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"If you multiply financial resources by financial literacy, the product is financial well-being. The high correlation between financial resources and financial literacy means that that financial well-being is more poorly distributed than either of its components."

 

 

 

 
Lewis Mandell
Visiting Professor of Finance and Business Economics

PhD, University of Texas, l970
MA, Northwestern University, l966
BA, City College of New York, l964


Phone:   
 206-842-2610 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-543-7472 University of Washington Business School
Office:
Email:
 111 Lewis Hall
lmandell@u.washington.edu
 Finance Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     

Specialties

    Investments, banking, consumer finance, financial behavior

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 2008
    Dean, School of Management and Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics,
    University at Buffalo

    Marquette University
    Dean, College of Business Administration
    Professor of Finance

    University of Connecticut (1980–1995)
    Associate Dean, School of Business Administration
    Professor of Finance and Political Science

    University of Texas at San Antonio (1977-1980)
    Professor of Finance
    Director, Division of Economics, Finance and Business Law

    Director, Division of Economic Research and Analysis, Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC
    (l976 l977)

    University of Maine (l973 l975)
    Associate Professor of Economics
    Founding Director, Social Science Research Institute

    The University of Michigan l969 l973.
    Study Director
    Director of the Survey of Consumer Finances, Economic Behavior Program, Survey Research
    Center, Institute for Social Research

Selected Publications

  • "The Credit Card Industry - A History," in G. K. Hall (ed.), Twaine Publications, Boston, 1990.

  • "Consumer Perception of Incurred Interest Rates: An Empirical Test of the Efficacy of the Truth-in-Lending Law," Journal of Finance, December, 1971.

  • "A Modal Search Technique for Predictive Nominal Scale Multivariate Analysis," with Robert Messinger, Journal of the American Statistical Association, December, l972.

Working Papers

    "Financial Education in the Workplace -- A Cost-Benefit Analysis"

Current Research

    FinanciallLiteracy of young adults

Selected Consulting Experience

    Aspen Institute - Senior Fellow – current
    World Bank – current
    U.S. Treasury – current
    TIAA-CREF
    JP Morgan – Chase
    American Express

Honors and Awards

    State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching, (2008)
    William E. Odom Visionary Leadership Award, highest national award in financial literacy (2004)

Service

    Founding Editor, Financial Services Review