Rate My Professor Richard Holowczak

His research interests encompass database management systems, eCommerce, cybersecurity, financial information technologies, Oracle SQL*Plus and Developer Suite, cloud services including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, and IT career paths in financial IT, IT audit, and database administration. Holowczak maintains a data warehouse exceeding 800 TB of equity options data from the OPRA feed and other market data. Key publications include “Decomposing informed trading in equity options” in the Journal of Econometrics (2026), “A thematic analysis of code of ethics disclosures in SEC 8-K Item 5.05” in Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (2024), “Costs associated with exit or disposal activities: A topic modeling investigation of disclosure and market reaction” in Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management (2023), “Stock Market Signals and Consequences of Securities Class Actions Lawsuits: A Microstructure Perspective” in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2021), “Testing market response to auditor change filings: A comparison of machine learning classifiers” in The Journal of Finance and Data Science (2019), and “Price discovery in the U.S. stock and stock options markets” in Review of Derivatives Research (2007). He has authored tutorials such as ORACLE SQL*Plus: An Introduction and Tutorial and Oracle9i Developer Suite tutorial. Holowczak received the Market Technicians Association Best Paper Award in Technical Analysis/Investments for his 2013 paper at the Southwestern Finance Association Conference. He teaches courses in database management systems, eCommerce, cybersecurity, financial information technologies, and delivers workshops on Reuters, FactSet, Bloomberg, and trading simulations for the Masters in Financial Engineering program.