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Paul Thistle is Professor and Chair of Finance at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He earned his B.B.A. from the University of Portland and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the Department, he taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Alabama and Western Michigan University. During 1990-1991 he was a Heubner Post-Doctoral Fellow in Insurance at the Wharton School. He teaches the courses in insurance and risk management and corporate risk management as well as other courses in finance.
His research interests are primarily in insurance economics and corporate finance. His current projects focus on liability insurance and on CEO compensation. He has published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Journal of Business, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Review of Economics and Statistics and other journals.
Fall 2009
Office Hours: 3:45-5:00 TR and by appointment
Courses: FIN 321 Corporate Risk Mangement |
| Selected Research |
| Negligence, Ignorance and the Demand for Liability Insurance, with V. Bajtelsmit, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, forthcoming |
| Detours and Frolics on the Internet: Employer Liability and Management Control of Cybertorts, with R. Aalberts and D. Hames, Journal of Business Research, (December 2009) 62:1335-1341. |
| CEO Tenure, the Risk of Termination and Firm Value, with J. Brookman, Journal of Corporate Finance, (June 2009) 15: 1335-1341 |
| The Reasonable Person Negligence Standard and Liability Insurance, with V. Bajtelsmit, Journal of Risk and Insurance, (December 2008), 75:815-823. |
| Adverse Selection with Frequency and Severity Risk: Alternative Risk Sharing Provisions, with J. Ligon, Journal of Risk and Insurance, (December 2008), 75: 825-846 |
| More publications and working papers, HERE |
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