Daniel Smith

Associate Professor of Finance

Faculty of Business Administration

Simon Fraser University

8888 University Drive

Burnaby BC V5A 1S6 Canada

Office: West Mall Center 3339 (Burnaby)

            Segal 3325 (Downtown)

Phone: (778) 782-4675 (Burnaby)

            (778) 782-7714

Fax:     (778) 782-4920

Email: drsmith@sfu.ca

Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~drsmith/

My SSRN Author’s Website

2007-2008 Finance Seminar Series

 

You can download my CV as a pdf.

Education:

*   Ph.D. (University of British Columbia) 2002

*    M.Bus. (Queensland University of Technology) 1999

*    B.Bus.(Hons) (Queensland University of Technology) 1996

 

Publications:

*    "Evaluating Value-at-Risk models via Quantile Regression", 2009 Forthcoming, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (with  Wagner Gaglianone, Luiz Renato Lima, and Oliver Linton)

*    "The Level and Quality of Value-at-Risk Disclosure by Commercial Banks", 2009 Forthcoming, Journal of Banking and Finance (with Christophe Pérignon).

*     "Diversification and Value-at-Risk," 2009 Forthcoming, Journal of Banking and Finance (with Christophe Pérignon).

*    "Institutional Ownership, Volatility and Dividends," 2009 , Journal of Banking and Finance, 33, 627-639 (with Amir Rubin).

*   "Asymmetry in Stochastic Volatility Models: Threshold or Correlation", 2009 , Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 13, Article 1.

*    "A New Approach to Comparing VaR Estimation Methods", 2008, Journal of Derivatives, 15, 54-66 (with Christophe Pérignon).

*   "The Distribution of the Sample Minimum-Variance Frontier," 2008, Management Science, 54, 1364-1380 (with Raymond Kan).

*    "Evaluating Specification Tests for Markov-Switching Time Series Models," 2008, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 62, 629-652.

*    "Testing for Structural Breaks in GARCH Models," 2008, Applied Financial Economics, 18, 845-862.

*    "An Empirical Investigation of the Level Effect in Australian Interest Rates", 2008, Australian Journal of Management, 33, 31-45 (with Philip Gray).

*    "Business Cycle Dynamics with Duration Dependence and Leading Indicators,"  2007, Journal of Macroeconomics, 29, 855-875 (with Allan Layton).

*   "Yield-Factor Volatility Models," 2007, Journal of Banking and Finance, 31, 3125-3144 (with Christophe Pérignon).

*    "Comparing Probability Forecasts in Markov Regime Switching Business Cycle Models," 2007, Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis, 3, 79-98 (with Allan Layton).

*    "Why Common Factors in International Bond Returns Are Not So Common," 2007, Journal of International Money and Finance, 26, 284-304 (with Christophe Pérignon and Christophe Villa).

*    "Conditional Coskewness and Asset Pricing,” 2007, Journal of Empirical Finance, 14: 91-119.

*    "Markov-Switching and Stochastic Volatility in Short-Term Interest Rates," 2002, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 20: 183-197.

*    "A Further Note on the Three Phases of the US Business Cycle," 2000, Applied Economics, 32: 1133-1143 (with Allan Layton).

 

Working Papers:

*    Risk and Return in Stochastic Volatility Models: Volatility Feedback Matters! 

*    Asset Allocation with Stochastic Volatility

*    Conditional Backtesting of Value-at-Risk Models

*   Alternative Explanations of the Volatility Trend: Are They Really That Different? (with Amir Rubin)

*    A Stochastic Volatility Model with Fat Tails, Skewness and Leverage Effects

*    Testing for Equal Dynamic Conditional Correlations

*    The Stochastic Equicorrelation Model

 

Work In Progress:

*    Standard Errors for Regressions using Overlapping Observations (with Marco Rossi and Tim Simin)

*    Simulated Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Continuous-Time Stochastic Volatility Models

*    Does Risk Aversion Vary Over the Business Cycle? (with Robert Whitelaw)

 

Teaching:

*    Bus418 International Financial Management     

*    Bus810 Fixed Income Security Analysis (MBA)  

*    Bus865 Market Risk Management (MA)  

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