PERSONAL DATA SHEET

 

FRED R. KAEN

 

 

Business Address:    

Home Address:

 

 

Whittemore School of               

22 Toon Lane

Business and Economics          

Lee, N.H.  03824

University of New Hampshire       

USA

Durham, New Hampshire  03824      

 

USA

Telephone: (603) 659-2205

 

 

Telephone: (603) 862-3354

 

Fax:  (603) 862-3383

 

email: frk@christa.unh.edu

http://www.unh.edu/wsbe/faculty/frk/

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

 

International finance, financial management and policy; corporate governance

 

EDUCATION:

 

B.S.                 Lehigh University, 1963  (Economics)

 

M.B.A.            University of Michigan, 1967  (Finance)

 

Ph.D.               University of Michigan, 1972  (Finance and International Business)

 

Dissertation:  Eurocurrency and National Money Market

                        Integration: An Appraisal.

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

 

Financial Management Association

Eastern Finance Association

 

European Finance Association 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Co-Director, International Private Enterprise Center

 

Professor of Finance, University of New Hampshire:  1983 -

 

Visiting Professor of Finance, Budapest University of Economic Sciences: August 2002 – December 2002

 

Visiting Professor of Finance, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany: April 1995 - July 1995.

 

Visiting Professor of Finance, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway: April 1992-June 1992.

 

Visiting Professor of Finance, Norwegian School of Economics and Business, Bergen, Norway: 1988 - 1989.

 

Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire: 1976 - 1983.

 

Visiting Associate Professor of Finance, University of Oregon: 1981 - l982.

 

Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire: 1973 - 1976.

 

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University: 197l - 1973.

 

Financial Analyst, Ford Motor Company (Lincoln-Mercury Division): 1963 - 1966.

 

 

RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

 

Center for International Education, UNH: 1998-

 

University Senate: 1998-2000

 

University Graduate Dean Search Committee: 1997

 

Whittemore School College Promotion and Tenure Committee:  1991 - 1993, 1995 – 1996, 2002 - 2004

 


RECENT PROFESSIONALLY RELATED POSITIONS

 

Program Committee: 2000 Eastern Finance Association Meetings

 

Program Committee: 1999 Eastern Finance Association Meetings

 

Program Committee, 1996 European Finance Association Meetings

 

Associate Editor, Journal of Multinational Financial Management: 1989 -

 

Associate Editor, Multinational Finance Journal  1995 -

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"Reflections on the Economic Performance of Suppliers," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, (Summer, 1971).  (w. S. Suffrin)

 

Eurocurrency and National Money Market Integration: An Appraisal, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Michigan, l972.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1972.

 

"The Rejection of Commercial and Industrial Loans:  The New Hampshire Experience," New England Journal of Business and Economics, (Fall, l975).

 

The Behavior of Foreign Exchange Spot Prices.  University of Rhode Island Working Paper Series.  College of Business Administration.  (w. J. Burt and and G. Booth)

 

"Portfolio Characteristics of New Hampshire Mutual Savings Banks."  The New Hampshire Review, February, 1976.

 

"Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency Under Flexible Exchange Rates."  The Journal of Finance.  (September, 1977) (w. J. Burt and G. Booth)

 

Forecasting New Hampshire Liquor Revenues.  Center for Industrial and Institutional Development, University of New Hampshire.  1976 (w. J. Burt)

 

 

"Potential Information Flows Among Large Commercial Banks and Industrial Corporations."  Business and Economic Perspectives, Spring 1976.  (w. G. Booth)

 

"Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency Under Flexible Exchange Rates:  A Reply."  Journal of Finance.  (June, 1979) (w. J. Burt and G. Booth)

 

Gold and Silver Spot Prices and Market Information Efficiency."  Financial Review.  (Spring, 1979).  (w. G. Booth)

 

"Foreign Exchange Market Behavior:  1975-1978."  Rivista Internazionale Di Scienze Economiche E Commerciali.  (April, 1981) (w. G. Booth and P. Koveos)

 

"Currency Interdependence in Foreign Exchange Markets."  Financial Review (Fall, l980).  (w. G. Booth and P. Koveos)

 

