Vanderbilt MS Finance Faculty

Cliff Ball has taught Owen students statistical analysis and the intricacies of equities, bonds, options, and futures contracts since 1990. He recently co-authored the paper, “True Spreads and Equilibrium Price,” which was published in The Journal of Finance. Cliff also serves as referee for numerous research journals and is an associate editor of The Journal of Empirical Finance. Before coming to Owen, he taught at the University of Michigan and London Business School in the 1980s and worked in New York at Shearson Lehman, specializing in options and fixed income research.

Kathryn Barraclough comes to Owen with a PhD from Australian National University. Kathryn has written papers including: "A State-Contingent Claim Approach to Asset Pricing” and “Scaling Regression Equations: Solution or Problem?” Previously she was a manager at KPMG Canberra as a Financial Consultant to the Australian government.

Nicolas Bollen has had more than a dozen research papers accepted for publication since joining Owen's faculty in 2001, including eight in the top finance journals. His current research agenda is focused on hedge funds. Two of his recent papers have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance. Nick’s co-authored paper, “Do Hedge Fund Managers Misreport Returns? Evidence from the Pooled Distribution” was highlighted in the Wall Street Journal and has been downloaded over 1,000 times since it was made publicly available in October 2007.