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Biography: Dr. Agarwal’s primary areas of interest include investments and asset pricing. His current research focuses on various issues related to alternative investments including characterization of risks, performance evaluation, determinants of money flows, impact of managerial incentives on performance, and managerial risk-taking behavior in the hedge fund industry. His research has been published both in academic and practitioner journals including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and
Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Alternative Investments, Foundations and Trends in Finance , and Journal of Asset Management. His research has been cited and discussed in the financial press and magazines including Euromoney , Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Rasha Ashraf, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: 404.413.7348
Location: 1238 RCB
E-mail: rashraf@gsu.edu
Web Page:
Resume: rashraf.pdf Biography: Rasha’s primary research areas include corporate governance, market for corporate control, institutional monitoring, executive compensation, and behavioral finance. Rasha obtained her Ph.D from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. Rasha is a member of the American Finance Association.
Genna Brown, Visiting Instructor of Finance
Phone: 404.413.7330
Location: 1211 RCB
E-mail: gbrown@gsu.edu
Resume: gbrown.pdf
 Mark A. Chen, Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: 404.413.7339
Location: 1230 RCB
E-mail: machen@gsu.edu
Web Page:
Resume: mchen.pdf Biography: Dr. Chen obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Robinson College of Business, he was a member of the business school faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, and the behavior and performance of sell-side analysts. His work as appeared in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the
Journal of Business, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Economic Theory.
 Peter
C. Eisemann,
H. Talmage Dobbs, Jr. Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Finance
PhD., University of Michigan
Phone: 404.413.7329
Location: 1210 RCB
E-mail: peisemann@gsu.edu
Resume: peisemann.pdf
Biography: Dr. Eisemann’s principle interests are financial
management of financial institutions, commercial lending, business valuation,
business damages, personal injury and wrongful death damages. He has been
a consultant for many law firms and banks. His published research includes
work on small-business finance, loan analysis and banking industry financial
management.
 Richard
J. Fendler, Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Alabama
Phone: 404.413.7325
Location: 1206 RCB
E-mail: rfendler@gsu.edu
Resume: rfendler.pdf
Biography: Dr. Fendler’s research interests include security
price volatility and return distributions, cost of capital estimation,
managerial compensation, and financial statement analysis. Fendler coordinates
undergraduate and MBA core courses in finance and CMBA finance/macro-economics
core courses. He is chairman of the MBA Faculty Group Finance sub-committee,
and a member of the Masters Faculty Group, the Integrated MBA Program
committee, and the Concentrated MBA Steering Group. Dr. Fendler is involved
in the community as a business advisor to the Entrepreneurial Club –
Atlanta New Century School, and as a volunteer financial advisor to the
Charter School Partners, a contract operator of charter schools.
 Gerald
D. Gay, Chairman and Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Florida
Phone: 404.413.7321
Location: 1203 RCB
E-mail: ggay@gsu.edu
Web
Page: www.gsu.edu/~fncgdg/
Resume: ggay.pdf
Biography: Dr. Gay’s expertise is in the areas of investments and derivative markets. His research and professional interests center on the valuation and use of derivative instruments and the regulation of derivative markets. Dr. Gay has published numerous articles in journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Futures Market, Journal of Business and Journal of Finance. Dr. Gay has served as the chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Jonathan M. Godbey, Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Phone: 404.413.7328
Location: 1209 RCB
E-mail:
jgodbey@gsu.edu
Resume:
Biography:
Jason T. Greene, Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Indiana University
Phone: 404.413.7310
Location: 1221 RCB
E-mail:
jgreene7@gsu.edu
Web Page: www.gsu.edu/~fncjtg/
Biography:
Dr. Greene's research and teaching interests are in capital markets,
market microstructure, mutual funds and asset pricing. Dr. Greene
has published articles in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial
Studies, Financial Management, and Journal of Financial Intermediation.
 Lixin Huang, Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Pennsylania
Phone: 404.413.7346
Location: 1235 RCB
E-mail: fnclhh@langate.gsu.edu
Web Page:
Resume: lhuang.pdf
Biography: Dr. Huang obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Before joining the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in August, 2007, he was on the faculty at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include banking and financial institutions, corporate finance, and asset pricing. His papers have been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, and International Economic Review.
 Jayant
R. Kale,
H. Talmage Dobbs, Jr. Chair of Finance and Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Phone: 404.413.7345
Location: 1234 RCB
E-mail: jkale@gsu.edu
Resume:
jkale.pdf
Web
Page: www.gsu.edu/~fncjrk/
Biography: Dr. Kale’s primary interest is corporate
finance. His research areas include capital structure, investment banking,
corporate control and institutional investment behavior. Dr. Kale has
published numerous articles in journals, including Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Finance and RAND Journal of Economics. His professional
affiliations include American Finance Association and Financial Management
Association. Kale has recently served as a Visiting Professor at Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore.
 Omesh
Kini, Professor of Global Financial Markets and Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Purdue University
Phone: 404.413.7343
Location: 1231 RCB
E-mail: okini@gsu.edu
Resume: okini.pdf
Biography: Dr. Kini has been with the Robinson College of Business
at Georgia State University since August, 1998. Previously, he was on
the faculty at the Goizueta Business School (Emory University), the Smeal
College of Business Administration (The Pennsylvania State University),
and the Krannert Graduate School of Management (Purdue University). He
has received outstanding teaching awards at all these institutions. He
was listed as the most popular professor at the Goizueta Business School
in the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools (Sixth Edition).
His research interests lie in the areas of initial public offerings and
seasoned issues of equity, corporate takeovers, corporate governance,
and capital market efficiency. His papers have been published in the Journal
of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance,
Financial Management, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review,
Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting,
and Journal of Applied Business Research.
