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Richard Borghesi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Finance

Phone 941-359-4524
Fax: 941-359-4367
Office: SMC-C231
Email: rborghesi@sar.usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Borghesi earned a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2004 and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago in 1995. His research interests include corporate finance, corruption, market efficiency, and prediction markets, and he has published in Financial Management, Southern Economic Journal, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Applied Business Research, Journal of Economics and Business, Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics, and The Journal of Prediction Markets. Dr. Borghesi has taught corporate finance, finance information technology, case problems in finance, efficiency of financial markets, and behavioral finance. Dr. Borghesi founded Rick's Research Café at USF Sarasota-Manatee.  (more...) A monthly seminar series Rick's Research Café gives USFSM faculty an opportunity to present their unfinished research projects. The goal is to facilitate constructive feedback from cross-disciplinary peers to help the author improve the quality of his/her work prior to publication. If you would like to present your ongoing research in this forum, please email Dr. Borghesi.    Rick's Research Café website    (hide...)

Publications

Borghesi, Richard, 2012.  The Implications of an RFL Bias in a Prediction Market, The Journal of Prediction Markets 6(2), 12-21.  

Borghesi, Richard, (2011), "Price Biases and Contract Design: Lessons from Tradesports," in Leighton Vaughan Williams (ed.), Prediction Markets, (London: Routledge).

Borghesi, Richard and Tom Pencek, (2011). "The Value of SmartMoney’s Stock Recommendations", Applied Economics Letters 18(10), 949-953.

For additional publications by Dr. Borghesi, please go to the Faculty Publications website.

Teaching

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Courses for Spring 2013
Ref # 11216  FIN 3403, Section 591,  Principles of Finance, M 6pm-8:50pm
Ref # 22096  FIN 4453, Section 521,  Finance Information Technology,  M  12:00pm-2:50pm
Ref # 22020  FIN 6595, Section 521,  Efficiency of Financial Mkts, S  8:30am-12:30pm
          Professional MBA - Session 2: Meets 03/02-04/27. [Spring Break 03/16] 

Courses for Fall 2012
Ref # 84409  FIN 3403, Sect: 521, Principles of Finance, R 9:00am-11:50am
Ref # 92315  FIN 6406, Sect: 521, Financial Management Professional,  S 1:30pm-5:00pm 
     MBA Session 2: Meets 10/20-12/15. [No class 11/24]

Courses for Spring 2012
Ref # 16993 FIN 3403, Section 521, Principles of Finance, R 9:00am-11:50am   (Selby Auditorium)
Ref # 20957 FIN 6934, Section 521, Selected Topic:"Efficiency of Financial Markets", S 8:00am-12:30pm