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Ronn Receives Best Paper Award

September 24th, 2008 · Filed under: Faculty News · Honors & Awards · Research

Posted by Behnaz Abolmaali

Finance Professor Ehud Ronn returned from the 2008 Financial Services Institute Symposium, held Sept. 12 at St. John’s University, with the Best Paper Award. The report he presented, “A Simple Model for Time-Varying Expected Returns on the S&P 500 Index,” was co-authored with James Doran of Florida State University and Robert Goldberg of Adelphi University.

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Top Companies, Faculty Showcase Executive Education at AT&T Open House

September 19th, 2008 · Filed under: Events · Executive Education

Posted by Tracy Mueller

Texas Executive Education hosted an open house at the new AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center Sept. 9. The event showcased the depth of Texas Executive Education’s capabilities and resources to an enthusiastic audience of current and future clients.
A forum on best practices in talent management kicked off the event.

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Ronn in Forbes: Between Barack and a Hard Place

September 1st, 2008 · Filed under: McCombs in the Media · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Rob Meyer

Forbes, August 11, 2008

The reason oil prices are so high? The market is betting on an Obama win. How’s that? Ehud Ronn, an economist and director of the Center for Energy Finance Education & Research at the University of Texas, says the kink in futures prices, a condition known as contango, fits precisely with the [...]

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Ronn Breaks Down Gas Prices News 8 Austin, July 2, 2008

July 18th, 2008 · Filed under: McCombs in the Media

Posted by Rob Meyer

Finance Professor Ehud Ronn was recently interviewed by News 8 Austin about where your money goes when you pay at the pump. It is more complicated than simply blaming the oil companies, Ronn said. “They are benefiting from prices being high but they have no ability to affect those prices,” he said.
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