Faculty

Education

• PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  International Finance
• MBA, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Finance
• MSc (High Honors), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
• BSc (High Honors), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  Electrical Engineering

Niso Abuaf has been a clinical professor of financial economics for more than 10 years. He has also taught at NYU, University of Chicago, and Bosphorus University. Professor Abuaf is also an investment banker with over 35 years of experience on Wall Street. He currently works as chief economist and financial strategist at Samuel A. Ramirez and Co. Professor Abuaf’s former positions included head of global financial strategy at Credit Suisse, head of International Financial Strategy at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup, and senior international economist and derivatives specialist at JP Morgan Chase. Professor Abuaf was also a founder at the Financial Strategy Group, the analytical think tank of investment banking.

When advising clients and formulating his strategies, Professor Abuaf specializes in synthesizing the global macro outlook with econometric analysis, modern finance theory, behavioral-finance “irrationalities,” quantitative reasoning, and what-if scenario analysis.

Professor Abuaf’s current research interests include global macroeconomics and the economics of emerging markets, corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, investment strategies, and applied econometrics.

Education

• PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Finance
• MBA, Pace University, New York, New York
  Financial Management

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Marcus Braga-Alves is an associate professor of finance at Pace University. He earned his MBA from Pace University and his PhD in finance from the University of Pittsburgh. His research analyzes problems that confront market participants and the academic community in the areas of investment management, corporate finance, and international finance. He is especially interested in the study of the development of capital markets in emerging countries. His work was published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of International Money and Finance, among other journals. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals. He has also served on the program committees of the annual meetings of the Financial Management Association and the Eastern Finance Association.

Before moving to the US, Professor Braga-Alves worked for five years as a consultant in the spot and derivatives markets for agricultural commodities in Brazil. His prime responsibility during that time was to promote the use of commodity derivatives for price risk management by local farmers, who faced new challenges resulting from increasing deregulation and globalization.

Education

• PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  Finance

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Professor Burcin Col’s research interests lie in the general area of international corporate finance spanning topics such as corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, political risk, tax avoidance, and corporate social responsibility. She has published on these topics in academic journals such as Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Business Ethics. Her papers have been featured in prestigious conferences such as American Finance Association (AFA) meetings, National Tax Association (NTA) meetings, and Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC). Her research was awarded grants by the Canadian Foundation for Governance Research and by the NSE-IGIDR Corporate Governance Research Initiative and received a best paper award in Corporate Finance & Financial Institutions by the Financial Management Association (FMA).

Her teaching interests are in corporate finance and international finance. She has received Excellence in Teaching Awards from Pace University and McGill University.

Education

• PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  Economics
• MS, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  Economics
• BA, Queens College, CUNY, New York, New York
  Economics

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Professor Ron Filante’s work with students at Pace University includes working as a coordinator and working on the Pace University Student Managed Portfolio: a $400,000 equity fund where students in NYC and PLV Finance 357 classes evaluate and trade the portfolio’s positions. In addition, Professor Filante is a member of the board of directors at Abbott House, a 55 year old social services organization based in Irvington New York. Professor Filante has published in journals including Investment Management and Financial Innovations.

Education

• PhD, Columbia University, New York, New York
  Finance

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Professor Natalia Gershun is the chair of the undergraduate program in finance. She joined Lubin School of Business in 2002. Her research interests focus on financial asset pricing in general equilibrium and real business cycles. She has published her work in journals including the Journal of Economic Theory, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Review of Financial Economics. Professor Gershun’s work on the effects of executive compensation was cited in the Financial Times, Business Week, Bloomberg, and Vox.

Professor Gershun has presented her research at the European Finance Association, Midwest Finance Association, Eastern Finance Associations, Asian Finance Association, European Financial Management Association, and other conferences.

Professor Gershun teaches Investment Analysis; Portfolio Analysis and Management; Risk Management in Capital Markets; Strategies in Investments, Options and Futures; and Principles of Investments courses.

Education

• PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  Economics

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Elena Goldman is a professor of finance and economics at the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Her research and teaching are in the fields of financial econometrics, bayesian econometrics, risk management, and international finance. She was undergraduate finance program chair between 2012 and 2015. Professor Goldman was a fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016. She currently serves on the education committee at the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association.

