Academic Advisors
| Louis K.C. Chan,
Ph.D.
Academic Advisor Tel: (312) 460-2443 Fax: (312) 220-9241 |
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Year Started at LSV: 2000
LSV Responsibilities:
Research
Experience:
Professor of Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1988-present
Education:
Ph.D. University of Rochester, Finance and Applied
Economics (1984 & 1982)
B.S. University of Hawaii, Business Administration
(1979)
Dr. Chan teaches courses in multinational business and
investments. Research focuses on empirical analysis of
the behavior of stock returns; the impact of
institutional equity trading; comparative analysis of
stock market structures; risk and portfolio optimization.
His work has been published in major academic journals
such as the Journal of Finance, Financial Analysts
Journal, and the Review of Financial Studies. He was
awarded the Graham and Dodd Scroll of Excellence from the
Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)
in 2001 and the American Association of Individual
Investors Award in 1991. He also served as Associate
Editor, Journal of Financial Research from
1999-2002.
| Dan Givoly, Ph.D.
Academic Advisor Tel: (312) 460-2443 Fax: (312) 220-9241 |
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Year Started at LSV: 2005
LSV Responsibilities:
Research
Experience:
Accounting Department Chair
Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting
SMEAL College of Business
Pennsylvania State University
2002-present
Education:
Ph.D. New York University
M.B.A. Tel-Aviv University
B.A. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
CPA, Israel
Dr. Givoly is the Chair of the Accounting Department and
teaches accounting courses at Penn State University. His
research focuses on financial reporting and disclosures,
effects of financial information on capital markets,
valuation and analysts forecasts of earnings. Prior to
joining Penn State, Professor Givoly taught at the
University of California at Irvine, Columbia University,
Northwestern University and Tel-Aviv University. He
served as the Chairman of the Financial Standards
Accounting Board in Israel (1996-99) and is a Certified
Public Accountant (Israel). Professor Givoly is a member
of the American Accounting Association, American Finance
Association, and The Institute of Public Accounting –
Israel.
His work has been published in major academic journals
such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics,
and he serves as a reviewer for The Accounting Review,
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Business,
Journal of Accounting Research and the
Contemporary Accounting Journal.
| Jason Karceski,
Ph.D.
Academic Advisor Tel: (312) 460-2443 Fax: (312) 220-9241 |
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Year Started at LSV: 2007
LSV Responsibilities:
Research
Experience:
Associate Professor of Finance
University of Florida
1997-present
Education:
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Finance (1997)
MBA, University of North Florida (1992)
B.S., California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering (1990)
Dr. Karceski's research focuses on equity investments, portfolio optimization, the behavior
of equity analysts, mutual funds, and bank mergers. He has taught courses to undergraduate,
masters, and doctoral students on equity markets, the institutional money management business,
and asset pricing theory.
Dr. Karceski's work has been published in all of the top-tier finance journals including the
Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies,
as well as practitioner-oriented journals such as Financial Analysts Journal. He has also won a
number of teaching awards at the University of Florida. His research has been recognized with the Barclays
Global Investors Best Paper Award at the 2000 European Finance Association Meetings as well as with
the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence from the Association for Investment Management and Research
(AIMR) in 2000.