"Persistent Dependence in Gold Prices."  Journal of Financial Research. (Spring, l982).  (w. G. Booth and P. Koveos)

 

"R/S Analysis of Foreign Exchange Rates Under Two International Monetary Regimes."  Journal of Monetary Economics.  (December, l982) (w. G. Booth and P. Koveos)

 

"Eurocurrency and National Money Market Interest Rates:  An Empirical Investigation of Causality."  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (August, l983) (w. G. Hachey)

 

"The Integration of Eurodollar and U.S. Money Market Interest Rates in the Futures Market."  Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (December, 1983) (w. G. Booth and B. P. Helms)

 

"Memory in Commodity Futures Markets."  The Journal of Futures Markets, (Winter, 1984).  (w. B. P. Helms and R. Rosenman)

 

"The Response of Forward Exchange Rates to Interest Rate Forecasting Errors," The Journal of Financial Research, (December, l984), (w. G. Hachey and E. Simos)

 

"An Empirical Test of Overshooting and Undershooting in the Foreign Exchange Markets," Midwestern Journal of Business and Economics, (Spring, l985) (w. G. Hachey and R. Rosenman).

 

"A Value Based Theory for Management Compensation," Gestion Cientifica, (w. J. Horrigan).

 

"Predictable Behavior in Financial Markets:  Some Evidence in Support of Heiner's Hypothesis, American Economic Review (March l986), (w. R. Rosenman).

 

"The Work of Managers:  A View from Finance," American Business Review, (w. A. Kaufman).

 

"American Political Values and Agency Theory:  A Perspective," Journal of Business Ethics  (December 1988) (with A. Kaufman and L. Zacharias).

 

 

"New Hampshire Bank Mergers:  The Returns to Acquiring Bank Shareholders" in Bank Mergers:  Current Issues and Perspectives.  Kluewer Academic Publishers (1989)  (with H. Tehranian).  

 

"A Term Structure Monetary Model of Exchange Rate Determination", Economic Notes (2, 1988) (w. E. Simos and J. Triantis)

 

"Financial Agency Theory, Mergers and Acquisitions", Praktisk Okonomi, 1989.

 

"Information Effects in Financial Distress: The Case of Seabrook Station", The Journal of Financial Economics, 26(July 1990) 143-71.. (with H. Tehranian)

 

“Review of Beale’s ‘Trading in Gold Futures’ and Clubley’s “Trading in Oil Futures”, Business Library Review 16(1990) 52-54.

 

“Introduction: Wealth Creation in Eastern Europe: Financial Management Issues and Strategies” in Wealth Creation in Eastern Europe: Financial Management Issues and Strategies, The Haworth Press, New York (1992) co editor with Ike Mathur.

 

“German Banks and German Corporate Governance,” Tokyo Club Papers No. 7 1994, Tokyo Club Foundations for Global Studies (with Heidemarie C. Sherman)

 

“Behavior and Thinking of the Bundesbank During the Period,” in European Monetary Upheavals  edited by Cobhan, Manchester University Press, 1994.  (with Heidemarie C. Sherman)

 

“European Union Equity Market Reactions to the 1992-93 ERM Crisis,” in The Global Structure of Financial Markets, Routledge,1997.

 

“The Effects of the Norwegian Banking Crisis on Bank and Non Bank Stocks,” Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 7, (1997) pp. 83-112.  (with Dag Michalsen)

 

“The Effects of Bundesbank Discount and Lombard Rate Changes on German Bank Stocks,” Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 7 pp 1-26. (1997) (with Hassan Tehranian and Heidemarie Sherman)

 

Die deutschen Banken und ihr Einfluss auf Unternehmensentscheidungen, ifo Institut, Sonderdruck aus ifo Schnelldienst Nr. 23., August 1997 (with Heidemarie Sherman)

 

 

 

"Going Public: A Corporate Governance Perspective," in Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Emerging Research, edited by Klaus Hopt, Mark J. Roe and Eddy Wymeersch, Oxford University Press, 1998.

