Robert Kolb

About

Kolb holds two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (philosophy 1974, finance 1978) and has been a finance professor at five universities. He is currently a professor of finance at Loyola University Chicago.

Kolb’s recent writings include Futures, Options, and Swaps 5e, and Understanding Futures Markets 6e, both co-authored with James A. Overdahl. Recent edited volumes are: Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future, Sovereign Debt: From Safety to Default, and Financial Contagion: The Viral Threat to the Wealth of Nations, both published by Wiley. Kolb’s most recent books are The Financial Crisis of Our Time, (2011), and Too Much Is Not Enough: Incentives in Executive Compensation (2012), both published by Oxford University Press and both selected for the Financial Management Association’s Survey and Synthesis Series. His most recent book project is, The Natural Gas Revolution: Markets, Society, and the World, published by Pearson/Financial Times in 2013.

Degrees

PhD, Finance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978

PhD, Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974

MA, University of Georgia, 1971

BA, University of Georgia, 1971

Research Interests

Derivative Markets

Risk Management and Distributive Justice

Finance

Professional & Community Affiliations

American Finance Association

Financial Management Association

Society for Business Ethics

International Association for Business and Society

Global Association of Risk Professionals

Professional Risk Managers'' International Association

Courses Taught

Topics in Derivative Securities

Enterprise Risk Management