Yusif Simaan

Business faculty - Yusif Simaan

Professor
Finance and Business Economics
Joined Fordham: 1990

General Information:
140 W. 62nd Street, Room 309,
New York, NY 10023

Email: [email protected]

  • Yusif Simaan is a professor of finance and business economics at the Gabelli School of Business, as well as the director of the graduate division's M.S. program in investor relations.

    Professor Simaan holds a Ph.D. from Baruch College of the City University of New York; an M.S. from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology; and a B.A. from Haifa University in Israel. He has offered consulting expertise to the Electronic Traders Association and Automated Trading Desk and has won best-paper honors from Open Economies Review.

    • Ph.D.: CUNY (Baruch)
    • Master's: M.S., Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
    • Bachelor's: B.A., Haifa University (Israel)
    • Market microstructure
    • Portfolio theory
    • Capital asset pricing
    • Estimation risk in investment decisions
    • International finance
    • “Market Maker Quotation Behavior and Pretrade Transparency,”
      with Daniel G. Weaver, and David K. Whitcomb, The Journal of Finance, Volume 58 N. 3 pp 1247 -1267, June 2003
    • “A Rational Explanation for Home International Money and Finance,”
      (with Iftekhar Hasan), The Journal of International Money and Finance. Vol 19, N. 3 , pp. 331-361. June 2000