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Prof. Rasa Karapandza, PhD

Education and Academic positions

2024 – present Dean of EBS Buisness School
2019 – 2024 Vice Dean Education at EBS Business School
2018 – present Visiting professor at New York University
2015 – present Academic Director of Master in Finance, EBS Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany
2014 – present Professor of Finance, EBS Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany
2009-14 Assistant Professor of Finance, EBS Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany
2009 PhD in Economics and Finance from Graduate School of Economic Barcelona, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (summa cum laude)
2008 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics, New York University, USA
2006 Visiting Scholar at the HAAS School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA
2004 M.Sc. in Economic and Finance from University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2002 B.Sc. in Astrophysics from University of Belgrade, Department of Mathematics, Serbia

Current Non-academic positions

2018 – Member of the board of directors and member of the audit committee of www.rs2.com

Awards

2024 – UBRI Educator of the year ofr teaching related to Blockchain
2018-24 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2017 EBS Business school Dean’s research award as the best published Professor at EBS in 2017 according to Handelsblatt Ranking.
2017-18 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2016 EBS Business school Dean’s research award as the best published Professor at EBS in 2016 according to Handelsblatt Ranking.
2016 A research prize awarded by DekaBank’s IQ-KAP institute for the paper “The Rate of Market Efficiency”
2016-17 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2016 Elected – Honorary member of EBS University Student Association
2015-16 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2014-15 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2013-14 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2012-13 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2011-12 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2010-11 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award
2009-10 EBS Student body elect favorite professor – Classroom excellence award

Teaching Experience

2019 – Advanced Investments (Undergraduate course at NYU)
2018 – Foundations of Finacial Markets (Undergraduate NYU Stern course)
2018 – 2019 Fintech Innovation (Undergraduate course at NYU)
2015-2018 Mergers and Acquisitions (Graduate course at EBS)
2015-2018 Managing finance (Executive MBA course at EBS)
2011-2018 Asset Pricing and Derivatives (Graduate course at EBS)
2012-2018 Corporate finance (MBA course at EBS)
2013-2015 Corporate finance (Executive MBA course at EBS)
2009-17 Investments – (First semester undergraduate course at EBS)
2009-12 Derivatives and Stochastic processes (graduate course at EBS)
2004-06 Financial Economics I, Financial Economics II, Corporate Finance – Undergraduate courses at University Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics
2005-2008 Preparatory courses for the Chartered Financial Analyst exams offered by the CFA Institute at South European Center for Contemporary Finance
2005-2008 Preparatory course for Professional Risk Managers (PRMTM) certification exams on Levels I-IV (i.e., all levels) at South European Center for Contemporary Finance
2005-2008 Mathematics and Modeling for Economics and Finance, Investments – Graduate courses in International Masters in Quantitative Finance program at University of Belgrade, Department of Economics

Scholarships and grants

2020 – 2024 University Blockchain Research Initiative
2010 EU FP6 RICAFE2 joint project with LSE and Tilburg
2010 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2010-2-0007
2010 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2010-1-0019
2009 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2009-3-0014
2009 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2009-2-0008
2008 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2008-3-0007
2008 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2008-2-0017
2008 Barcelona Supercomputing Center Grant – FI-2008-1-0028
2005-2008 FPU Research Graduate Scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
2004 FI Research Graduate Scholarship from Generalitat of Catalunya
2003 IGSOC Research Graduate Scholarship from Generalitat of Catalunya

Working Papers

Economics for AI and AI for Economics (with Yaw Nyarko)
Coreference Resolution for Measuring Sentiment in Financial News (with Frederik Wisser)
News Sentiment (with Benjamin Golez and Frederik Wisser)
The Rate of Market Efficiency (with Jose M. Marin) – Revise and Resubmit in The Journal of Finance – Awarded research prize by DekaBank’s IQ-KAP institute.
The Forward-looking Disclosures of Corporate Managers: Theory and Evidence (with Reint Gropp & Julian Opferkuch)
Home-country media slant (with Benjamin Golez) — EFA 2018, Colorado Finance Summit 2018, AFA 2019, 2019 News & Finance Conference – Columbia University, 2019 SFS Cavalcade, German Finance Association 2019

List of publications

Out-of-Sample Equity Premium Predictability and Sample Split Invariant Inference (with Gueorgui I. Kolev ) – The Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 84, November 2017.
Stock Returns and Future Tense Language in 10-K Reports – The Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 71, October 2016 – Covered by the Wall Street Journal, Covered by Bloomberg.
Revealing the Hidden Language of Complex Networks (with Ömer Nebil Yaveroglu, Noël Malod-Dognin, Darren Davis, Zoran Levnajic, Vuk Janjic, Aleksandar Stojmirovic and Nataša Pržulj), Nature Scientific Reports, Volume 4, April 2014.
Valuing Mortgage Insurance Contracts in Emerging Market Economies (with A. Bardhan and B. Urosevic), Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Volume 32, Issue 1, (2006).
Consequences of increased longevity on wealth, fertility, and population growth (with A. Bogojevic and A. Balaz), Physica A, Volume 387, Issues 2-3, (2008).
Optimization of network of schools” (with A.Bogojevic and I.Ivic), a book published by UNICEF, ISBN 86-82471-51-5

Patents

“RiskGuard*”, a risk management solution for banks and other financial institutions (Serbian Institute for Intellectual Property patent No. A-380/08/2 of September 9, 2008)
“Select9*”, IFRS9 compliance solution for banks and other financial institutions (Patent pending)
“Accurate*”, software framework for building and testing credit rating/scoring models (Patent pending)

Language skills

Computer skills

In depth understanding of Blockchain technologies
In depth understanding of Cryptography
Programming skills in C, C++, Fortran, PHP, Java Script, Java, DHTML, Basic, Pascal, Perl, Python, Mathematica, Matlab, etc.
Knowledge of database systems, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, SAP, Access, etc.
Knowledge of statistical packages Stata, SAS, JPM, Origin, R, etc.
Knowledge of system Administration of Linux, BSD/I, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OSX, IRIX, Microsoft Platforms, even some out of production systems like DOS, CP/M, BeOS, etc.
Knowledge of parallel computing systems based on SGI commercial and other noncommercial systems like Beowulf, GRID
Knowledge of Geographical Informational Systems by ESRI and AutoDesk
Knowledge of computer networking security

Activities and Interests

endurance sports
tennis
gourmet cooking
passed sailing and motor boat exams for boats of up to 100ft in Spain, UAE and Serbia
gymnastics (competed at national level) – still capable of some magic