Vanderbilt MS Finance Faculty

Vanderbilt business professors bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. They draw upon extensive experience as well as insights afforded by their innovative and enlightening research. Our professors are known for easy accessibility and their collaborative approach to teaching, you’ll gain cutting-edge knowledge of how business theory and practice come together.

	Cliff Ball Professor of Finance and Statistics; Faculty Director, PhD Program MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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.

	Kate Barraclough Program Director, MS Finance Program; Senior Lecturer in Finance MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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.

	Jesse A. Blocher Assistant Professor of Finance MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Professor Jesse A. Blocher joined the Finance group at Owen in 2012 after completing his Ph.D. at The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

	Nicolas Bollen E. Bronson Ingram Research Professor of Finance MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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. Video: The Study of Hedge Funds

	Paul Chaney E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Accounting MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Paul Chaney joined the Owen faculty in 1984. His landmark study—which found direct correlation between public perception of an auditor’s reputation and a company's market value—received significant national news coverage in the wake of the Andersen-Enron debacle. Video: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

	Luke Froeb William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Luke Froeb joined the Owen faculty in 1993 as an expert in the economics of competition policy. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where government antitrust agencies widely used his merger models to predict anticompetitive behavior.

	Larry LeBlanc Professor of Operations Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Larry LeBlanc is an author and lecturer to professional organizations, an active consultant to industry, and an award-winning educator in the field of operations management and information technology. His research on spreadsheet risk was the topic of a 2009 Financial Times.com article. He has approximately 65 publications in refereed journals and 60 presentations at universities and organizations overseas. Larry has served as a scientific advisor to France Telecom and received a Japanese Government award for travel to Tokyo to study manufacturing efficiencies of Japanese factories. Video: Advanced Excel for Financial and Operational Analysis

	Craig Lewis, CPA Madison S. Wigginton Chair of Management; SEC Chief Economist and Director of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation Division MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Craig Lewis, the Finance-area coordinator, joined the Owen faculty in 1986 and has been widely published since that time on such financial issues as volatility, debt and capital structure. His interests include equity analyst behavior, the security issue process and corporate financial policy. In 2011, Lewis was appointed Chief Economist and Director of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

	Kimberly Pace Professor for the Practice of Communication MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Kimberly Pace teaches courses in leadership communications and public relations at Owen and uses her formal training in the performing arts to bring a unique perspective to business education and practice. Before joining Vanderbilt, she served in marketing and communications roles for two international faith-based non-profit agencies located in Nashville, served as a communications consultant and has taught branding and public relation seminars for professional communicators.

	Miguel Palacios Assistant Professor of Finance MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Miguel Palacios’ primary research interests are in the areas of asset pricing and labor economics, particularly as they relate to human capital. Miguel is an instrument-rated pilot, and has been a member of Colombia’s water skiing team. He recently ranked third (2006) and fourth (2008) on the West Coast in men’s II Trick Water Skiing.

	Hans Stoll The Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Professor of Finance; Director, Financial Markets Research Center; Faculty Director, MS Finance Program MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Hans Stoll came to Vanderbilt in 1980 from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School where he had been a faculty member since 1966. He has published several books and more than 60 articles on subjects including the forward foreign exchange market, options, commodity futures, small business financing, the impact of institutional investors on the stock market, regulation of securities markets, the theory of dealers in securities markets, the law of one price in international commodity markets, the new option markets, the small firm effect, stock index futures, stock market structure and volatility, bid-ask spreads on the NYSE versus Nasdaq markets, and other subjects.

	Robert Whaley Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management (Finance); Co-Director, Financial Markets Research Center MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Robert Whaley is a renowned expert in the field of derivative securities, including contract valuation and risk management, market microstructure and market volatility. His distinguished teaching career, numerous articles, and many books have brought him national and international recognition in both the business and academic worlds. Among his many industry innovations are the development of the Market Volatility Index (VIX), the NASDAQ Market Volatility Index (VXN) and the BuyWrite Monthly Index (BXM) for the Chicago Board Options Exchange

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	Christoph Schenzler Research Associate of Finance MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Christoph Schenzler teaches Financial Data Analysis, which introduces Owen students to the many financial databases used in empirical research in finance. Christoph, who has taught at Vanderbilt since 1989, also maintains and develops databases that are used by investigators in finance, accounting and economics.

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