Manuel Tarrazo

Professor of Finance

Tel: 415-422-2583
Fax: 415-422-2502
TDD: 415-422-6439
tarrazom@usfca.edu

University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045 U.S.A.

• Ph.D., Economics and Finance, State University of New York at Albany, 1993
• MBA, Economics, State University of New York at Albany, 1985
• LICENCIADO, 5 year program in Economics with Business and Finance, Universidad of Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 1981

• BA305: Financial Management

• At the University of San Francisco since 1994
• Adjunct Professor, Santa Clara University
• Adjunct Professor, State University of New York at Albany

• Investments Analysis and Portfolio Management
• Corporate Finance and Financial Planning
• Financial Decision Modeling
• Quantitative Methods

• "MATLAB: Software answers needs of users involved in numerical and symbolic analysis." OR/MS Today. Volume 33, Number 3. June 2006.
• "Full Dimensional Immunization." Journal of Applied Business and Economics, March, 2005.
• "Schopenhauer's Prolegomenon to Fuzzy Sets." Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making 3(3): 227-254, September 2004.
• "Teaching What We Know about Asset Allocation." Advances in Financial Education,Vol. 2, Spring 2004, 77-103. With W. L. Murray.
• "Mathematical Programming and Portfolio Optimizations: A Clarification." Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, 2000, Vol. 9, 31-55.
• "Financial Planning, Expectations and Fuzzy Sets."Co-author Luis Gutierrez.  Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 126, No. 1, August 2000, 89-105.
• Practical Applications of Approximate Equations in Finance and Economics. Quorum Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External Service & Assignments

• Editorial Board member of "Technological Horizons in Education." T.H.E. Journal, 1995-present.
• Faculty Associate of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA), University of San Francisco.