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Michael Pagano

Professor, Finance

Bartley Hall Rm 2041
Finance
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
michael.pagano@villanova.edu
(610) 519-4389

Areas of Expertise
  • Banking; Central America; Convergence; Econometrics; Europe; International Finance; Interest Rates; Market Efficiency; Mutual Funds; Quantitative Analysis; Risk Management; Stock Trading; Valuation
Research Topics
  • Market microstructure; financial institutions; risk management
Courses Taught
  • Financial Modeling; Market Structure, Trading, and Liquidity; Corporate Risk Management; Financial Markets, Institutions, and the Trading Environment; Applied Corporate Finance; Financial Institutions
Selected Publications
  • "Credit, Cronyism, and Control: Evidence from the Americas," 2006, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2006 (forthcoming)
  • With Elyas Elyasiani and Iqbal Mansur, "Convergence and Risk-Return Linkages across Financial Service Firms," 2006, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2006 (forthcoming)
  • With R. Schwartz, "Nasdaq 's Closing Cross: Has its new call auction given Nasdaq better closing prices? Early Findings," Journal of Portfolio Management, 2005
  • With D. Stout, "Calculating a Firm 's Cost of Capital," Management Accounting Quarterly, 2004
  • With R. Schwartz, "A Closing Call's Impact on Market Quality at Euronext Paris," Journal of Financial Economics, 2003
  • With J. Hughes, W. Lang, L. Mester, and C.G. Moon, "Do Bankers Sacrifice Value to Build Empires? Managerial Incentives, Industry Consolidation, and Financial Performance," Journal of Banking and Finance, 2003
Recent Teaching Innovations
  • Developed new courses in market structure and financial intermediation that employ the Applied Finance Lab as the primary classroom for putting finance theory into practice.
Awards
  • Southern Finance Association Best Paper Award, 2005; Silver Medal for Lybrand Best Paper Competition, 2005; Outstanding Scholar Award, Villanova University, 2004-2005; U.S. Fulbright Scholarship (for Costa Rica), 2002-03; Summer Research Fellowship, Villanova University, 2001; Fisher-Long-Whitcomb Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers University, 1998.
Academic Positions
  • Rutgers University; Baruch College/CUNY
Nonacademic Positions
  • Positions - Commercial Banker; Investment Analyst; Product Specialist; General Manager; Firms - Citibank; ICM Corporation; Reuters America
Editorial Positions
  • Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies International Journal of Managerial Finance
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