Professor Frank Skinner

Qualifications

• PhD (Toronto)
• MBA (Toronto)
• B. Com (MUN)

Personal Biography

Professor Frank S. Skinner completed a PhD and a MBA in Finance from the University of Toronto and a B. Com in Finance from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. He has held full time appointments in Canada (York University, Dalhousie University), in the US (New York University), and the UK (University of Reading and the University of Surrey). He has published books and articles in leading academic and practitioner journals on topics related to interest and credit risk including The Journal of Banking and Finance, Area, The Journal of Financial Research and the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. Recent PhD students include Yanli Cheng (2012): Mortgage Backed Securities and Ahmed Abdellatif (2009): Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Asymmetric Information.

Research Overview

Professor Skinner’s research interest centres around fixed interest securities, broadly defined. This means Frank can be working on topics of valuation (Contingent Capital Securities is a recent example) investment strategies (such as active vs. passive strategies) and financial contracting (such as the use of bond covenant clauses). Moreover Frank also deals with issues regarding credit risk such as the risk of bank failure and issuers regarding hedging such as hedging currencies subject to credit risk. Many of Professor Skinner’s working papers can be downloaded from the FEN section of the SSRN.

 

Postgraduate Programmes

Module convenor

• Capital Markets and Security Valuation
• Business Finance Workshop

Module contributor

• MSc Dissertation

• Dept Convenor, CFA University Recognition Programme
• REF Coordinator

• Editor, Special Issue on Recent Developments in the Currency Markets, International Review of Financial Analysis
• Subject Editor, Risk Management, International Review of Financial Analysis
• Advisory Board Member, Investment Management and Financial Innovations
• Vice President (membership) Multinational Finance Society