Editor-in-Chief

Stanley Kon, Ph.D.

Professor Kon has been a principal, executive vice-president, director of research and co-director of the Investment Management Group at Smith Breeden Associates, Inc., an institutional investment management company from 1977-2012. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan, where he served as chairman of the Finance Department, director of the J. Ira Harris Center for the Study of Corporate Finance and a member of the advisory board for the Mitsui Life Financial Research Center. Professor Kon has also served on the faculties of New York University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. From 2012-2013, he was the J. B. Fuqua Visiting Professor of Finance at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he taught courses in fixed income securities and risk management. From 2009-2012, he was a Visiting Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business where he received the 2012 Executive MBA outstanding teacher award.

In industry, he has served on several bank and holding company boards (from 1985 to 2007) and as a consultant to government, business and financial institutions, including the US Department of Labor, Resolution Trust Corporation, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Catalyst Group, The Commodity Exchange and Chase Econometric Associates. In addition, Professor Kon has written extensively in the areas of investment management, performance measurement, asset pricing, statistical models of stock returns and mortgage-backed securities. He has published articles in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Empirical Finance, The Journal of Fixed Income, and Financial Analysts Journal. 

He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Lowell Technological Institute, his M.B.A. in Finance and Economics from St. John's University, and his Ph.D. in Finance from the State University of New York at Buffalo.