Recent Presentations
NOTE: Presentations published in the conference proceedings are listed as Publications.
"Economic Dynamism Pervading The Transition of East African Community Customs Union to Common Market," with Mulugetta, Y. and Tessema, A., Association for Global Business, November 11 to 18, 2011, Newwport Beach, California.
"Risk and Income Effects on Closed-End Funds Using Derived CAPM Valuation Model, " with Cheng, J., Academy of Business Research, November 14 to 16, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Portfolio Performance: A Scenario Analysis of Portfolio Optimization and Alpha Investigation," With Hart, R., Academy of Business Research, September 12 to 15, 2011, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
"Estimated Implied Volatility of Currency With Binomial Option Pricing Model," with Chen, J., Academy of Finance Conference, March 23 to 25, 2011, Chicago, Illinois.
"Implications of Government Actions On Exchnge Rate Fluctuations," with Mulugetta, Y. and Tessema, A.,The International Trade and Finance Associations, May 23-26, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada.
"A CAPM Valuation Model for Closed End Funds," with Cheng, J., Association for Global Business, November 11 to 13, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana.
" Observations and Discussion Points On Walden" to the First Year Reading Initiative Fall 2010, August 24, 2010, Ithaca College, Ithaca.
"Volatility of Exchange Rates in Period of Financial Upheaval: Do the Measures Taken to Subdue the Financial Crisis Influence the Volatility of Exchange Rates?, " with Mulugetta, Y. and Tessema, A., Association For Global Business Annual Meeting, Nov. 12 - 15, 2009, Orlando, Florida.
“Valuation Considerations on Globally Transacted Exchange Traded Funds,” with Mulugetta, Y. and Nyakangoma, I., Association for Global Business, Nov. 20 -22, 2008, Newport Beach, California.
“Price Earnings Growth Multiple as an Indicator of iShares of Single Country Performance,” with Mulugetta, Y., International Trade and Finance Association’s eighteenth International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 21 – 24, 2008.
“Can Japan Sustain Its Recent Economic Growth?” American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Feb. 22-25, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Factors to Gauge to Discover the Directional Move of Currency Prices Using Time Series and Cross-Sectional Analysis," with Mulugetta Y., and Zaman R., Association for Global Business, November 16-18, 2006, Newport Beach, California.
"Change in the Forward Exchange: A Better Tool to Hedge Risk Exposure," with Mulugetta, Y. and Gosh, D., Global Finance Conference, Dublin, Ireland (June 2005).
"Are Discounts for Closed-End Funds Big Enough?" with Cheng, J., Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu (May 2005).
"Stock Market Reaction to News and Subsequent Corrections: Examining Downward Ranking Changes Versus Upward Ranking Changes," with Mulugetta, Y., Association for Global Business, Cancun, Mexico, November 2004.
"Building Empirical Models for Exchange Rates Forecasting Under the Managed Exchange Rate System," with Mulugetta, Y. and Tessema, A. The Inaugural International Conference on Business, Banking & Fiannce in Port Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 2004.
"Divergent Responses of Market Price and Net Asset Value in Emerging Markets to Economic Turmoil of Asia," with Mulugetta, Y., Association for Global Business, Atlanta, GA (November 2003).
"Exploring Forecasting Models of Currency Exchange Rates," with Mulugetta, Y., Association for Global Business, Las Vegas, November 21-24 (2002).
"Controversies in Structural Models of Exchange Rates Determination," with Mulugetta, Y., Book of Abstracts, 2nd International Conference of Banking and Finance (ICBF), Crete, Greece, August 9-11 (2002).
"Transparency of Risk Management in Light of FASB 133 Requirements," with Hadjinikolov, H., Book of Abstracts, 2nd International Conference of Banking and Finance (ICBF), Crete, Greece, August 9-11 (2002).
"Could an Investor Beat the Asian Financial Crisis?" with Ghosh, D., Global Finance Conference, Los Angeles, April 5-7 (2001).
"Estimating the Theoretical Discount of World Equity Closed-End Funds," co-authored by J. Cheng, Association for Global Business, Cancun, Mexico, November 15-17, 2001.
"Could an Investor Beat the Asian Financial Crisis?" co-authored with D. Ghosh, presented at the Global Finance Conference, Los Angeles, April 5-7, 2001.
"Comparative Performance of World Equities Benchmark Shares and Single Country Closed-End Funds," with Rojas, S. & Costa, J., The Journal of Current Research in Global Business, 2(2):82-88, Fall (2000).
"Is Rating of Ranking Agencies Proactive or Reactive to Earning Announcements?" The International Conference on Banking and Finance: Issues and Strategies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 18-20 (2000).
"The Influence of Standard & Poor's Ranking Changes on Stock Price Performance," in Books of Abstracts of 1st International Conference on Banking and Finance: Issues and Strategies, pp. 62-64, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2000).
"Relevance of Currency Exposure in the Valuation of Single Country Closed-End Funds," in Books of Abstracts of 1st International Conference on Banking and Finance: Issues and Strategies, pp. 60-62, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2000).