Professor Robert F. Whitelaw is Professor of Finance and Chairman of the Finance Department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. He has a Ph.D. in finance from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. in mathematics from MIT. Professor Whitelaw teaches corporate and managerial finance in the MBA and undergraduate programs. He also teaches fixed income securities, equity investments, derivatives, and risk management at the executive level and asset pricing at the doctoral level. Professor Whitelaw's research interests include the relation between risk and return in the stock and bond markets, the pricing and hedging of fixed income derivative securities, risk measurement and management, and market efficiency. His papers have been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, as well as practitioner journals such as the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Fixed Income, and Risk. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Program on Asset Pricing, and a past Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Finance. Professor Whitelaw's work experience includes two years spent in the Public Finance Department at Shearson Lehman, where he was involved in structuring tax-exempt bond financings. He also provides consulting services to corporations and financial institutions, specializing in pricing and hedging complex securities, risk management, and equity trading. |