Dr. Rodolfo Apreda

Director of the Ph D Program in Finance,
and Director of the Center for the Study of Private and Public
Governance
E-mail address: ra@cema.edu.ar
Phone number: (54-11) 6314-3000

Professor Rodolfo Apreda holds a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Buenos Aires,1998), a Master Degree in Political Science (UCEMA, 2006),and both Licenciate Diplomas in Economics (University of Buenos Aires, 1983) and Mathematics (Caece University, 1978). He currently teaches courses in the Master and Ph D. Programs at the University of Cema, mainly in Capital Markets, Financial Assets Valuation and Corporate Governance.

In June 2000, he was appointed as Visiting Fellow at the Salomon Center of the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he did research in January-March 2001. In July 2001, Dr. Apreda was appointed as Visiting Scholar at the Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware, where he did research in December-March 2002.

His main fields of interest are the following: Corporate and Public Governance, Asymmetric Information, and Transactional Algebras.

Dr. Apreda has been presenting papers for the last years in international congresses held by the Eastern Finance Association, USA, (1998, 1999, 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007); the Midwest Finance Association, USA(2001 and 2004); the Missouri Economic Association, USA (2001); the Australian Financial Management Association (1998, 2000); the University of Sheffield, UK, (1999); the Argentine Economic Association (1997,1998, 2000, 2003 and 2006); the Latin American Economic Associations(1999). He also served, in some of them, as discussant and Chair Session.

Professor Apreda regularly contributes to learned journals. His last papers were published by the Journal of Multinational Finance Management, the Journal of Applied Economics, Corporate Ownership and Control, Portfolio Management and Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance: International Review. He wrote nine books in Spanish about Financial Economics and Corporate Governance issues. His last book in Spanish was published by La Ley in 2005 (Capital Markets, Portfolio Management and Corporate Governance). He has written two books in English, the first one on "Differential Rates and Residual Information Sets, and Transactional Algebras", published in 2006 by Nova Science, New York. His second book, "Public Governance: A Blueprint for Political Action and Better Government", will be published in December 2007, also by Nova Science, New York.