FINANCE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

2010 CFA Scholarships announced

2010 CFA scholarships were recently announced. Students were competing for one of five scholarships that will cover their expenses to take the CFA exam next June.

The five undergraduate awards were presented to:
Routing Sun
Jeff Smith
Bill Schwartz
Sarada Weerasinghe
Wun Shuen Wong

Please join us in congratulating them on their award.

Andrei Simonov

Andrei Simonov

Associate Professor

321 Eppley Center
Phone: 517-884-0455
Email: simonov@bus.msu.edu

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Research Interests

  • Asset pricing, individual portfolio decision and behavioral finance. Currently, his main area of research is on the effects of behavioral biases, corporate governance, and social interactions on individuals’ portfolio decisions and market participation

Bio(s)

  • Andrei Simonov is Associate Professor of Finance at Michigan State University since 2008. He is also CEPR Research Affiliate in the Financial Economics program, research affiliate at Stockholm School of Economics (SITE) and a Research Associate in Stockholm International Corporate Governance Institute. He received Ph.D. in Finance from European Institute of Business Administration ( INSEAD, 2000). He also holds Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Moscow State University. He teaches courses in fixed income, asset pricing and financial markets. His research interests include asset pricing, individual portfolio decision and behavioral finance. Currently, his main area of research is on the effects of behavioral biases, corporate governance, and social interactions on individuals’ portfolio decisions and market participation. Andrei is recipient of several grants and awards. Recently, he was awarded 2006 EFA/LECG Prize for best paper in Behavioral Finance, 2006 Iddo Sarnat Memorial Award and was one of the winners of BSI Gamma Foundation Research Competition. His work is regularly presented at leading finance conferences including American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, European Finance Association, CEPR and NBER meetings. His publications appear in Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Swedish Economic Policy Review. His research has been covered extensively in the popular press, including, among others, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and Dow Jones Market Watch. He also acts as research advisor to Millennium Global Quantitative Fund .