Education

• PhD, York University, Toronto, Ontario
  Finance
• MBA, York University, Toronto, Ontario
  Finance
• BA, York University, Toronto, Ontario
  Psychology

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Aron Gottesman is professor of finance and the chair of the Department of Finance and Economics at the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. He has published more than 30 academic articles and books, including publications in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, and the Journal of Financial Markets, among others. His research has also been cited in newspapers and popular magazines.

In 2017, Professor Gottesman authored a book titled Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets (Wiley Finance), coauthored with the DTCC’s Michael Leibrock. In 2016, Professor Gottesman authored a book titled Derivatives Essentials: An Introduction to Forwards, Futures, Options and Swaps (Wiley Finance), based on the popular course that he teaches at Pace University.

Professor Gottesman received Pace University’s Keenan Award for Teaching Excellence in 2017. He teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses on financial markets, derivative securities, and asset management. His approach to teaching is to show students that while quantitative skills are important, success in finance is fundamentally driven by one’s ability to comprehend, reason, and communicate. He strives to give each student a sense of “ownership” of every topic that he teaches, as well as the tools that they require to succeed during their professional careers.

Education

• PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
  Finance

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Iuliana Ismailescu, PhD, is an associate professor of finance and co-chair of the Middle States Self Study Executive Committee. Her research interests include emerging debt and equity markets, international finance, and credit risk. Her research was published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Finance, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and Journal of Investment Management, among others. She co-authored a mathematics book in Romanian and contributed several book chapters to Interest Rate Risk Modeling and Dynamic Term Structure Modeling. Ismailescu received the FMA 2007 Best Dissertation Proposal Award in International Finance for her PhD thesis “Three Essays on Emerging Capital Markets.” Professor Ismailescu frequently presents her research at domestic and international conferences, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for top tier finance journals.

Professor Ismailescu currently teaches courses in financial management, international finance, and investment analysis at undergraduate and graduate levels. She also runs a seminar in capital markets in the doctoral program.

Education

• PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  Finance

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Padma Kadiyala’s primary area of research interest is U.S. capital markets, both equity and debt. On the equity side, her research encompasses investor reaction to information, IPOs, mutual funds, and ETFs. On the debt side, her work has examined the pricing of corporate bonds, and fundamental information that can be extracted from bond prices. One of her recent research areas has been trading and market microstructure. Here, she examined trading strategies in the post-Reg H era, of informed investors around earnings announcements.

Professor Kadiyala’s work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Business, and Financial Management. She has consulted for quantitative equity fund managers, helping to formulate and track investment strategies.

On the corporate bond side, she maintains a blog on emerging market USD corporate bond issuance.

Education

• PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Finance and Economics
• MA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Finance and Economics
• BA, State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York
  
  Economics

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Eddie Mantell joined the Lubin faculty in 1979. Since then he has been active in graduate teaching and in financial and economic research. In most of his courses, Professor Mantell teaches MBA candidates at the New York City campus in the areas of advanced corporate finance and managerial economics. He also occasionally teaches BA/MBA students on the Pleasantville campus. Professor Mantell has also served on dissertation-reading committees for doctoral candidates in finance and economics. In addition to teaching, Mantell acts as a mentor to students, assisting them with everything from job prospects to letters of recommendation.

Much of Professor Mantell’s published research is focused on the application of stochastic processes to corporate finance. In his papers he creates mathematical models and uses them to explain and explore economic and financial issues. He has been continually engaged with professional associations and their activities. He served as a journal reviewer for manuscripts submitted to the Cogent Journal of Economics and Finance. In the past he also acted as a reviewer for manuscripts submitted to the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting as well as the International Research Journal of Applied Finance.

Mantell has presented his research findings at many professional meetings including the annual meetings of the National Association of Business Economists and the International Atlantic Economic Association. In 2014, he was presented with the Best Article award by the flagship journal of the International Atlantic Economic Association for his article: “Rational Reserve Pricing in Sequential Auctions.”

Education

• PhD, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
  Economics
• BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Economics

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Matthew R. Morey, PhD is a full professor of finance and NYSE Research Scholar at Pace University. His research is in mutual funds, behavioral finance, and emerging markets. He has been a professor at Pace since 2000. Before coming to Pace Morey taught at the University of California, Irvine, Fordham University, and Smith College (all in economics). Morey was a Fulbright Scholar to Bangladesh in 1993-1994 and worked for the U.S. State Department in Kuwait in 1989. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Omega, and the Journal of Financial Research (among many others) and has been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNBC, and many other outlets. He has consulted with TIAA-CREF and AllianceBernstein. Morey primarily teaches Introduction to Finance and Behavioral Finance and Economics.

