Emma B Rasiel, Associate Professor of the Practice, Director of the Financial Education Partnership, Director of the Duke in New York Program

Emma B. Rasiel is Associate Professor of the Practice within the economics department at Duke University. She earned her Ph.D. from Duke in 2003, and her MBA in 1990 from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She attended Oxford University for her BS. She first joined the Economics department as an assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in 2004.

Within her field, Emma’s interests focus on behavioral finance, the financing of drug development, US house prices, and emerging market equities. She recently published works entitled, “The Crumbling Foundation of US House Prices” written in collaboration with R. Temple, and “Future in Asset Allocation: A Hedging Framework” with J. Jacob, published in Lazard Investment Research. Her work has also appeared in such journals as Medical Decision Making, the Journal of International Money and Finance, The American Heart Association, and Science.

Emma is also Director of the Financial Education Partnership, a joint program with Duke's Career Center and a number of New York investment banks, and Academic Director of the Duke in New York Program.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	329H Soc. Sci
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1837
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~ebr4/erasiel.htm

Teaching (Spring 2012):  (typical courses)

• ECON 172.01, INTERMEDIATE FINANCE Synopsis

  Social Sciences 139, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as ECON 271.01)

• ECON 195S.01, GOODNER EQUITY RESEARCH PROJ. Synopsis

  Perkins 2-059, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Office Hours:

Spring Semester 2012: Walk-in office hours
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 3:00 - 5:00, Fridays 2pm - 4pm.
No appointment necessary

Education:

PhD	Duke University	2003
MBA	The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	1990
BS	Oxford University	1986

Specialties:

Financial Economics
Health Economics

Areas of Interest:

Behavioral Finance
Financial Decision-Making
Emerging Market Equity performance

Keywords:

Behavioral Finance • Financial Decision-Making • Emerging Markets

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. E.B. Rasiel, R Califf, K. Schulman, Considerations of Net Present Value in Policy Making Regarding Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies, American Heart Association, vol. In Press (Summer, 2008)
2. E.B. Rasiel, J. Jacob, Index Volatility Futures in Asset Allocation: A Hedging Framework, Lazard Asset Management--Investment Research (Spring, 2008)
3. E.B. Rasiel, R Temple, Prime and Subprime Mortgage Foreclosure Analysis, Lazard Asset Management--Investment Research (2007)
4. Glickman, Rasiel, Dukes Hamilton, Kubataev, & Schulman, Portfolio Model of Drug Development for Tuberculosis, Science (2006)
5. Rasiel, Schulman and Weinfurt, Can Prospect Theory Explain Risk-Seeking Behavior by Terminally Ill Patients, Medical Decision Making (2005)