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Cara Marshall, Lecturer
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Schools Attended:
Ph.D. Financial Economics
Dissertation Successfully Defended, September 2008. Fordham University.

Masters of Business Administration in Quantitative Analysis/CIS, December 2002
St. Johns University.

Bachelor of Science in Marketing, Computer Information Science Minor, May 1999
State University of New York College at Oswego.

Research Interests: Derivatives, Financial Engineering, Behavioral and Experimental Methods in Finance, International Economics  

Publications
 

Books Written:

 

Editor (with Tanya Beder) of Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. Publication is planned for winter 2010.

Book Chapters:

 

“A Profile of Financial Engineering Curricula”, a contribution to Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. Publication is planned for winter 2010. Editors: Cara M. Marshall and Tanya Beder.

“Careers in Financial Engineering”, a contribution to Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. Publication is planned for winter 2010. Editors: Cara M. Marshall and Tanya Beder.

“Monte Carlo Simulation in the Pricing of Derivatives”, a contribution to Financial Derivatives: Pricing and Risk Management. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Editors: Robert W. Kolb and James A. Overdahl.

“The Use of Derivatives in Financial Engineering: Hedge Fund Applications”, a contribution (with John F. Marshall) to Financial Derivatives: Pricing and Risk Management. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Editors: Robert W. Kolb and James A. Overdahl.

Journal Articles:

 

Marshall, C.M. (2009). Dispersion trading: Empirical evidence from U.S. options markets, Global Finance Journal, 20(3), 289-301.

"Replication of Vinod & Morey’s (2002) JOI Article and Porting to Excel" Indian Journal of Economics & Business Volume 4 no: 2 (December 2005). The original work was titled, "Estimation Risk in Morningstar Fund Ratings," H.D. Vinod and Mathew R. Morey, Journal of Investing Vol. 11 (4), 2002, 67-75.

Submitted Works:

 

“Volatility Trading: Hedge Funds and the Search for Alpha” presented at 34th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston (March, 2008).

Work in Progress:

 

"Isolating the Systematic and Unsystematic Components of a Single Stock’s (or Portfolio’s) Standard Deviation" working paper.

“Volatility-Based Pairs Trading: Empirical evidence from U.S. options markets” working paper.

Courses I Teach/Have Taught:

Course Website Course Description: CSCI018

Course Website Course Description: ECON715

Course Website Course Description: BUS241

Course Website Course Description: RM704

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