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.

Joshua Pollet

Associate Professor

315 Eppley Center
Phone: (517) 884-0549
Email: pollet@msu.edu

Research Interests

  • Asset Pricing, Behavioral finance, Corporate finance

Bio(s)

  • Joshua Pollet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a BA in economics and mathematics from Emory University. During his career Pollet has taught introductory courses in corporate finance and investments for undergraduates as well as a course about the empirical analysis of equity returns for graduate students. His research has been published by several leading academic journals and discussed by popular media outlets including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Articles

  • Pollet & Wilson. (forthcoming). "Average Correlation and Stock Market Returns". Journal of Financial Economics.
  • DellaVigna & Pollet. (2009 April). "Investor Inattention and Friday Earnings Announcements". Journal of Finance 64: 709-749.
  • Pollet & Wilson. (2008 December). "How Does Size Affect Mutual Fund Behavior?". Journal of Finance 63: 2941-2969.
  • DellaVigna & Pollet. (2007 December). "Demographics and Industry Returns". American Economic Review 97: 1667-1702.
  • Brown, Liebman & Pollet. (2002). "Estimating Life Tables that Reflect Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality". The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform 447-457.