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Senior Tenjarla Wins Tulane Energy Competition

November 18th, 2009 · Filed under: Honors & Awards · Top Stories

Posted by Rob Meyer

Aneal Tenjarla, a finance senior, won the Tulane Energy Trading Competition Nov. 14 in New Orleans, triumphing over 28 students from six universities, many from MBA programs, in the competition’s final round. 
Tenjarla said the contest was a great opportunity to learn trading strategy from industry insiders in a realistic environment that felt like an energy trading [...]

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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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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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