 

"The Listing of German Firms on the New York Stock Exchange: A Corporate Governance Perspective, Tokyo Club Papers No 12, 1999 (with Heidemarie Sherman)

 

“Bundesbank Intervention Effects Through Interest Rate Policy”, Journal of International Financial Markets, December, 2000 (with G Geoffrey Booth and Heidemarie Sherman)

 

“Risk Management: A Corporate Governance Perspective,” in Risk: Challenge and Opportunity, edited by Markus Rudolf, Springer, 2000.

 

“Corporate Governance And Shareholder Value: How Did We Get Here And Where Are We Going?” CESifo Forum, forthcoming, November 2002.

 

“A Framework for Evaluating State-Assisted Financing Programs,” Public Finance and Management , vol 3, number 3, 2003 (with Ross Gittell)

 

 

 

 

PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS

 

Performance Issues of the Automobile Industry, Working Paper No. 5, Bureau of Business Research, Graduate School of Business Administration.  The University of Michigan, September, 1970.  (w. S. Suffrin)

 

"Role of the Business School in Regional Economic Development."  Presented to the 1973 Annual Meeting of the New England Conference on Business Administration, Newport, Rhode Island, October 15-16, 1974.

 

"International Industry and Market Factors in Stock Price Behavior."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association, Pittsburgh, 1974.  (w. S. Novak)

 

"The Impact of Commercial Bank Size and Location on Specific Loan Category Yields."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association.  Pittsburgh, 1974.  (w. G. Booth)

 

"A Comparative Mean-Variance Analysis of Financial Institution Equities."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association.    Pittsburgh, 1974. (w. G. Booth)

 

"The Asset and Liability Structure of Rhode Island Commercial Banks."  Proceedings of the Eastern Economic Association, Albany, 1974.  (w. G. Booth)

 

Editor, Proceedings of the 1974 New England Business and Economic Development Conference, Durham, New Hampshire:  Whittemore School of Business and Economics, the University of New Hampshire, 1974.

 

"On the Behavior of New Hampshire Mutual Savings Banks."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association, Columbia, South Carolina, 1975.  (w. G. Booth)

 

"Unsystematic Risk and the Financial Structure of the Firm."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association, Boston, Massachusetts.  (w. J. Horrigan and N. Krafft)

 

"Gold and Silver Price Movements and the Efficient Market Model." Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association, Atlanta, GA, 1978.  (w. G. Booth)

"Efficient Market Model:  Precious Metals."  Jewelry Industry Study Paper.  3rd International Precious Metals Conference.  Chicago, Ill.  1979.  (w. G. Booth and P. Koveos)

 

"The Commonality of Non-Market Risk Across Securities of the Same Company." Northeast AIDS Proceedings.  (1979)

 

"Efficiency Tests and Foreign Exchange Markets."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association.  Washington, D.C., 1979.  (w. G. Booth and P. Koveos)

 

 

"Time Series Properties of Financial Ratios."  Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association.  Washington, D.C., 1979.  (w. J. Horrigan)

 

"Persistent Dependence in Gold Prices."  Presented at Financial Management Association 1980 Meeting.  (October, 1980) (w. P. Koveos and G. Booth)

 

"Eurodollar and U.S. Money Market Interest Rate Patterns:  Future Contracts."  Financial Management Association 1982 Meeting.  (October, 1982) (w. B. Helms and G. Booth)

 

"A Multiple Time Series Test for Granger Causality in The Internal and External U.S. Dollar Markets."  1983 Eastern Finance Association Meeting (w. R. Rosenman)

 

"Memory in Commodity Futures Markets."  Presented at Financial Management  Association 1983 Meeting (October, 1983) (w. B. P. Helms and R. Rosenman)

 

"The New Hampshire Economy and U.S. Trade Policy:  Myths and Realities."  Occasional Paper #1, Whittemore School of Business and Economics,  University of New Hampshire (1984) (w. S. Schlobohm)

 

"Moral Hazard, Informational Asymmetries and the Term Structure of Default Free Government Obligations."  Western Finance Association Meetings, Vancouver, B.C., 1984 (w. R. Rosenman)

 

"Foreign and Spot Exchange Rates and Central Bank Intervention," l986 Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago. (w. D. C. Cheng and B. P. Helms).

