I am currently a Lecturer in the Department of Finance and proud to be associated with the University of Michigan Business School. For the Fall of 2005 I am teaching two MBA level courses, FIN622 - Introduction to Financial Engineering and FIN640, Trading. I am also teaching an undergraduate class FIN315, primarily devoted to the management of depository institutions. In the Spring I will be teaching a full semester of MBA level investments as well as sections of the course in Financial Trading and Financial Engineering. The full range of classes I have (or soon will have) taught  include:

Research: My research interests include bank regulation and credit allocation, consumer debt consolidation and re negotiation, evolutionary economics, behavioral finance, and modeling economic develop using ideas of bounded rationality. The following papers are accessible as Microsoft Word files.

Share Price Performance and Observable Factors: A Perspective from Rule Induction

On the Relationship between Creditors, Consumer Credit Councils and Debt-strapped Consumers

Towards a Theory of Economic Change in Indigenous Cultures: The Case for Evolutionary Dynamics Incorporating Economic and Cultural Interpenetration

This last piece has been especially interesting to work with, being a joint piece with two cultural anthropologists.

Click here for a copy of my vita.

As this site expands, I hope to add several additional pages, one where I post photos and descriptions of travels my wife, Helga Beck and I have been on. I am also a musician (of sorts) and those similarly inclined may want to visit my Music Den. If you follow the links long enough, you will end up at some of my guitar arrangements of favorite songs of mine through the years (no original compositions yet.)  

For a picture of my best friend, click here!

Interesting Links:

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For an interesting (and at times humorous) perspective on politics, go here!