Muscarella Elected FMA President
Muscarella Elected FMA President
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 24, 2005)—Chris Muscarella, professor of finance and MBA faculty director at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, has been elected to a one-year term as president of the Financial Management Association International (FMA).
Established in 1970, FMA develops and disseminates knowledge about financial decision-making to a membership community that includes more than 3,300 academics and practitioners and more than 4,000 students around the world.
FMA strives to broaden the common interests between its members, provide opportunities for professional interaction, promote the development and understanding of basic and applied research and of sound financial practice, and enhance the quality of education in finance. Through its flagship publications—Financial Management, The Journal of Applied Finance, and the E-Journal, FMA Online—FMA also serves as a source of new research and keeps members current on the latest advances in financial practice and thinking. The association's web site is www.fma.org.
Muscarella’s teaching interests center on corporate finance and he has won multiple excellence-in-teaching awards at Smeal. His current research interests include underpricing of initial public offerings, corporate control and limited partnerships, and the value of patents. Muscarella has published numerous research articles including papers in The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Financial Research, The Financial Review, The European Finance Review and The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.
Prior to coming to Penn State, Muscarella held an appointment as a senior financial economist with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., where he worked on insider trading cases and public policy issues.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
