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JAMES N. BODURTHA JR
Associate Professor


EDUCATION:
New York University, Ph.D., finance and economics, dissertation, "Asset Pricing with Investment Restrictions: Theory and International Evidence," Marti Subrahmanyan, Chairman, 1983. M.Phil., finance and economics, 1982.

Vassar College, B.A., major in East Asian Studies, thesis, "Elementary School Education in Taiwan," 1975, and Certificate in Mandarin and Classical Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University, Mandarin Center, Taipei, Taiwan, June-December 1974.
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Professor Bodurtha teaches derivative- and international financial market-related courses. His research work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Derivatives Accounting, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Review of Financial Studies, as well as other scholarly and applied publications. He has developed the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Currency Options Database, and models for currency and interest rate risk management, valuation, and accounting. This work and his other research have been funded by Ohio State, Michigan, Bloomberg, Georgetown, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Citibank, Nikko Securities, and Société Générale. He has served on the founding committees of the University of Michigan Rackam Graduate Financial Engineering and the Georgetown University Industrial Leadership in Physics Ph.D. Programs.

Prof. Bodurtha's work includes management education, feasibility studies, strategy formulation and risk management analyses for leading global financial institutions. He was also core Executive Education faculty in the Corporate Financial Management and Finance for the Non-Financial Manager seminars at the Michigan Business School, which Business Week rated #1 in the world.

He was recipient of the Jules I. Bogen Fellowship, the AACSB-R.J. Reynolds Dissertation Fellowship, the Herman E. Kroos Dissertation Award and a Queen's Univeristy Summer Research Fellowship. He has also served on New York University, The Ohio State University and University of Michigan faculties.

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