Ben Branch

Education

PhD Economics, University of Michigan, 1970 MA Economics, University of Michigan, 1968 MA Economics, University of Texas, 1967 BA Mathematics, Emory University, 1965

Academic Appointments

Finance Department, UMass Amherst, 1975-76 Assistant Professor, 1976-79 Associate Professor, 1979-Present Professor PhD Director, School of Management, UMass Amherst, 1989-1991 and 2008-2009

Research Interests

• Investments
• Bankruptcies
• Strategic Planning
• Futures Markets
• Corporate Finance
• Industrial Organization

Teaching Interests

• Investments
• Corporate Finance
• Industrial Organization
• Financial Institutions

Recent Honors & Awards

Rackham Fellowship, Winter 1969 Phi Kappa Phi, 1969 Brookings Fellowship, 1969

Selected Publications

"An Updated Model of Price to Book", (with Anurag Sharma, Chetan Chawla and Feng Tu), Journal of Applied Finance(Accepted)

"Do Socially Responsible Index Funds Incur an Opportunity Cost?" (with Li Cai), Presented to the 2010 Eastern Finance Association meetings and to be presented to the 2010 Financial Management Association Meetings, The Financial Review, Volume 47, No. 3, pp 617-630.

"What We Like about Closed End Funds that Trade at a Discount" (with Liping Qui) Alternative Investments Analyst Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 64-73.