Faculty
Paul
K. Asabere, Professor
Office: Alter Hall 421
Voice: 215.204.1678
Email: pasabere@temple.edu |
Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~pasabere/
Biography:
Dr. Paul K. Asabere earned a BS. (First Class Honors) in Urban Planning
from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi,
Ghana in 1974. He received his M.U.P degree in 1977 and Ph.D in Finance
in 1980 (Real Estate) from the University of Illinois, Champaign.
Dr. Asabere has been at Temple University since 1989. Prior to coming to Temple University, Dr. Asabere taught at Bentley College, Massachusetts; St. Mary's University,Nova Scotia; and University of Connecticut,Connecticut. He has published over forty scholarly articles in top-tier academic journals such as: Journal of Regional Science; Land Economics; Urban Economics; Urban Studies; Real Estate Economics; Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics; Journal of Real Estate Research, and The Appraisal Journal. He is on the editorial boards of two major real estate journals: Journal of Real Estate Research, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He is currently working on housing and land policy studies for African countries.
Dr. Asabere has received several research grants (or awards) including grants from the foundation of the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (1990) and U.S.A.I.D Research Grant for study in Ghana (1979/80). Dr. Asabere has participated in scores of academic conferences and seminars. Dr. Asabere was awarded Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in 1999. Recent consulting include: Comptroller of Public Accounts (State of Texas) and The Pine Lands Commission (State of New Jersey). Dr. Asabere was past president of the African Finance and Economics Association (AFEA), a subsidiary of ASSA. In 2007, Dr. Asabere was a discussant in the Workshop on Urbanization and Growth sponsored by the Commission on Growth and Development (organized by the World Bank). The Workshop was chaired by Nobel Price economist Michael Spense. He is currently a member of the Lower Gwynedd Planning Commission. He is the faculty coordinator for the FSBM CIBER's African Initiative Program.
Michael
Boldin, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 437
Voice: 215.204.4896
Email: michael.boldin@temple.edu
Biography:
Michael Boldin received his PhD in economics from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, with fields in Finance and Monetary
Economics. He also holds a BBA in economics from Temple University. Dr. Boldin
has a strong interest in econometric applications in the Finance field.
He has expertise in the construction of macroeconomic and financial databases
and their application to both historical and real time analysis. Dr.
Boldin has held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The
Conference Board, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Most
recently he was Director of Research Services at the Wharton School,
where he directed the team that helped to make Wharton Research Data
Services (WRDS) a popular tool for analyzing financial data among business
school faculty throughout the world. He also has taught at the University
of Pennsylvania, New York University and Rutgers University.
Edward
Boyer, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 432
Voice: 215.204.4896
Email: eboyer@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. Edward Boyer served ten years as an economist in the Bell System
prior to entering the teaching profession. While employed by
Bell Atlantic (Verizon), Dr. Boyer managed a research staff responsible
for demand analysis, econometric modeling, and financial forecasting
and analysis. During this time, Dr. Boyer also served on the
advisory board to the Rutgers University Workshop on Public Utility
Regulation. Dr. Boyer was also employed at the Bell Laboratories
engaged in research directed toward the interaction between competitive
and financial strategies. Since joining Temple in 1993, Dr.
Boyer has taught corporate finance in the Executive MBA, the Full-time
MBA, Professional MBA and undergraduate programs. In 1999, Dr.
Boyer was awarded the “Excellence in Teaching” award by
the Fox MBA Student Association. Dr. Boyer has published in the International
Finance Review and in the Fundamentals of Strategic Management. In
addition, Dr. Boyer published a book, Exceling in Finance,
presenting spreadsheet methods for solving problems in corporate finance.
J.
Jay Choi, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Finance
and International Business
Office: Alter Hall 417
Voice: 215.204.5084
Email: jjchoi@temple.edu | Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~jjchoi/
Biography:
Dr. J. Jay Choi is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Finance and International
Business at Temple University. He teaches international finance, capital
markets, and corporate finance. He is a doctoral advisor in international
business, and a member of Faculty Council of Institute of Global Management
Studies and CIBER. He is a recipient of Musser Award for Excellence
in Leadership and Distinguished Faculty Alumni Research Fellowship,
and an inductee of Research Roundtable. Previously he was on the faculty
of Columbia Business School and an international economist at Chase
Manhattan Bank. He has been a visiting faculty at University of Hawaii,
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), NYU (Stern), International University
of Japan, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. As
an author of over fifty articles and books and over one hundred presentations,
he is an internationally renowned scholar in international financial
management, exchange risk management, and emerging market finance.
