Office Address: 112C
Office Phone: 610-519-7395 (Finance Departmental Office will help you contact Professor Lamm-Tennant)
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Starting Date at Villanova University: 1989
Degrees Earned: B.B.A., 1974, M.B.A., 1977, St. Mary's University; Ph.D., 1983, University of Texas.
Areas of Specialization: Financial Risk Management, Financial Issues in Insurance, Asset/Liability Management, Capital Structure, Asset Allocation.
Courses Taught - Currently On Leave 1997-99
Most Recent Research Publications
"International Insurance Cycles: Rational Expectations/Institutional Intervention" (with M. Weiss, forthcoming in Journal of Risk and Insurance, (1996).
"Considerations of Cost Trade-Offs In Insurance Solvency Surveillance Policy" (with L. Starks and L. Stokes), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 20: 835-852, (1996).
"Capital Structure and Cost of Equity Capital in the Property-Liability Insurance" (with J. D. Cummins), Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Volume 15: 187-201, (1994).
"Incentives for Discretionary Accounting Practices: Ownership Structure, Earnings, Size and Taxation" (with T. Rollins), Journal of Risk and Insurance. Volume 61: 476-491, (1994).
"Stock versus Mutual Ownership Structures: The Risk Implications" (with L. Starks), Journal of Business, Volume 66: 29-46, (1993).