Steven Katz

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance

Steve.Katz@baruch.cuny.edu
http://speiser.baruch.cuny.edu/~katz/

Education:

BA	Yeshiva University	1965
MS	Graduate School of Engineering, NYU	1969
MBA	Stern School of Business, NYU	1972
PhD	Stern School of Business, NYU	1973
Rabbinic Ordination	Yeshiva University	1969

 

Areas of Expertise:

Corporate Finance, Capital Raising, Capital Markets, Investment Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis

 

Selected Publications:

"Stock Market Behavior Around Distress and Recovery Predictions" (with S. Lilien and B. Nelson). Financial Analysts Journal, January-February 1985.

"A Portfolio Approach to Fossil Fuel Procurement in the Electric Utility Industry" (with D. Bar-Lev). Journal of Finance, 31 (3): 226-39, June 1976.

"The Differential Effects of Industrial and Utility Bond Rating Changes on Bond Yield" (with P. Grier). Journal of Business, 49 (2): 933-47, April 1976.

A Guide to the Financially Perplexed (with H. Friedman). Topics in Finance series. Variety Press, 1975.

"The Price Adjustment Process of Bonds to Rating Reclassification: A Test of Bond Market Efficiency." Journal of Finance, May 1974, pp. 551-59.

Professional Activities:

Presented cost/benefit studies in wound care at Techvest Healthcare Conference, 1999-2001 and at UBS Warburg Global Life Science Conference, 1999-2000.