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.

Spring 2013
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Countries Exposure to Bank Failure

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Why Banks Get Bailed Out I: "Discretion and Financial Regulation" (Interfluidity - S.R. Waldman) "Given the discretion to do so, financial regulators will always do the wrong thing."