Education

• PhD, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
  Finance
• MS, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
  Finance
• BBA, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
  Management

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Jouahn Nam, PhD, is an associate professor of finance at the Lubin School of Business. His research interests are corporate finance, financial markets, risk management, and quantitative investment analysis. His work has been published in more than 21 articles in leading journals, including Journal of Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and Journal of Risk and Insurance. Professor Nam has taught courses in introductory corporate finance, advanced corporate finance, real estate in finance, and data analysis in finance at both the undergraduate level and the master level. He teaches Doctoral corporate finance theory at Lubin, investment and portfolio management, mergers and acquisition, and real estate in finance in the Masters in Finance for Professionals (MFP).

Professor Nam was a recipient of The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Scholar in 2003 for a period of two years to conduct research on issues important to the exchange. At a time when executive pay packages seemed to be going through the roof, Professor Nam conducted research in the area of corporate governance and executive compensation—specifically, what are the best compensation structures to provide the most incentives to managers to maximize stock value rather than maximize their own wealth. Professor Nam has been a member of Eastern Finance Association, Financial Management Association, and Southern Finance Association.

Education

• PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Finance
• MBA, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Economics & Management Science
• MBA, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
  Management Science

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Professor PV Viswanath is graduate program chair in the Department of Finance and Economics. His research spans the more traditional areas of corporate finance, investments, insurance, and law and economics, but also the treatment of economic issues in world religions, primarily Judaism and Buddhism; most recently, he has been interested in microfinance and financial market development in emerging economies.

His research has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Financial Management. His most recent work has appeared in the following journals: International Journal of Financial Studies, Post-Communist Economies, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Business Ethics, ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives, and the International Journal of Financial Studies.

He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Ethics and Law Journal and is a referee for several journals, including Economic Modelling and the International Journal of Financial Research.

He reads and speaks French, Spanish, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu and Yiddish fluently and has varying degrees of fluency in German, Italian, Hebrew, Marathi, Malayalam and Bengali. He has also studied Arabic, Ancient Greek, Czech, Dutch, Armenian, Aramaic, Syriac, Swahili, Irish/Gaelic, Welsh, Sanskrit and Mandarin Chinese. He uses several of these languages, such as Hebrew, Aramaic, Swahili, Malayalam, Mandarin Chinese and Sanskrit in his research.

He teaches courses in a variety of areas including corporate finance, microfinance, film finance and the Chinese financial system.

Education

• PhD, New York University, New York City, New York
  Finance

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Berry Wilson is currently an associate professor of finance at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University. Before joining Pace University, Professor Wilson held teaching positions at New York University, the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University. Wilson also served as a financial economist at the Federal Communications Commission, and was previously employed as a credit analyst at Citibank. In addition, Professor Wilson also served as a World Bank consultant between 1995-2000.

Professor Wilson’s research interests include financial market stability and financial market crises, with articles and papers published in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy. He has also published in the area of financial market performance in Review of Finance Economics, and the Journal of Futures Market.

Another area of Professor Wilson’s research interest is with the reliability of statistical software, publishing journals including Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Professor Wilson has also presented his research work at both domestic and international conferences.

Education

• PhD, Fordham University, New York
  Economics
• MA, Fordham University, New York
  Economics
• BA, SUNY at Buffalo, New York
  Economics and Political Science

Academic and Professional Engagement Activities
Professor Kevin J. Wynne is the undergraduate finance chairperson in Pleasantville and the academic director of the Masters in Finance for Professionals (MFP) and the Fast Track MBA at the New York City campus. He joined the Lubin School of Business in 1989. He has served on four doctoral committees over the past five years at Pace University. Professor Wynne’s teaching interests include corporate finance, international finance, and investments. He has taught the Corporate Finance course at the undergraduate level and Corporate Finance and Statistics and International Finance at the graduate level.

Professor Wynne’s research interests include risk management, investments, and higher education. He recently co-authored 2 empirical papers on the Student Managed Investment Portfolio (SMIP) at Pace University. Professor Wynn has presented papers at the Global Business Research Symposium in Cork, Ireland (where he was also a reviewer). He has published in several journals, including Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Journal of Executive Education, and Applied Research in Higher Education.