Eduardo S. Schwartz, Anderson Graduate School of Management at
the University of California, Los Angeles
Gordon A. Sick, Haskayne School of Business, University of
Calgary
Carmen Aranda LËon, University of Navarra
Andrea Gamba, University of Verona
Due to limited space, only the first 40 applicants will be accepted. Preference will be accorded to PhD students.
Accommodation at reduced prices will be provided to the students who register before May 31, 2003.
Eduardo S. Schwartz is the California Professor of Real Estate and
Professor of Finance, Anderson Graduate School of Management at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
He has an Engineering degree from the University of Chile and a Masters and
Ph.D. in Finance from the University of British Columbia.
He has been in the faculty at the University of British Columbia and
visiting at the London Business School and the University of California at
Berkeley.
His wide-ranging research has focused on different dimensions
in asset and securities pricing. Topics in recent years include interest
rate models, asset allocation issues, evaluating natural resource
investments, pricing Internet companies, the stochastic behavior of
commodity prices and valuing patent-protected R&D projects. His collected
works include more than eighty articles in finance and economic journals,
two monographs, an edited book, and a large number of monograph chapters,
conference proceedings, and special reports.
He is the winner of a number of awards for both teaching excellence and for
the quality of his published work.
He has been associate editor for more than a dozen journals, including the
Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of
Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
He is past president of the Western Finance Association and the American
Finance Association. He is a Fellow of the American Finance Association
and the Financial Management Association International. He is a Research
Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was awarded a
Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alicante in Spain.
He has also been a consultant to governmental agencies, banks, investment
banks and industrial corporations.
Gordon A. Sick is a member of the Haskayne School of Business
since 1988, previously taught at the Yale School of Organization and
Management, the University of Alberta and the University of British
Columbia.
In addition to a PhD and an M.Sc. in Finance, from the University of
British Columbia, Dr. Sick also has an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the
University of Toronto.
He has been a director of the Financial Management Association, the Western
Finance Association and also the Finance Division Chairperson of the
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. He chaired the 1999
Northern Finance Association Conference.
Dr. Sick consults internationally on real options, risk assessment and
derivatives. In the past, he has published articles on cash management,
capital budgeting and asymmetric information models.
He has been an Associate Editor of Management Science and is the Book
Review Editor for the Journal of Finance. He has published articles in
the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of
Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Financial
Management, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Journal of
Urban Economics. His Principles of Corporate Finance, Second Canadian
Edition, with Brealey, Myers and Giammarino, is an introductory finance
text that is widely used in Canadian undergraduate and MBA programs.
Dr. Sick's current research interests include capital budgeting, the impact
of interest tax shields on project valuation, real options, cost of
capital, real estate, seasonalities in security returns and the cost of
banking services.
Carmen Aranda has been a member of the School of
Economics and Business at the University of Navarra in Spain since
1998. In addition to her Business and Economics degree from the
aforementioned University, she studied at the University of
California, Los Angeles as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision
of Prof. Brennan.
Her research interests have recently shifted from
efficiency in the Spanish Financial market to real options, cost of
capital, valuation of biotech companies and credit risk. Dr. Aranda
consults nationally on risk assessment and real options, being one of
the leading experts in her country for this topic. In addition, she
is well known for her teaching skills not only with students but also
with managers. In this respect, she currently conducts a managers'
training program for a prestigious financial institution in Spain.
Andrea Gamba is Associate Professor of Financial Mathematics at the
University of Verona. He previously taught at the University Ca' Foscari of
Venice, Italy, and has been a visiting at New York University, Purdue
University and University of Calgary.
He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Mathematics from the University of Trieste. A
former member of Real Options Group, he consults internationally
on real options and derivative pricing.
His current research interests are in investment valuation and capital
budgeting, real options valuation and interaction with financing
decisions, and in numerical methods for derivative valuation.