Recent Presentations

NOTE: Presentations published in the conference proceedings are listed as Publications.

"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).