 

"The Effects of Lead Company Security Rating Changes on Project Partner Common Stock Prices:  The Case of Seabrook Station."  (1989)  (with Hassan Tehranian).

 

"Informational Asymmetries, Moral Hazard and the Determination of Foreign Exchange Rates."  Washington State University, Dept. of Economics Working Paper Series 1083-2.

 

“The Effects of Central Bank Discount Rate Announcements on Exchange Rate Volatility,”  presented at First International Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Brussels (June 1991)

 

“Time-Dependent Variance in the Foreign Exchange Market,” presented at Euro/Tims Joint International Conference, Helsinki, Finland (June 1992)

 

“German Banks and German Corporate Governance,” presented at 1993 Tokyo Club Meetings, Tokyo, Japan.  (with Heidemarie C. Sherman)

 

“The Norwegian Banking Crises and Bank Equity Returns,”  1993 European Finance Association Meetings, Copenhagen, Denmark.  (with Dag Michalsen)

 “The Stakeholder Role of German Banks in German Firms,” presented at the International Workshop on the Market for Corporate Control, Tilburg, The Netherlands, September 1993.  (with Heidemarie Sherman)

 

 “Investor Behavior and the Norwegian Banking Crisis: Prediction and Contagion Effects,” 1993 Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia.  (with Dag Michalsen)

 

“European Union Equity Markets and the 1992-93 ERM Crisis,”  presented at the 1994 International Trade and Finance Association Fourth International Conference, Reading, England.  (with Ahmad Etebari)

 

“Currency Market Reactions to Bundesbank interest Rate Policies During the 1992-93 ERM Crisis: What Happened?” presented at the 1994 Decision Sciences Institute Meetings, Honolulu, Hawaii. (with Hassan Tehranian)

 

The Effects of the Norwegian Banking Crisis on Bank and Non Bank Stocks, presented at the 31st Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, May, 1995.

 

“The Effects of Bundesbank Discount and Lombard Rate Changes on German Bank Stocks,” presented at the 1994 European Financial Management Meetings,  Maastricht, Netherlands and at the European Finance Association Meetings, Milan, Italy, 1995. (with Hassan Tehranian)

 

“Going Public: A Corporate Governance Perspective,” presented at the Max Planck Institutute Conference on Comparative Corporate Governance, Hamburg, Germany, May 1997. (with Wolfgang Bessler and Heidemaire Sherman)

 

"State-Assisted Financing Programs:  Policies and Strategies for New Hampshire," mimeo, March, 1998. (with Ross Gittell)

 

"The Listing of German Firms on the New York Stock Exchange: A Corporate Governance Perspective," presented at the 1998 Tokyo Club Meetings, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., October, 1998 and at 1999 German Banking and Finance Conference, Karslruhe, Germany.

 

“Firm Size, Employees and Profitability in U.S. Manufacturing Industries,” Working paper, UNH Whittemore School, September 2003.

 

“Firm Size, Employees and Profitability in U.S. Manufacturing Industries,” presented at the 2003 Multinational Finance Association Conference, July 2003, Montreal.

 

“Post Deregulation Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry: Value Creation or Value Destruction?” Financial Management International Conference, June 2004.  (with John Becker-Blease and Lawrence Goldberg)

 

 

 

BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, FUNDED RESEARCH REPORTS AND CASES

 

 

Corporate Investment and Financial Management,  American Management Association, Watertown, MA. (1990).

 

International Financial Management, American Management Association, Watertown, MA. (1992).

 

Wealth Creation in Eastern Europe: Financial Management Issues and Strategies, The Haworth Press, New York (1992) co editor with Ike Mathur.

 

Financial Risk Management, American Management Association, Watertown, MA (1993), revised (1999)

 

Corporate Finance: Theories and Policies, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA (1995)

 

Pfeiffer Vacuum: Strategic Financial Management in Global Financial Markets, Case study, March, 2000

 

Corporate Governance: A Managerial Perspective, American Management Association, Watertown, MA, 2001.

 

Firm Size, Employees and Profitability: A Manufacturing Industry Specific Inquiry, H.B. Services Partners, L.L.C., May, 2002.

 

A Blueprint for Corporate Governance, AMACOM Books, American Management Association, 2003.

 

 

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