International finance professor Robert Connolly is an award-winning teacher and researcher whose interests include international finance, international trade and financial markets.
His current work focuses on the impact of stock market uncertainty on co-movement of stock and bond returns across the globe, information vs. herding as explanations of cross-market equity return co-movement, and explanations and models of asset return and trading volume persistence in world capital markets. Along with a former PhD student, his work won the Best Investments Paper award at the Global Finance Conference in 2000.
Dr. Connolly and two colleagues in the UNC-Chapel Hill Economics Department received funding from The Sloan Foundation for a joint research project on the economics and finances of the U.S. textile and apparel industries. Dr. Connolly has been named a Senior Research Fellow of the UNC-Chapel Center for the Study of the American South, where he helps to direct a major research effort focused on the impact of globalization on industry in the U.S. South.
Dr. Connolly has taught in professional finance programs since 1988. He has led seminars in financial management for HR executives, real options analysis for Monsanto and Novartis, international finance and strategy for executives at Allergan, Inc., and conducted the finance section of the Burroughs-Wellcome Management Institute for four years. He also has led seminars on capital markets for the American Mortgage Bankers Association, the American Financial Services Academy and the Bank Administration Institute.
He received his PhD, MA and BA from the University of Maryland. |
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Recent Media Mentions |
2009
- The PGA Tour Network interviewed finance professor Dick Rendleman about his research with Bob Connolly on skill and luck in golf for the radio show "Making the Turn."
- The Wall Street Journal featured a study by finance professors Bob Connolly and Dick Rendleman, who developed a statistical model to account for the role that luck plays in professional golf, in "Winning a Major May Just Be a Matter of Luck."
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- The Wall Street Journal featured a study by finance professors Bob Connolly and Dick Rendleman in "Grouped with Tiger? Good Luck …" (April 10)
2008
- "The Lou Dobbs Show" featured finance professor Bob Connolly about the care package program he leads for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. (June 6)
2006
- Bob Connolly, an international finance and economics professor, is spearheading an initiative to send care packages to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. An editorial praising the initiative appeared in The Chapel Hill News (May 30), and WCHL-News interviewed Connolly. Read UNC's press release for more information.
2005
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