Cara M. Marshall, Ph.D.

 

Director of Risk Management Graduate Program
Tenured Lecturer
Queens College of the City University of New York
Cara.Marshall@qc.cuny.edu

 

Ph.D.,  Financial Economics, Fordham University, September 2008. 
MBA, Quantitative Analysis, St. John's University, 2002
BS, Marketing and Computer Information Science, Oswego State University, 1999

Cara Marshall is a tenured Lecturer at Queens College of the City University of New York and the Director of Queens College’s Graduate Program in Risk Management.  Dr. Marshall has also worked as a consultant (www.FinTechTrainingSolutions) and conducted training at leading investment banks, asset management firms, hedge funds, and government agencies.  Specifically, Cara has trained employees at: Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Barclays, Lazard, Bank of China, Prudential, Fidelity, RBC, FHFA, and U.S. Department of the Treasury, among others. 


Curriculum Vitae: pdf
Dissertation: Volatility Trading: Hedge Funds and the Search for Alpha (New Challenges to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis)

Research Interests: Risk Management, Financial Engineering, Derivatives, Behavioral Finance, FinTech including programming in VBA and Python


Classes I have Taught

RM701, Introduction to Enterprise Risk Management
RM704, Risk Measurement
RM709, Portfolio Management
RM711, Applied Financial Analysis (Financial Modeling with VBA).
RM792, Python for Financial Applications
RM790, Capstone Course for Risk Management Graduate Program

ECON715: Corporate Finance (graduate)
BUS241: Corporate Finance (undergraduate)
CSCI018 (now CSCI048): Computing for Business (undergraduate)

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Published Work

Books:

Editor (with Tanya Beder) of Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession.  Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Journal Articles:

Isolating the systematic and unsystematic components of a single stock's (or portfolio's) standard deviation,” Applied Economics, Fall 2014.

“Volatility-Based Pairs Trading: Empirical evidence from U.S. options markets” Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, Fall 2013.

“Dispersion trading: Empirical evidence from U.S. options markets,” Global Finance Journal 2009, 20(3), 289-301.

"Replication of Vinod & Morey’s (2002) JOI Article and Porting to Excel" Indian Journal of Economics & Business Volume 4 no: 2 (December 2005).  The original work was titled, "Estimation Risk in Morningstar Fund Ratings," H.D. Vinod and Mathew R. Morey, Journal of Investing Vol. 11 (4), 2002, 67-75.

Chapters in Books:

“Commodity Market”, a contribution (with Helen Lu) to Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a ProfessionPublished by Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.  Editors: Cara M. Marshall and Tanya Beder.

“Financial Engineering and Macroeconomic Innovation”, a contribution (with John O’Connell) to Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a ProfessionPublished by Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.  Editors: Cara M. Marshall and Tanya Beder.

“Monte Carlo Simulation in the Pricing of Derivatives”, a contribution to Financial Derivatives: Pricing and Risk Management.  Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.  Editors: Robert W. Kolb and James A. Overdahl.

“The Use of Derivatives in Financial Engineering: Hedge Fund Applications”, a contribution (with John F. Marshall) to Financial Derivatives: Pricing and Risk Management.  Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.  Editors: Robert W. Kolb and James A. Overdahl


Working Papers

“Portfolio Theory and Investment Management: A Practitioner’s Guide” working paper.

“Volatility Trading: Hedge Funds and the Search for Alpha” presented at 34th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston (March, 2008).
 

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Note: Publications are available for download via RePEc.  My RePEc page is here: http://authors.repec.org/pro/pma974/.

 

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