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Geoffrey C Friesen
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Geoffrey C Friesen

Associate Professor of Finance
Finance
Contact Information

CBA 237
P.O. Box 880490
Lincoln, NE 68588-0490
Phone: +1-402-472-2334
Fax: +1-402-472-5140
gfriesen2@unl.edu

Joined the college in Summer 2005.

Expertise
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Financial Markets & Investing
  • Insurance
Education
Ph.D. University of Iowa (2003)
B.S. University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1995)
Research Interests
Investments, behavioral finance, empirical asset pricing, mutual fund performance evaluation, insurance and risk management, cognitive psychology
Teaching Interests
Investments (363), Security Analysis (463), Portfolio Practicum (468), Options, Futures and Derivatives (467), PhD Seminar - Advanced Financial Theory (961)
Published In
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Risk and Insurance, North American Actuarial Journal
Additional Information
Working Papers “The Psychology of Dollar-Cost Averaging,” 2010, with Lee Dunham (former PhD Student) “Extremely Tradable Funds: An Empirical Examination of the Returns Earned by ETF Investors,” 2010, with Travis Sapp “Investor Timing and Fund Distribution Channels,” 2010, with Mercer Bullard and Travis Sapp “Heterogeneous Beliefs and Cross-sectional stock returns,” 2010, with Yi Zhang (former PhD Student) and Tom Zorn “Mergers and Beliefs,” 2009 with Todd Brown (former PhD student) and Tom Zorn. Ownership structure, agency cost and second-stage conversions in the demutualized thrift industry, 2009, with Chris Swift (former PhD student).