Nicholas Lash

About

Professor Lash has been at Loyola University Chicago since 1980 where he has served as Chair of the Finance Department for 11 years and two years as Acting Chair. He has taught a variety of finance courses but he concentrates primarily on Management of Financial Institutions and Corporate Financial Management. He has won teaching awards at Loyola at the graduate level twice and three times at the undergraduate level.  

Before coming to Loyola he taught at DePaul University (1974 to 1980), Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey:  1973 to 1974) and worked as a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1971 to 1973). As a John F. Kennedy - Fulbright Award Recipient, he taught in Thailand at the National Institute of Development Administration (1988). Upon receiving his BA, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand teaching English.

He has published articles in the following areas: banking, savings & loans failures, African-American banking, monetary and fiscal policy, economic development, and international trade. Most recently, his published research has concentrated primarily in the areas of corruption and microfinance.  His work has appeared in numerous journals including: Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Developing Areas, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking; Land Economics; and Decision Sciences. 

Degrees

• PhD, Economics, Wayne State University, 1971
• MA, Economics, Wayne State University, 1967
• BA, Economics, Wayne State University, 1962

Research Interests

• Corruption and Economic and Financial Development
• Minority Banking
• Financial intermediation and economic development
• Microfinance
• Social Entrepreneurship

Professional & Community Affiliations

Professional Associations

•  Midwest Finance Association
•  Western Economic Association
•  Heartland Institution
•  Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
•  Fulbright Association
•  Member of Advisory Board, J_ournal of Economic Asymmetries_ (2003- present)
•  Member of the Editorial Board of Aestimatio, the IEB International Journal of Finance (2010 –present)
•  Member Policy Board of Advisors, Heartland Institute (February 1992 -present)
•  Member of the Editorial Board of Spoudai (2013-present)
•  Member of the Editorial Board of European Research Studies (2013- present)
•  Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Economics & Business Administration (2013-present)

Professional Activities

Referee for:

• Empirical Economics
• Review of Financial Economics
• Journal of Economic Asymmetries
• Journal of Developing Areas
• Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
• Journal of Economics and Business
• Quarterly Journal of Business Economics
• Accounting and Business Research
• Journal of Economics
• Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
• Journal of Business Research

Courses Taught

• FINC 347. Financial Institutions
• FINC 332. Business Finance
• FINC 450. Financial Management
• FINC 456. Management of Financial Institutions
• FINC 552. Financial Institutions (Bangkok)