Emma Rasiel

Dr. Rasiel completed her PhD in finance at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, in 2003. She also received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Oxford University. Before beginning her PhD program at Fuqua, Dr Rasiel was an Executive Director in the London office of Goldman Sachs, a leading investment bank, where she traded bond options.

Dr. Rasiel is the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Economics Department at Duke University, and also the Director of the Financial Education Partnership (FEP).

Recent Research
A Life-Cycle Cost of Capital Model for Biopharmaceutical R&D (2005) Grabowski and Rasiel.
Hedging with a Smile: A Behavioral Explanation for the Volatility Put Skew (2003) Rasiel.

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329H Social Sciences
(919) 660-1837
emma.rasiel@duke.edu
Tues: 1:30 - 3:30
Fri: 1:30 - 3:30

 

Selected Publications
The Performance of Alternative Valuation Models in the OTC Currency Options Market (2003) Bollen and Rasiel, Journal of International Money and Finance.

Can Prospect Theory Explain Risk-Seeking Behavior by Terminally Ill Patients? (2005) Rasiel, Weinfurt & Schulman Medical Decision Making.

A Portfolio Model of Drug Development for Tuberculosis (2006) Glickman, Rasiel, Dukes Hamilton, Kubataev, & Schulman, Science.

Course Descriptions
Econ 55D - Intermediate Economics I Fall 2005
Econ 166 - Global Capital Markets Fall 2005
Econ 157 - Investments Spring 2006

 

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