He is a Founding Editor of an Elsevier Science book series, International
Finance Review, an editor of Journal of Economics and Business,
and on the editorial boards for a number of journals.
Elyas
Elyasiani, Professor
Office: Alter Hall 413
Voice: 215.204.5881
Email: elyas@temple.edu | Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~elyas/
Biography:
Dr. Elyas Elyasiani joined Temple in 1980. His main area of expertise
is banking and financial institutions. Dr. Elyasiani has done research
in bank and insurance company stock return modeling, risk exposure,
efficiency, international spillover of shocks, and minority and foreign
ownership effects, as well as quantitative finance, debt maturity,
and monetary economics. His publications have appeared in the Journal
of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal
of Financial Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing
and Finance, and Journal of Financial Services Research.
Dr. Elyasiani has taught at Michigan State University, Temple University,
and Bar Ilan University in Israel at the Ph.D., MBA, and undergraduate
levels. He was also a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, Israel. He also serves as an editor of the Journal of Economics
and Business.
Manak
Gupta, Professor
Office: Alter Hall 428
Voice: 215.204.8143
Email: mcgupta@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. Manak Gupta has served on the faculties of Pennsylvania State University,
State University of New York at Buffalo prior joining the Fox School.
He teaches undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses and has served on
the dissertation committees of several students within and outside
the Finance Department. Both his teaching and research is focused primarily
on the topic of corporate finance. Dr. Gupta has published in
top-tier journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Accounting Research.
His research has been translated and republished in several languages.
He has presented papers and chaired sessions in numerous professional
associations such as The American Finance Association, The American
Institute of Decision Sciences, The Operations Research Society of
America, Western Finance Association, Financial Management Association,
and The Econometric Society of America.
Forrest
Huffman, Professor
Office: Alter Hall 426
Voice: 215.204.6675
Email: fhuffman@temple.edu
Biography:
Professor Forrest Huffman is a professor in the Department of Finance
and program director for real estate. His academic research interests
are in corporate real estate usage, real estate investment, real property
taxation and real estate markets. He has published in the major academic
real estate journals including Real Estate Economics, Journal
of Real Estate Finance and Economics and The Journal of Real
Estate Research in addition to many others. His membership affiliations
include AREUEA, ARES, CORENET, IAAO, and LAI. Professor Huffman has
taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in real estate for
over 25 years including courses in real estate fundamentals, finance,
appraisal, investment, property management and real estate markets.
R.
Steven Kamp, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 427
Voice: 215.204.7016
Email: kamp@temple.edu
Biography:
Steve Kamp has over thirty years of success in a broad variety of positions
in finance. Beginning his career on Wall Street, he built customer
relationships, provided investment advisory services to individuals
and institutions, managed underwriting syndicates for Merrill Lynch,
and directed both new business development and training for the investment
banking group at Paine Webber. A passion for education and teaching
eventually led to worldwide consulting and executive education assignments
in finance with emphasis on working capital management, financial analysis,
mergers and acquisitions, and finance for non-financial executives. Steve’s
activities at Temple’s Fox School include teaching a variety
of finance courses to undergraduate and MBA students as well as acting
as faculty advisor to the Financial Management Association student
group.
Howard
Keen, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 429
Voice: 215.204.5990
E-mail: hkeen@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. Howard Keen served as Senior Banking Economist at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia and as Chief Economist for Consolidated Rail Corporation
prior to joining Temple University. During his years at Conrail, Dr.
Keen became a nationally recognized business economist whose work was
cited in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Business
Week and USAToday. He has served as President or Director
of national business economics, forecasting, and economic education
organizations, and has received national recognition for accuracy in
economic forecasting. Dr. Keen has published articles on management
and regulation of financial institutions, analysis of national and
regional business conditions, and techniques and analyses of economic
forecasting.
