Jennifer Blouin

Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Accounting, University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Blouin is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Blouin is an expert on the role of taxation in firm decision making. Her research examines the effect of taxes on asset pricing, capital structure, corporate payout behavior, multinational firm behavior, and mergers and acquisitions. She has also examined the effects of investor tax-sensitivity on portfolio rebalancing, price pressure, and fund performance. Professor Blouin has presented her work at dozens of universities and conferences. Her perspectives have been cited frequently in the press, including in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times. Professor Blouin’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals that include Journal of Accounting and Economics and National Tax Journal; and she has served on the editorial boards for several journals, including The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. She is currently an editor for the Review of Accounting Studies and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting Research. Professor Blouin’s teaching has been recognized with the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award, among others. Prior to joining academia, she was a tax manager with Arthur Andersen.