<p>strong>Dr. Kahle strong>is the Thomas C. Moses Professor in Finance at the University of Arizona. She received her MBA in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Finance in 1996 from the Ohio State University. In 2001, Dr. Kahle spent a year as a visiting economist for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was involved in rule changes related to insider transactions and 8-K disclosures that eventually became part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. She has also taught at the University of Georgia and the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Kahle graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio with a major in chemistry. While at Kenyon, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the American Chemical Society Award for excellence in the field of chemistry. After graduating from Kenyon, she spent five years as an assistant editor for Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus, Ohio. <p>Her areas of expertise include corporate finance, capital structure, equity issues and repurchases, and insider trading. Her scholarly work in leading journals such as, em>Journal of Finance< em>Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and em>Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis< continues to advance knowledge in these arenas, examining a broad range of topics, including the tax benefits of employee stock options, executive loans for stock purchase and option exercise, the effect of stock options on share repurchases, and corporate cash holdings before and during the financial crisis. Her work has received citations in various media outlets including em>Business Week, em>The New York Times< and the em>Wall Street Journal< and in 2001 she was the recipient of the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarshiin Financial Research.