Kenneth
J. Kopecky, W.D. Fuller Professor of Economics and
Finance, Department Chair
Office: Alter Hall 420
Voice: 215.204.8279
Email: kkopecky@temple.edu |
Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~kkopecky/
Biography:
Dr. Kenneth Kopecky was an assistant professor at Ohio State University
before joining the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. as a senior
economist. While at the Board, Ken worked on the Monetary Control Act
of 1980 and the re-evaluation of the Federal Open Market Committee’s
operating procedures. Dr. Kopecky’s areas of expertise include
monetary economics and financial markets. He has published more than
30 refereed articles in the leading journals of the field including
the Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal
of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal
of International Economics, and Journal of International Money
and Finance. Since coming to Temple in 1988, Ken has taught courses
in both economics and finance, and has served as assistant dean for
graduate programs, chairperson of the department of finance, and executive
editor of the Journal of Economics and Business.
Yan Li
Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall
425
Voice: 215.204.4148
E-mail: liyanlpl@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. Yan Li joined the Fox school of Business as an assistant professor
of finance in 2009. She earned her doctorate degree from Cornell University.
Her research interests include theoretical and empirical asset pricing,
behavioral finance and forecasting. She teaches financial econometrics
at the undergraduate, master and PhD levels.
Yuanzhi Li
Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 426
Voice: 215.204.8108
E-mail: yuanzhi.li@temple.edu
Biography:
Yuanzhi Li is currently an Assistant Professor
of Finance in the Fox School of Business. She graduated from New York
University in 2009 with a PhD in Finance. Her research interests include
empirical corporate finance and empirical asset pricing. She teaches
courses such as Financial Management and Corporate Finance . She is a
member of the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association.
Connie
Mao, Associate Professor
Office: Alter Hall 416
Voice: 215.204.4895
Email: cmao@temple.edu | Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~cmao/
Biography:
Dr. Connie X. Mao is an Associate Professor of Finance at Temple University’s
School of Business and Management. She holds a doctorate in Finance from
The Johnson School of Management at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY),
and a doctorate in Biomedical Science from Cornell University Medical
School (New York, NY). Professor Mao is specialized in studying the effect
of ‘agency’ conflicts on the financing decisions of firms
and analyzing how the resolution of these conflicts influences the efficiency
of security markets. Her research has been published in several national
premier journals including the Journal of Finance and Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Professor Mao is a member
of the American Finance Association and Financial Management Association.
Lalitha
Naveen, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 418
Voice: 215.204.6435
Email: lnaveen@temple.edu | Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~lnaveen/
Biography:
Lalitha Naveen graduated from Arizona State University in 2001. Her field
of expertise is empirical corporate finance. She has worked in the
areas of corporate board structure and executive compensation and has
papers forthcoming in leading finance and accounting journals including
the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. One of her papers
also won the Best Paper Award at the Northern Finance Association Meetings.
She has taught at Purdue University and Georgia State University before
she joined Temple University.
Herbert
E. Phillips, Professor
Office: Alter Hall 431
Voice: 215.204.8141
E-mail: hep@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. Herbert E. Phillips is Professor of Finance at Temple University
and associate editor of The International Review of Financial Analysis.
Prior to his appointment at Temple University, he was a member of the
faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Phillips
earned a BA at Western Washington State University and Ph.D. at the
University of Washington. He was previously a SAGE computer systems
analyst at System Development Corporation. Dr. Phillips is a frequent
contributor to the finance literature, especially in the area of normative
portfolio theory. He is co-author of a textbook on investments, but
many of his writings are extremely critical of current investment theories
and the general equilibrium assumptions upon which they which they
are based. His recent monograph, Forty Years of Normative Portfolio
Theory: Issues, Controversies, and Misconceptions, is a review
and a critique of many now standard investment theories and approaches.
