Faculty Profile

Doron Avramov Associate Professor Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 4423 Van Munching Hall Phone: 301-405-0400 E-mail: davramov@rhsmith.umd.edu Personal Web site

Professor Avramov's research interests focus on asset pricing. He has researched topics such as predicting stock returns, deriving and implementing asset-pricing tests, understanding financial market anomalies, investing in mutual funds and hedge funds, financial econometrics, and stock-return autocorrelation, volatility, and liquidity. His work has been published in Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Analyst Journal, Journal of Business, and Journal of Finance. Prior to pursuing his academic career, Professor Avramov served as an investment banker in Israel, leading fixed income and equity offerings, both in the private and public sectors.