Handbook of Financial Econometrics and Statistics

Über den Autor

Cheng-Few Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University and was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988-1995. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois (IBE Professor of Finance) and the University of Georgia. He has maintained academic and consulting ties in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the United States for the past three decades. He has been a consultant to many prominent groups including, the American Insurance Group, the World Bank, the United Nations and The Marmon Group Inc., Wintek Corporation and Polaris Financial Group, etc. Professor Lee founded the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA) in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP) in 1998, and serves as managing editor for both journals. He was also a co-editor of the Financial Review (1985-1991) and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business (1987-1989). In the past thirty-two years, Dr. Lee has written numerous textbooks ranging in subject matter from financial management to corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management to financial analysis, planning and forecasting, and business statistics. Dr. Lee has also published more than 200 articles in more than twenty different journals in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and management. Professor Lee has been ranked the most published finance professor worldwide during 1953-2008. Alice C. Lee is currently a Vice President in the Model Validation Group, Enterprise Risk Management, at State Street Corporation. Most recently, she was an Assistant Professor of Finance at San Francisco State University. She has over 20 years of experience and a diverse background, which includes academia, engineering, sales, and management consulting. Her primary areas of teaching and research are corporate finance and financial institutions. She is coauthor of Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 2e (with Cheng F. Lee and John C. Lee) and Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, 2e (with Cheng F. Lee and John C. Lee). In addition, she has co-edited other annual publications including Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (with Cheng F. Lee). John C. Lee is a Microsoft Certified Professional in Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel VBA. He has a Bachelor and Masters degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. John has worked over 20 years in both the business and technical fields as an accountant, auditor, systems analyst and as a business software developer. He is the author of the book on how to use MINITAB and Microsoft Excel to do statistical analysis which is a companion text to Statistics of Business and Financial Economics, of which he is one of the co-authors. In addition, he also published Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, 2e (with Cheng F. Lee and Alice C. Lee). John has been a Senior Technology Officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank and Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for PBBEF Research.