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Curriculum Vita

William Shambora

Business Address
205 Haning Hall
Dept. of Economics
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Tel: (740) 593-1845
E-mail: shambora@ohiou.edu

Education
Ph.D. (Economics) Economics, University of Kentucky, 2000
M.S. (Economics), University of Ken tucky, 1998
B.A. (Sociology), Marshall University, 1973. Summa cum laude, Honors in Sociology, Interdisciplinary Honors


Dissertation
"Role of Time Movement of Short-Term Interest Rate on the Inference About the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure"
Committee Chair: Professor Mukhtar M. Ali
Professional Experience
September 2000 to present, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of Economics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I work with a new masters degree program in Financial Economics where students prepare for careers in investment analysis.

Research and Teaching Interests
Financial Economics, International Economics, Monetary Economics

Scholarly Accomplishments
Working paper: "A Simple Model of Money" (2000)
Working paper: "Anomalous Inferences in the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates", with Mukhtar M. Ali (2000). Presented at the 2000 Souther n Economic Association Conference.

Teaching Seminars Attended
TA Orientation, 1996: Week-long course for new teaching assistants
Teaching Economics Workshop, 1997: Regional week-end session for Economics instructors
Teaching Economics Workshop, 1998: Regional week-end session for Economics instructors
Business and Economics 700: A week-long, one-credit hour course for teaching assistants
Numerous one-hour s eminars provided by the University Teaching and Learning Center

Honors and Services
Graduate School Fellowship, 1999-2000
Departmental Fellowship, Spring 2000
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 1999-2000
Coordinator, Economics Department Graduate Student Seminar Series, 1999-2000

Relevant Non-Academic Experience
Business experience includes thirteen years' experience as a Financial Advisor (stockbroker) and eventually Branch Manager of a Chicago area office for Prudential Securities, a full-service investment firm. As a Financial Advisor, I developed a high level of expertise in trading derivative securities as well as traditional equities and fixed income instruments. I became familiar with and used a number of mathematical trading models as well as models based on fundamentals. Early in my career, I was asked to travel around the region teaching other brokers about the options markets and I entered the firm's first customer order on the first day of trading of equity index futures. My clientele consisted of speculators, hedgers and investors, primarily individuals and small firms. I conducted numerous public information seminars including a series of commercial hedging s eminars sponsored by the Agriculture Extension Service. When my branch was later merged with another as a result of firm-wide cost-cutting efforts, I left Chicago to operate my own consulting firm in Florida where I helped brokers to market their services.

Professional Affiliations
American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Southern Economic Association.