NIKIFOROS T. LAOPODIS, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Finance
Department of Finance
School of Business
Fairfield University
North Benson Rd.
Fairfield, CT 06430, USA
Tel. (203) 254 4000 ext. 3273
Fax (203) 254 4105
E-mail: nlaopodis@mail.fairfield.edu

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COURSE INFORMATION

FALL 2009

Introduction to Finance: (Syllabus)
Assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4,

Investment Analysis, FI540 (Syllabus)
Assignments: A1, A2, A3
Readings: TBA

Principles of Investments: Sections B and C, FI210 (Syllabus)
Lectures/Handouts: 1, 2, 3
Assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4
Review Sheet

Seminar in Fixed Income Securities: Section FI398A (Syllabus)
Assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4
EXCEL worksheet

Financial Management, FI215 (Syllabus)
Assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4
Handouts: 1, 2, 3

Fixed Income Securities (Syllabus)
Assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4
Documents:

Case Studies in Finance (Syllabus)
Case 1, 2, (extra), 3, 4, 5

Research Methods in Finance (Syllabus)
Assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4
Readings: 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Specialization Areas: International Finance and Financial Econometrics.

M.A. in Business Economics. Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Thesis
Topic:  Forecasting: Why Are the Economists Not Successful Any More?

B.Sc. in Economics. University of Macedonia (formerly Graduate Industrial School of Thessaloniki), Greece.

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SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Fiscal Policy and Stock Market Efficiency: Evidence for the United States, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (forthcoming)

Dynamic Interactions Among Interest Rates, Stock Market, Federal Funds Rate and Economic Activity, The Financial Review 41(4), 2006 pp. 513-545.

Portfolio Diversification Benefits Within Europe: Implications for the US Investor, International Review of Financial Analysis 14(4)), pp. 455-476, 2005.

Feedback Trading and Autocorrelation Interactions in the Foreign Exchange Market, Further Evidence, Economic Modeling 22(5), 2005, pp. 811-827

Financial Market Liberalization and Stock Market Efficiency: Evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange, Global Finance Journal 15, 2004, pp. 103-123 (lead article).

European and International Asymmetry: The 'German Dominance Hypothesis' Revisited, Journal of Economics and Business 56(2), 2004, pp. 75-97 (lead article).

Monetary Policy Implications of Linkages Among Capital Markets: A VAR Approach, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 14, 2004, pp. 135-164.

Dynamic Linkages Between Wall Street and Main Street, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 42, 2002, pp. 803-815 (with B. Sawhney)

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WORKING PAPERS

European Monetary Integration

Dynamic Linkages Between Investment and the Stock market

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SPEECH INVITATION: Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK, March 6, 2003

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Economic Association
American Finance Association
Eastern Finance Association
Financial Management Association
Multinational Finance Society
Southern Finance Association
Southwestern Finance Association

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LINKS:

General Finance and Economics

Global Financial Data
The Economist
Business Week
Fortune
FRED
IMF
EURO
http://repec.org/

Research in Finance

http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/frameg.html

European Financial Management's site: http://www.efmaefm.org/xyz.html, http://www.efmaefm.org/data.htm
and http://www.efmaefm.org/stockex.htm

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS: Leisure

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