FACULTY
Mahnaz Mahdavi
Professor
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Office: Neilson 3/11 |  |
Phone: 413-585-3629 |
Office Hours: Fall 2012 TBA |
Mahnaz Mahdavi received a B.A. and N.I.O.C. from the College of Accounting and Finance and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is an inaugural recipient of the Sherred Award for distinguished teaching in 2004.
Mahdavi has taught courses in corporate finance, international finance, international financial markets and macroeconomics, and has been a participating member of the Smith Summer Executive Education, Management and alumnae programs.
Mahdavi's research has focused on the areas of international finance and finance. Her current research projects include the comparison of international interest rate process, conditional correlation among international equity markets and college students and financial literacy (credit cards, student loans and investing).
In 2002, Mahdavi was an appointed delegate of the state of Massachusetts to the National Retirement and Saving Summit organized by the Department of Labor. She is the founding director of the Women and Financial Independence Program at Smith.
