Rossen Trendafilov

I am Assistant Professor of Finance at St. Thomas Aquinas College where I teach Principles of Managerial Finance, Principles of Corporate Finance, Corporate Finance, Online Corporate Finance, Data Analysis and Principles of Microeconomics.

As an instructor for the past 7 years I have developed a teaching philosophy that is based on two principles - understanding the needs of my student and the application of economics ideas to everyday life as well as to world events.

My research interests are in the fields of:

• Behavioral Economics
• Money and Banking
• Macroeconomics
• Financial Economics
• Financial Econometrics
• Market Microstructure
• Applied Microeconomics
• Time Series Analysis
• Data Mining
• Fourier Series Analysis
• Wavelet Analysis
• Fractal Analysis

My current research involves applications of behavioral theory in portfolio selection and wealth allocation. Further I investigate the effects of agent behavior in the frame of real business cycle models. I also continuously work on the detection and application of information regimes in high frequency data and the impact of information regimes on market microstructure models.

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, Fordham University, Spring 2012
• Master of Arts, Economics, Fordham University, Spring 2009
• Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Spring 2004

Publications

• "The Importance of Remittances in Frontier Markets", with Helena Glebocki and Erick Rengifo, forthcoming in Handbook of Frontier Markets.
• "High Frequency Trading under Information Regimes", with Erick Rengifo, The Handbook of High Frequency Trading, February 18, 2015.
• "Behavioral Portfolio Theory and Investment Management" , with Erick Rengifo and Emanuela Trifan, chapter 23 in Investor Behavior - The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing, February 10, 2014
• "Geology versus Agglomeration: Bedrock Depth and the Formation of the Manhattan Skyline, 1890-1915", Jason Barr, Troy Tassier, and Rossen Trendafilov, Journal of Economic History, 71(4), 2011, pp. 1060-1077.