth Funds ESG & CSR Mergers & Acquisitions Behavioral Finance International Finance Volatility Payout Policy Portfolio Construction

Special Issue Guest Editor — Sustainability (MDPI)

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Analyses and Implications · Cogent Economics & Finance, 2025 | Sustainability Special Issue on ESG & Sustainable Finance, 2025–2026 View Special Issue →

Selected Publications (33 peer-reviewed)

1

Incorporating ESG to Create a Low-Volatility S&P 500 Index Fund

with Clark & Krieger · Sustainability, 2026, 18(2)
2

Market Volatility and US-China Trade Policy: Evidence from the First Trump Administration

with Pruitt & Zheng · Int'l Review of Accounting, Banking and Finance, 2025
3

Opportunity Costs and the Value of Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Firm Dividend Policy

with Krieger · Applied Economics Letters, 2024
4

Operating Income Via a Generalized Operating Leverage Model

with Krieger & Lambert · Int'l Journal of Financial Studies, 2024
5

Words Matter: Market Responses to Changes in U.S. and Chinese Trade-Related Internet Search Frequency

with Pruitt & Zhang · Global Finance Journal, 2022
6

The Coming Wave of Small Business Succession and the Role of Stakeholder Synergy Theory

with Lindsey & Olsen · Global Finance Journal, 2021 — Lead Article
7

Are Government Owned Investment Funds Created Equal? Evidence from SWF Real Estate Acquisitions

with Liu & Price · Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2020
8

Governance and International Investment: Evidence from Real Estate Holdings

with Price · Journal of Real Estate Research, 2018
🏆 ERES MSCI Prize — Best Paper in Real Estate Investment
9

Determinants of Cross-Border versus Domestic Real Estate Investment

with Price · Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2017
🏆 ARES Best Paper in Real Estate Portfolio Management
10

Determinants of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Private Equity

with Johan & Knill · Journal of International Business Studies, 2013
11

Bilateral Political Relations and Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment

with Knill & Lee · Journal of Corporate Finance, 2012
12

Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and the Return-to-Risk Relation of Target Firms

with Knill & Lee · Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2012

Full list of 33 peer-reviewed publications available on Google Scholar.

Book Chapters

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Behavioral Aspects of Portfolio Investments (Ch. 21)

Financial Behavior: Players, Services, Products, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2017
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Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and Firm Volatility (Ch. 13)

The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Oxford University Press, 2017

Selected Honors

ERES MSCI Prize — Best Paper in Real Estate Investment (2016) · ARES Best Paper in Real Estate Portfolio Management (2015, 2018, 2019) · UMKC Chancellor's Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015) · Robert L. Virgil, Jr. Excellence in Teaching Award — Full-Time MBA (2017) · Bloch School AI Fellows Grant (2025)

Now Available

Books

All Investing Is Value Investing book cover

All Investing Is Value Investing: A Plain-Spoken Guide to Success With Stocks

Nathan Mauck & Chuck Carnevale · 2026 · Paperback, Hardcover & Kindle

Whether an investor favors growth, income, or value, every stock decision comes back to the same two questions: what are the company’s earnings worth, and what is the price being paid for them? Chuck Carnevale, co-founder of FAST Graphs and known to investors as “Mr. Valuation,” and finance professor Nathan Mauck give self-directed investors a plain-spoken, repeatable valuation process: judge business quality first, value second, and let earnings drive decisions while short-term price swings fade into the background. Illustrated throughout with FAST Graphs, the book draws on Carnevale’s more than five decades in the investment business and the investor-education framework behind Valu-U.

#1 New Release · Valuation · Print & Kindle Top-5 Amazon Best Seller · Valuation

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AI Co-Thinking: A Framework for Working with AI

Nathan Mauck & Robert Greene

Most organizations are implementing AI without understanding what makes it transformative. This book offers a new framework built around nine components of human intelligence — and shows, in real time, what it looks like when AI augments each one. Written for professionals and leaders who want to move beyond the hype and experience genuine AI co-thinking firsthand. The framework is taught directly in Bloch School executive education sessions for working professionals and leaders.

Now Available on Amazon #1 New Release · Business Intelligence Tools & Business Software

“Most AI books teach you which buttons to push. This one teaches you how to think.” — Amazon review

“AI doesn’t replace human judgment, it amplifies whatever thinking you bring to it.” — Amazon review