University of Colorado Denver Business School, offering Bachelor, MBA, MS, and PhD degrees

Interactive teaching and teaching by doing are the primary tenets I would like to adhere to when I teach. Students are more engaged and learn more when they engage in active learning. Also, I would like to help students engage in more critical thinking and to gain a good understanding of difficult material, so they can continue to learn and enjoy learning.

Areas of Expertise

•   Management of Financial Institutions
• Commercial Banks and Savings Institutions
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Small Firm Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Short-term Finance

Co-editor, International Review of Accounting, Banking and Finance, 2009-present

MBA Program Director, 2005-present

Discipline and Program Director, Finance, University of Colorado Denver, 2002-2005

Program Director, Finance, University of Colorado Denver, 2000-2005

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, 1996-present (tenured 1999)

Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Baltimore, 1988-96 (tenured 1992)

Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, 1984

Southern Finance Association and Eastern Finance Association

Member: Midwest Finance Association, American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Association of Financial Professionals, Rocky Mountain Bank Research Group

Editorial Board, Journal of Economic and Finance, 2003-present

Past President of Midwest Finance Association, 2002

President, Midwest Finance Association, 2001

President-Elect, Midwest Finance Association, 2000

Vice-President and Program Chair, Midwest Finance Association, 1999

Track Chair, Financial Institutions, Southern Finance Association 1997; Midwest Finance Association, 1996

Board of Directors, Midwest Finance Association, 1994-1997

Books

Financial Institution Management, 5th edition, Thompsom/Southwestern College Publishing, 2005 (with M. Gardner and D. Mills)

“Deferred Compensation in Public Defined Benefit Plans: Evidence from Colorado Pera” Journal of Pension Economics and Finance(with Michael Mannino), 2009

Articles

“Director Tenureand the Compensation of Bank CEOs" Managerial Finance, 2010 (with John Byrd and Glenn Wolfe

“Regulatory Regime Changes and Acquisition Attributes: The Case of Commercial Bank and Thrift Acquisitions of Thrifts” Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, 2008 (with F. Cebenoyan and A. S. Cebenoyan)

“Another Look a Director Independence,” IRABF, 2009 (with John Byrd and Glenn Wolfe

"Ownership Structure, Operating Inefficiency, and Regulatory Reform: An Analysis of U.S. Thrifts," Research in Banking and Finance, 2004 (with A.S. Cebenoyan and F. Cebenoyan and C.A Register)

"S&L Performance Persistence, Moral Hazard and Market Discipline," Managerial Finance, Special Issue on Banking, 2003 (with A.S. Cebenoyan and C.A. Register)

"The Determinants of Takeovers: Evidence from U.S. Thrifts," Multinational Finance Journal, Special Issue on Banking, forthcoming (with F. Cebenoyan and A. S. Cebenoyan)

"Ownership Structure, Charter Value, and Risk-Taking Behavior for Thrifts," Financial Management, 1999 (with A.S. Cebenoyan and C. A. Register)

"Cost Inefficiency and the Holding of Nontraditional Assets by Solvent Stock Thrifts," Real Estate Economics, 1998 (with A. S. Cebenoyan, C.A. Register, and S.C. Hudgins)

"Firm Efficiency and the Regulatory Closure of S&Ls: An Empirical Investigation," Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993 (with A. S. Cebenoyan and C.A. Register)

"The 1985 Ohio Thrift Crisis, the FSLIC's Solvency, and Rate Contagion for Retail CDs," Journal of Finance, 1992 (with W.B. Lee and G.A. Wolfe)

"Excess Pension Asset Reversions and Corporate Acquisition Activity," Journal of Business Research, 1991 (with D.A. Cather and G.A. Wolfe)

"The Relative Efficiency of Stock vs. Mutual S&Ls: A Stochastic Cost Frontier Approach," Journal of Financial Services Research, 1992 (with A. S. Cebenoyan, C.A. Register, and S. C. Hudgins)

An Analysis of the Underwriter Selection Process for Initial Public Offerings," Journal of Financial Research, 1994 (with G. A. Wolfe and S.P. Ferris)

"Further Evidence on Equity Market Contagion: The FSLIC's Solvency and the Liquidity Crisis of Financial Corporation of America," The Financial Review, 1998 (with W. B. Lee, G.A. Wolfe, and J.A. Verbrugge)

Current Research

"An Analysis of Bank Mergers" 1990-2004 (with Ajeyo Banerjee)

"Regulatory Regimes and Takeovers of U.S. Thrifts" (with Fatma and Sinan Cebonyan)

Selected Consulting Experience

Consulting with Insurance Company in Baltimore on the Analysis of a Thrift Merger, 1994