Areas of Interest:

• Dynamics and Efficiency of Financial and Capital Markets
• Monetary Theory and Policy
• International Finance
• Economics of Government Budget Deficits
• Applied Macroeconomics
• Business Cycles and Inflation Forecasting

Education:

• Ph.D., Indiana University (Bloomington), 1982
• M.A., Indiana University (Bloomington), 1976

Experience:

• Chase Bank Endowed Professor of Finance & Professor of Economics, Louisiana Tech University (1995- 2017; retired in June 2017).
• Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Louisiana Tech University (1993-1995).
• Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Louisiana Tech University (1987-1993).
• Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans (1985-1987).
• Visiting Professor of Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance, American University of Sharjah, UAE (2004-2005).
• Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, UAE University, UAE (1993-1994).

Latest Publications:

• “Investor Sentiment and Aggregate Stock Returns: The Role of Investor Attention,” (co-authored), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Volume 53, August 2019, pp. 397-428.
• “The Random Walk Hypothesis Revisited: New Evidence on Multiple Structural Breaks in Emerging Markets,” (co-authored), Macroeconomics and Finance of Emerging Markets Economies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 88-106.
• “Long Memory or Structural Breaks: Some Evidence for African Stock Markets,” (co-authored), Review of Financial Economics, Volume 34, 2017, pp. 61-73.