Tom McCurdy

Professor of Finance;Bonham Chair in International Finance;Founder and Academic Director, BMO Financial Group Finance Research & Trading Lab;Status cross-appointment with Economics at Rotman School of Management

Schools

  • Rotman School of Management

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Biography

Rotman School of Management

Bio

Tom McCurdy holds the Bonham Chair in International Finance and is a Professor of Finance at Rotman (with a status cross-appointment to the Department of Economics). He is the Founder & Academic Director of the BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab, and has been an Associate Fellow at the CIRANO Research Institute (Montreal), and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Econometrics. Recent research includes forecasting correlations; real-time identification of structural breaks and model changes; jump and crash risk; and simulation-based learning. Tom is the co-founder of the RIT market simulator package which includes more than 40 simulation cases which are currently being used by many universities around the globe. He teaches in the MBA, Master of Finance, Masters of Mathematical Finance, Master of Financial Risk Management and Commerce Programs. Explore more of Tom’s research and teaching interests.

Academic Positions

1980-1996  Professor; Queen''s University

1999-present  Founder & Academic Director, BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab; Rotman School of Management

1996-present  Professor of Finance; Rotman School of Management

2002-present  Bonham Chair in International Finance; Rotman School of Management

Honors and Awards

  Parliamentary Internship Fellowship; Canadian Political Science Association and House of Commons, Ottawa

  Research Prize for best paper; Northern Finance Association Meetings

  Roger Martin Award for Teaching Excellence; Rotman School of Management

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