Yusif Simaan

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 MS program in investor relations.

Professor Simaan holds a PhD from Baruch College of the City University of New York; an MS from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology; and a BA 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.

Education

• PhD: CUNY (Baruch)
• Master's: MS, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
• Bachelor's: BA, Haifa University (Israel)

Research interests

• Market microstructure
• Portfolio theory
• Capital asset pricing
• Estimation risk in investment decisions
• International finance

Publications

• “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