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Catalin Stefanescu Professorial Lecturer Department of Finance and Real Estate

Degrees
PhD in Business Administration, Indiana University.
M.S. in Economics (International Finance and Econometrics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in Economics, University of Tennessee
B.S. in Business Administration (Finance and Banking), Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

Bio
Catalin Stefanescu is a Professorial Lecturer in the Finance and Real Estate Department at the Kogod School of Business. He is the faculty director of the MS in Finance and MS in Real Estate programs.
He earned a M.S. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD in Business Economics and Finance from Indiana University. His primary research interests are in the areas of international corporate finance and capital markets, and more recently in the economics of blockchain and digital tokens. During his career, Catalin taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses such as Business Finance, International Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Derivatives and Survey of Blockchain. He is an advisor to the American Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Association and a review editor of Frontiers in Blockchain.
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • FIN-671 Advanced Financial Management

Summer 2024

  • FIN-060 Foundations of Finance

  • FIN-365 Business Finance

  • FIN-464 Financial Markets&Institution

Fall 2024

  • CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: Responsible Financial Citizens

  • FIN-465 Derivative Securities

  • FIN-605 Managerial Econ/Corp Strategy

  • FIN-674 Derivatives & Risk Management