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Bruce G. Resnick

Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Banking and Finance
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BIOGRAPHY

Bruce G. Resnick joined the Wake Forest University faculty in August 1995. He taught in the School of Business until retiring in 2018. Dr. Resnick received a DBA in finance from Indiana University, an MBA from the University of Colorado, and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Prior to joining Wake Forest, he taught at Indiana University for 10 years, the University of Minnesota for five years, and California State University, Chico for two years. He has served as a visiting professor at Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland. Additionally, he served as the Indiana University Resident Director at the Center for European Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He also served as an external examiner to the Business Administration Department of Singapore Polytechnic.

Dr. Resnick taught MBA and undergraduate courses in the areas of investments, portfolio management, and international financial management. His research interests include market efficiency studies and empirical tests of asset pricing models. A major interest has been the optimal design of internationally diversified portfolios constructed to control for parameter uncertainty and exchange rate risk. Most recently, he has focused on studying the information content contained in Eurocurrency interest rates and yield spread comparisons of domestic and international bonds. His research articles have been published in most of the major journals in finance. His research has been widely cited by other researchers and textbook authors. He served for many years as an associate editor for the Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, the Journal of Economics and Business, and the Journal of Financial Research.

Dr. Resnick is a co-author of a graduate level textbook in its ninth edition titled International Financial Management. The text has been translated into several languages.