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Faculty and Staff

Ricardo  Rodríguez

Ricardo Rodríguez

Associate Professor, Finance

(305) 284-1887
Jenkins 514S
rrodriguez@miami.edu


Research Interests

  • Corporate finance—new portfolio analysis techniques
  • Use of options as corporate tools

Selected Publications

“The Impact of Hurricane Landfalls on Insurance Firms’ Returns,” Journal of Research in Finance (coauthor with Barrett)

“Graphical Portfolio Analysis,” The Financial Review

“Regression to the Mean and Mean Reversion in Futures Markets” Journal of Financial Engineering (coauthor with Kolb and Okunev)

“Quality Dispersion and the Feasibility of Dividends as Signals,” Journal of Financial Research


Teaching and Professional Experience

  • Instructor, financial seminars for executives in Washington, D.C., Miami and 17 Latin American cities
  • Consultant for restaurants, soft drink bottlers, newspaper publishers, real estate developers, retail stores and other businesses
  • Founder and former Director, American Association of Salvadorean Professionals

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Finance, University of Texas at Austin, 1986
  • MBA, INCAE (Nicaragua), 1977
  • B.S., Electromechanical Engineer, University of El Salvador, 1974

Specialties

  • Corporate finance
  • Investment analysis
  • Relationship between risk and return

    School of Business Administration
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