 Reza S. Mahani,
Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Phone: 404.413.7347
Location: 1237 RCB
E-mail: mahani@gsu.edu
Resume:
rmahani.pdf
Biography:
Dr. Mahani's research interests are in the areas of asset pricing,
market microstructure and behavioral finance. Dr. Mahani is a
member of the Econometric Society and the American Financial Association.
 Alfred
Mettler, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Phone: 404.413.7327
Location: 1208 RCB
E-mail: mettler@gsu.edu
Resume:
amettler.pdf
Biography:
Dr. Mettler joined GSU in 1998. Previously he has held positions at the Swiss Banking Institute (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Thunderbird (the Garvin School of International Management), and at New York University. His principle interests are in selected areas of International Banking and Finance, Risk Management of Financial Institutions, and Financial Education. He has won several teaching awards, including the faculty recognition award for teaching and the students’ Crystal Apple award for excellence in teaching at
Georgia State University. His research focuses among other things on equity/debt financing of corporations, enterprise risk management applications, and the management of credit risk exposures. Dr. Mettler is active in several Executive Education Programs in Europe and the U.S., and has consulted for numerous organizations, including UBS, Morgan Stanley, Swiss Bank Corp., Nestle, Lucent, and others.
 James
E. Owers,
Professor of Finance
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Phone: 404.413.7320
Location: 1201 RCB
E-mail:
jowers@gsu.edu
Resume:
jowers.pdf
Biography: Dr. Owers' expertise is in the areas of corporation
finance, corporate capital structure, asset selection and management,
and corporate restructuring. He serves on the editorial board of Global
Finance Journal and the advisory board of Northeast Business and Economics
Association. He is widely published including articles in the Journal
of Financial Economics and Global Finance Journal. Dr. Owers has extensive
experience in executive education serving a broad range of corporations
throughout the U.S. and South America. Owers currently serves as the Director
of the Department of Finance's nationally recognized CFO
RoundTable.
 Craig
K. Ruff, Assistant Dean, Executive Education (Non-Degree) and Clinical Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D. Virginia Tech.
Phone: 404.413.7322
Location: 1204 RCB
E-mail:
cruff@gsu.edu
Biography: Dr. Ruff is Assistant Dean for Executive Education and a clinical associate professor of finance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He was formerly a vice president in the Educational Products department at the CFA Institute (formerly, the Association for Investment Management and Research) and associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal. He has also worked in the areas of equity valuation and quantitative portfolio analysis for Atlanta Capital Management, an institutional money management firm. Prior to
originally joining Georgia State in 1991, Dr. Ruff was a Senior Economist at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, where he specialized in interest-rate-risk modeling and mortgage-derivative products.
Dr. Ruff's research and practice interests are in investments, and he has published articles on interest-rate risk and hedging in both academic journals and practitioner publications. He has also co-authored a set of cases on international asset management that now reside in the Darden and INSEAD case collections.
Dr. Ruff has won the college-wide teaching awards at both Georgia State University and Georgia Tech, and he has his Ph.D. in finance from Virginia Tech. He is a CFA charterholder, a trustee for the CFA Society of Atlanta, a member of the Board of Directors for YieldQuest Mutual Funds, and a member of the academic advisory board for Decatur Capital Management.
 Harley
(Chip) E. Ryan, SunTrust Professor of Capital Markets and Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Georgia State University
Phone: 404.413.7337
Location: 1226 RCB
E-mail: cryan@gsu.edu
Web
Page: www2.gsu.edu/~fncher/
Resume:
cryan.pdf
Biography:
Dr. Ryan's research interests include corporate finance, corporate
governance, incentive compensation and contracting, mergers and
acquisitions, investment banking, and insurance. He has published
research articles in journals such as the Journal of Financial
Economics, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial and
Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, the Journal of Corporate
Finance, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance. He has presented
his research findings at numerous meetings and symposia including
the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association,
the Financial Management Association, the National Bureau of Economic
Analysis, and the Office of the Chief Economist at the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
 Milind
M. Shrikhande, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School.
Phone: 404.413.7334
Location: 1223 RCB
E-mail: mshrikhande@gsu.edu
Web
Page: www.gsu.edu/~wwwmms
Resume: mshrikhande.pdf
Biography: Prior to joining Georgia State University, Dr. Milind Shrikhande has worked at Georgia Tech, Unilever, and the World Bank. He was nominated for excellence in teaching at the Institute level at Georgia Tech’s DuPree College of Business, and also won the Best Research Paper Award at the Global Finance Conference. He was awarded the First Harvey Brightman Award for teaching innovation at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business in 2006, and GSU’s Instructional Effectiveness Award in 2007. His research has been published in the Review of
Financial Studies journal. He has also published his research in European Financial Management, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, as well as the Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
 Isabel Tkatch, Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Phone: 404.413.7351
Location: 1241 RCB
E-mail: itkatch@gsu.edu
Web
Page: www2.gsu.edu/~fncitt
Resume: itkatch.pdf
Biography: Dr. Tkatch's primary research interests are in capital markets, market microstructure and financial econometrics. She is a member of the American Finance Association.
 Marian Turac,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Georgia State University
Phone: 404.413.7350
Location: 1240 RCB
Phone: 404.413.7352
Location: 1243 RCB
E-mail: turac@gsu.edu
Resume: mturac.pdf
Biography:
Baozhong Yang, Assistant Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Stanford University
Phone: 404.413.7352
Location: 1243 RCB
E-mail: fncbyy@gsu.edu
Resume:
Biography:
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FINANCE DIRECTORY
Vikas
Agarwal, Associate
Professor of Finance