Professor Manuel Tarrazo, PhD, teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in corporate finance and investment
management. His research focuses primarily in the application of
conventional and emerging methodologies (fuzzy sets, approximate
equations, and hybrid "words-plus-numbers" methods) to portfolio
optimization, investments, and corporate financial planning. He has
published research in the following journals (alphabetical):
Advances in Financial Education, Advances in Financial Planning
and Forecasting, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio
Management, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Financial Services
Review, Financial Technology, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision
Making, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, The
International Journal of Finance, International Journal of
Business, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Journal of
Financial Education, Midwest Review of Finance and Insurance,
Research in Finance, Research Papers in Management and Business,
Alta Dirección, The European Journal of Operational Research, The
International Journal of Business Research. In addition,
Professor Tarrazo has made thirty-eight professional presentations,
earning two "Best Study in Finance" and one "Best Interdisciplinary
Study" awards. His is also the author of the research monograph
"Practical Applications of Approximate Equations in Finance and
Economics," Quorum Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, January
2001; and co-authored a textbook,
Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling
for Portfolio Management," Kendall/Hunt, 1996. His chapter
entitled "Intervals in Finance and Economics: Bridge between Words
and Numbers, Language of Strategy" appears in the
Handbook of
Granular Computing (Edited by Witold Pedrycz, Andrzej Skowron,
and Vladik Kreinovich), John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Professor Tarrazo is a native from Spain, where he obtained a
Licenciatura at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He worked as
a financial manager before completing his doctoral education at the
State University of New York at Albany, N.Y. He has been awarded
one "Outstanding Teaching" and two "Outstanding Research" School of
Business and Management Awards.
Awards
· Outstanding Research Award. School of
Business. Spring 2009.
· Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award: "Identifying Securities to
Buy: The Heuristic ri/stdi." 2006 Meeting of the Decision Sciences
Institute.
· Outstanding Teaching Award. School of Business. Spring
2005.
· Best Paper Award in Finance: "Teaching What We Know about Asset
Allocation." 2003 Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences
Institute.
· Outstanding Research Award. School of Business. Spring
1998.
· Best Paper Award in Finance: "Is Finance a Paper Tiger?" 1997
Meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance.