Bruce
B. Rader, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 430
Voice: 215.204.5231
Email: brader@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. Bruce B. Rader (Ph.D. University of Houston 1995), prior to receiving
his Ph.D., has had a variety of experience including project management
for a wide range of civil engineering projects and institutional sales
of fixed income securities. Since joining Temple University’s
Fox School of business in 1996, Dr. Rader has taught courses in derivatives,
corporate finance, investments and valuation on both the undergraduate
and graduate levels. He is a strong advocate of developing critical
thinking skills in students in the application of financial theory.
He is a Chartered Financial Analyst who opinions are quoted by the
local news, and his financial market commentary is and has been broadcasted
by local TV and radio stations.
David
Reeb, Professor
Office: Alter Hall 415
Voice: 215.204.6117
Email: dreeb@temple.edu | Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~dreeb
Biography:
Dr. David Reeb's research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business
Week, The Economist, Financial Times, International
Herald Tribune, Inc., and several other major newspapers.
He has published in some of the most influential journals in Finance,
Accounting, and International Business (Journal of Finance, Journal
of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting
Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal
of Law and Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Financial
Analyst Journal, and others). Dr. Reeb has presented his work on
multinational firms, founding-family ownership, CEO compensation, and
board of director structure at conferences in the US, Europe, Asia, and
the South Pacific. He is also recognized as an outstanding teacher (graduate
and undergraduate) and has conducted several corporate seminars and workshops
for managers and executives.
Oleg Rytchkov
Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 423
Voice: 215.204.4146
E-mail: rytchkov@temple.edu |
Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~rytchkov/
Biography:
Dr. Oleg Rytchkov joined the Fox School of Business in 2009. He earned
a doctorate degree in Finance from the Sloan School of Management,
MIT in 2007 and a doctorate degree in Physics from the Steklov Mathematical
Institute in 2001. Prior to joining the Fox School of Business, Dr. Rytchkov
taught at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Rytchkov's research interests include theoretical and empirical asset
pricing, capital markets, and financial econometrics. His recent research
has been presented at various seminars and conferences including the
Western Finance Association Meetings, European Finance Association Meetings,
and Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings.
Jonathan
A. Scott, Associate Professor
Office: Alter Hall 030C
Voice: 215.204.7605
Fax: Voice: 215.204.1697
Email: jonathan.scott@temple.edu |
Web: www.astro.temple.edu/~scottjon
Biography:
Dr. Jonathan Scott has been at Temple University since 1991, serving
in the Dean’s office before returning to the faculty in 1996.
Prior to joining Temple, he was a senior financial executive at the
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. He has taught courses at the undergraduate,
MBA, and executive MBA (Philadelphia and Tokyo). Dr. Scott was awarded
the 1998 SBM Honors Teacher of the year, 1999 Andrisani-Frank Award
for Excellence in Teaching and the 2000 Musser Award for Leadership
in Teaching. Dr. Scott’s research activities focus on small business
access to credit markets and he is an adjunct scholar with the National
Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation. His publications
have appeared in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal
of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, Financial
Analysts Journal, and Financial Review.
John
Soss, Assistant Professor
Office: Speakman 206C
Phone: 215.204.8453 | Fax: 215.204.1697
Email: jsoss@temple.edu
Biography:
Dr. John Soss has over twenty years of distinguished experience in the
practice and study of international capital markets. He leads
the Fox School’s financial engineering program following a dynamic
investment banking career in New York and London, including senior
positions at S.G. Warburg and the Union Bank of Switzerland. Dr.
Soss managed derivatives franchise business in North America, Europe
and Asia. Additionally, his professional background includes
spearheading specialized structured product and quantitative research
teams. Dr. Soss’ teaching and research interests focus
on global derivatives and international financial markets. He
was the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching, including
the Fox School’s 2007 FMA Teacher of the Year.
Yuzhao
Zhang, Assistant Professor
Office: Alter Hall 414
Phone: 215.204.1917 | Fax: 215.204.1697
Email: yuzhao.zhang@temple.edu
Biography:
Yuzhao Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor
of Finance in the Fox School of Business at the Temple University. He
earned his PhD in finance from the University of California Los Angeles
in 2008, an M.S. of mathematics in finance from the New York University
in 2002. He is a member of the American Finance Association and Western
Finance Association. His research interests include asset pricing, financial
econometrics and derivatives. He teaches courses in investment and portfolio
theory.