Lecturer in Finance and Business Economics
International Case Competition Coordinator
PhD, University of Washington (cum laude), 1999
MA, Southern Illinois University (cum laude), 1985
BA, SUNY at Buffalo (cum laude), 1981
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Michael G. Foster School of Business |
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242 Mackenzie Hall
thanks@u.washington.edu
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Finance Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200 |
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Specialties
Microeconomic theory, public finance, health economics
Positions Held
At the University of Washington since 1989
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
- International Case Competition Coordinator 2006-present
- Faculty Director, IKEA International Case Competition, 2007
- Faculty Director Global Business Challenge 2002-2005
- Faculty Advisor D.A. Davidson Student Investment Portfolio 2000-present
- Faculty Advisor Finance Internship Program 2003-2005
- Faculty Advisor Dow Dawgs 2000-present
- UW Extension Distance Lecturer in corporate finance
Research Associate, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Cancer Prevention Research Program (1986-1998)
Health Services Research Analyst, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, WA (1994-1995)
Research assistant, SIU at Carbondale, (1985-1986
Research assistant, SUNY at Buffalo, (1981-1982)
Program Coordinator, International College and Living Center, SUNY at Buffalo, (1980-1981)
Residential Advisor, International Living Center, SUNY at Buffalo, (1978-1980)
Selected Publications
- UW Extension Distance Learning Corporate Finance Course Book (Online) 2001.
- "Essential and Reactive Alcoholism: A Review," with R.D. Walker, M.O. Howard, P.S. Walker, M.D. Lambert, and R. Suchinsky, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 1996, pp. 80-95.
- "An Intertemporal Error-Correction Model of Money Demand for a Semi-Open Economy," with D. Margaritis, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vo. 12, No. 3, 1990, pp. 381-397.
- "Modeling the Demand for Money in Canada: An Application of a Stochastic Dynamic Programming Problem," Applied Modeling and Simulation , Proceeding of the IASTED International Symposium, Santa Barbara, 1989, pp. 39-43.
Current Research
Financial crises and the subprime mortgage crisis
Honors and Awards
Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Finance and Business Economics, Winter Quarter (2008)
Academic Service
Designed selection process, recruited faculty to assist in interviewing and made final decisions on
- team composition for various case competitions
Trained student teams selected to participate in seven external competitions
Morning round judge in the IKEA Case Competition
Current courses:
- Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
- Microeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Theory
- Comparative Economic Systems
- International Finance
- Banking and the Financial System,
- Financial Markets
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Theory and Analysis
- Investments
- Global Environment of Business
- Case Analysis for Competitive Success
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