Brief Finance Faculty Bio's

Abdullah Mamun (Associate Professor) received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from University of New Orleans and holds a MA in Economics from University of Western Ontario. He teaches Corporate Finance (graduate), Investments (undergraduate) and Financial Institutions (undergraduate). His research interests include the relationship between financial markets and the economy, financial regulation, empirical asset pricing and portfolio management. His work on the impact of Financial Services Modernization Act (1999) and the relationship between inflation volatility and stock return has been published in academic journals. His current work includes empirical asset pricing, portfolio management and market anomaly research. Prior to joining the U of S, he was a faculty member at Massey University at New Zealand. Further details on Dr. Mamun’s work can be found on his home page at http://www.commerce.usask.ca/faculty/mamun/personal/home_page.htm

Dr. Dev Mishra (Associate Professor) received his MBA (Marketing) degree at Tribhuvan University - Kathmandu in 1992, his MBA (Finance) degree at Indiana University - Bloomington in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in Finance at the University of Connecticut in 2001. Dr. Mishra teaches International Finance and Corporate Finance. Dr. Mishra's research interests include international corporate finance, emerging markets finance, cost of capital, corporate risk management, and corporate diversification. His research in cost of capital has been published in both academic and practitioner journals. Currently, he is researching in the topics like foreign exchange exposure and corporate derivatives use, implied cost of capital, corporate international diversification and cost of debt, and privatization and cost of capital. Prior to joining the University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Mishra was a faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Tribhuvan University - Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Marie Racine (Associate Professor and Director of the M.Sc. in Finance program) received her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego under Nobel Prize winning Professor Robert F. Engle. Dr. Racine's research interests include financial econometrics, asset pricing, personal finance and investing. Her research in these areas has been published in academic as well as professional journals.

Dr. Zhao Sun (Associate Professor) received his B.A. (1992) in International Economics from Nankai University in China, M.S. (1994) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his Ph.D. degree in Finance at the University of Toronto in 2004. Dr. Sun's research interests include asset pricing, fixed income securities and credit risk.

Dr. George Tannous (Professor and Head) received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Rhode Island in 1988, his M.B.A. (finance) from Michigan State University in 1984, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Toledo in 1981, and his B.S. in Mathematics Education from the Lebanese University in 1978. His teaching interests include personal financial planning, corporate finance, the selection and management of investments, and derivative securities. He developed courses and wrote educational material for the Institute of Canadian Bankers (personal financial planning) and for Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (corporate finance). Dr. Tannous' published research includes papers on export financing, the valuation of real options, capital budgeting, and the use of futures and options to hedge interest rate and currency risk. His research under review or in progress includes topics such as the relationship between executive compensation and stakeholders' value, the impact of takeovers on the turnover of top managers, the market microstructure of inter-listed securities, insider trading, short sales activities, the decay of option time value, interest rate caps, floors, and collars, and the preferable organizational structure for risk management.

Dr. Craig Wilson (Associate Professor) received his B.Sc. in Mathematics Specialization and B.Comm. in Finance and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Alberta. His teaching interests include corporate finance, derivative securities, risk management, and finance theory. Dr. Wilson's research interests include financial modeling, asset pricing, derivatives, fixed income securities, investments and corporate finance.

Dr. Fan Yang (Associate Professor) received her B.A. (1992) from the Northwest University in China, and her Ph.D. degree in Finance (2005) at the University of Alberta. Dr. Yang's research interests include financial markets and corporate finance.

Zhenyu Wu (Associate Professor) received his M.A. in Economics, MBA in Finance, and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Calgary. His teaching interests include corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance. His research interests include corporate governance, agency theory, entrepreneurial finance, asset pricing, and portfolio management. Dr. Wu's research articles have been published at various academic journals.