G. Andrew Karolyi
Charles R. Webb Professor of Finance
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E-mail: Karolyi@cob.osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-0229
Fax: (614) 292-2418
Department of Finance
The Ohio State University
824 Fisher Hall
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Professor Karolyi is an internationally-known scholar in the area of investment management with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in top-tier journals in financial economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. He serves as an associate editor for a variety of journals, including the Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal, which he edited between 1999 and 2003. He is the past recipient of the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance and of the Fisher College of Business’ Pace Setter Awards for Excellence in Research and Graduate Teaching.
Professor Karolyi holds the Charles R. Webb Designated Professorship in Finance which is dedicated to the advancement of research in investment management. He directs Ohio State University’s Student Investment Management program in which undergraduate and graduate students manage $16 million of the university’s endowment fund. His teaching interests focus on securities markets and investments at the MBA and undergraduate levels and on financial econometrics at the PhD level. He teaches regularly in executive education programs in Europe, Asia, Canada and the U.S. and consults for various major financial institutions, banks and stock exchanges.
Professor Karolyi joined the faculty of the Fisher College of Business in 1989 to teach and do research in Finance. He has also taught at the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Business of the University of Alberta and the Australian Graduate School of Management. Professor Karolyi received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from McGill University in 1983 and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in their Research Department. He subsequently studied for his M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees in Finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.
