Arthur joined the PhD program (Finance) at the DeGroote School of Business in September 2012. His current research interests include asset pricing, investment, and corporate finance.
Current Position: Financial Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of the Treasury at Washington D.C.
After earning his Bachelor degree, Arthur held a full-time internship at a real estate development company, and a six-month traineeship at Fidelity Bank in Wichita, Kansas. During his studies at Wichita State University, he worked as a graduate assistant. Prior to coming to McMaster, he spent one year as a research assistant at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and one year as a research assistant at the department of finance at West Virginia University.
In the Fall of 2014, Arthur held the position of Instructor for 3FB3, Security Analysis – a third year undergraduate course at McMaster University. Arthur’s teaching interests include investments, corporate finance, financial economics, and financial institutions.
Social Screens and Systematic Investor Boycott Risk (with Ronald Balvers). Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Monetary Shocks, Equity Returns and Volatility – A Firm-Level Panel Data Analysis (with Jen-Chi Cheng and Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg). Forthcoming, Applied Economics.