Intelectual Contributions (January 1994 to Present)

 

Ghassem  A . Homaifar, Ph. D

Professor of Financial Economics

 

Department of Economics and Finance

 

Books:

Ghassem A. Homaifar “Managing Global Financial and Foreign Exchange Rate Risk,” January 2004, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

 

Journal Articles:

G. Homaifar and Nadim Naqvi, “The Economics of Racial Discrimination,” Economia Internazionale, International Economics, Forthcoming 2004.

 

M. Deme, G. Homaifar and F. Michello, “Regional Free Trade Arrangements in West Africa: An Assessment of ECOWAS” African World, Vol 3, Summer 2002. PP, 20-32.

 

M. Deme and G. Homaifar, "0Penness & Economic Growth in Japan & South Korea: An Empirical Investigation." Economia Internazionale, International Economics, May 2001, vol.  LIV, No.2 Pg 163-176.

 

M. Haddad, G. Homaifar and B. Evans. "International Trade Factors and Electronic Commerce” International Journal of Business Disciplines, Spring 2001, vol. 11, No. 2 Pg 15-20.

 

G. Homaifar and J. Feller, "A Comparative Analysis of Price Earnings Anomaly: The case of efficient and Non-Efficient Betas." International Journal of Business Disciplines, Spring 2000, vol. 10, No. 2. Pg 1-6.

 

G. Homaifar, J. Zietz and O. Benkato, "Determinants of Capital Structure for Multinational and Domestic Corporations." International Economics, March 1998, vol LI, No.2, Pg 189-210.

 

“Determinants of Capital Structure for Multinational and Domestic Corporations,” (with J. Zietz and 

 O. Benkato) Economia Internazionale, Vol. LI. No 2 (1998) : 189-210.

 

“Exchange rate Uncertainty and the Efficiency of the forward Market for Foreign Exchange: A Reply.” (with Joachim Zietz) Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 131. No. 4 (1995): 789-791.

 

 

“Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market and the Random Walk Behavior of Exchange rates.”  (with Joachim Zietz) Economia Internationale, Vol. 48, No. 3 ( August 1995): 359-373.

 

“Official Intervention and Learning in Foreign Exchange Market.” (with Jamshid Mehran) International Journal of Business Disciplines, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1995): 70-79.

 

“The Duration and Convexity of Convertible Preferred Stocks.” (with Ehsani and Lee) Applied Financial Economics, No. 4 ( 1994): 323-327.

 

 “Exchange Rate Uncertainty and the Efficiency of the Forward Market for Foreign Exchange.” (with Joachim Zietz) Weltwirtsschaftliches archiv, Vol. 130, No. 3 (1994): 461-475.

 

“An Empirical Model of Capital Structure: Some New Evidence,” (with Omar Benkato and Joachim Zietz) Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Vol. 21( January 1994): 1-14. Lead Article.

 

Conference Papers

 

International Business Research Conference, March 2001, Cancun, Mexico. Presented a paper co-authored with Thomas Tang and James Feller. “Open Interest and Investors Sentiment: The Case of Gold Futures.”

 

International Association of Research in Economic Psychology.  Presented a paper co-authored with Thomas Tang and Robeordo in July 2000, Bath, England. “ A New Model of Pay Satisfaction: Comparison across Culture and Gender.”

 

International Business Research Conference, March 2000, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Presented paper co-authored with James Feller. “A Comparative Analysis of Price Earnings Anomaly: The Case of Efficient and Non-efficient Betas.”

 

International Association of Research in Economic Psychology, July 2000; Vienna, Austria. Presented a paper co-authored with James Feller. “Investors Sentimenton and Psychology of the Market: The Case of Gold Futures.”

 

Europe Sixth Congress of Psychology; Rome, Italy, July 1999.  Presented a paper with Franklin Michello. “Psychology of Marketing Behavior, Comparing Daily Return Variance and Relative Likelihood of Extreme Observation between NYSE and JSE.”

 

“Capital Structure and Multinationality.” ( with Omar Benkato and Joachim Zietz) Global Finance Conference, Montreal Canada, April 1997.

2/B1/7/B/M13

 

“Forward Market efficiency: New Evidence” ( with Jamshid Mehran) Global finance Conference, San Diego April 1996.

1/B1/7/B/M13

 

 “Capital Structure and Multinational Firms.” (with Omar Benkato and Joachim Zietz) Financial Management Association, New York October 1995.

2/B1/7/B/M13

 

 “The Difference in Capital Structure Between Multinational and Domestic Firms.” ( with Omar Benkato and Zietz) Eastern Finance Association, Boston, April 1994.

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“Determinants of Capital Structure for Multinational and Domestic Corporations.” (with omar Benkato and joachim Zietz) Midwest Finance Association, Chicago, March 1994.

 

Reviewer for Professional Journals:

 

Peer review of article “ The Capital Structure Determinants: The Case of Jordan.” Submitted to Global Finance Journal, July 2002.

 

Peer review of article “ Variance and Lower Partial Moments Betas” Submitted to Journal of Futures Market, September 2001.

 

Peer review of article “ Option Pricing Revisited,” Submitted to Journal of Economics and Finance, April 2000.

 

Peer review of article “ International Loan Pricing Tradeoffs Revisited.” Submitted to Global Finance Journal, June 1997.

0/B4/3/NA/m1, M13

 

Peer review of article “ Hedging with the LPM Model.” Submitted to Journal of Futures Market, March 1997.

0/B4/3/NA/M7, M8

 

Peer review of article “ Market Efficiency in Developing Countries,” submitted to Applied Financial Economics, August 1996.

0/B4/3/NA/M1, M13

 

Peer review of article “ Risk Management Techniques Employed within the U.S Credit Unions.” Submitted to Global Finance Journal, March 1996.

 

Peer review of article “ International loan Pricing tradeoffs.” Submitted to global Finance Journal, August 1995.

0/B4/3/NA/M1, M13

 

Peer review of article “ Hedging with Options and Futures: A Comparsion.” Submitted to Journal of Futures Market, April 1995.

0/B4/3/NA/M1, M13

 

Peer review of article “ Information content of  Financial Leverage.” Submitted to Journal of Business Finance and Accounting , Feb 1995.

0/B4/3/NA/M2, M8

 

Peer review of article “ International Arbitrage pricing theory and evidence “ submitted to Global Finance Journal , July 1994.

0/B4/3/NA/M6, M8

 

Peer review of article “ A Test of the Tax Induced Leverage Hypothesis in Convertible Securities “ Submitted to Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, May  1994.

0/B4/3/NA/M6, M7

 

Peer review of article “ Asset Charactristics and Corporate debt policy” submitted to Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, February 1994.

0/B4/3/NA/M6, M7

 

Peer review of article “ Why Do We Reject the Mean Variance Model?” submitted to Scandinavian journal of Economics, January 1994.

0/B4/3/NA/M8

 

Peer review of article “ variance and Lower Partial Moment.” Submitted to Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, January 1994.

0/B4/3/NA/M8

 

 

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