Lecturer
Finance and Accounting Group
• Phone:+44(0)121 204 3193
• Email: h.colaco@aston.ac.uk
• Room: ABS417
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Education
CFA® charterholder, CFA Institute, Charlottesville, VA, USA, November 2010
Ph.D. in Finance, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, December 2006
M.B.A. in Finance, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, USA, May 1998
B.Com., Financial Accounting & Auditing, University of Bombay, India, April 1986
Employment
Lecturer in Finance, Aston Business School, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2011 to present
Assistant Professor of Finance, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, USA, 2010-2011
Assistant Professor of Finance, Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA, 2006-2010
Instructor in Finance, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, 2001-2006
Teaching
I have taught finance classes at the undergraduate, MBA, and MSc levels for the past twelve years in the United States and United Kingdom. Classes taught include Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Investments, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Risk Management & Insurance, Life Insurance & Retirement Security, Personal Finance, and CFA® Track workshop by Aston University.
For the academic year 2012-13, I will be teaching the following MSc modules:-
• BFM102 Valuation of Investments (Fixed income material from CFA Program)
• CFA® Track workshop by Aston University (CFA Program Level I exam material)
Research
Interests
Corporate Finance (especially Initial Public Offerings)
Journal Articles
Hugh Colaco, Paul Myers, and Mindell Nitkin, “Pathways to Leadership: Board Independence, Diversity, and the Emerging Pipeline in the U.S. for Women Directors,” International Journal of Disclosure & Governance, May 2011, pp. 122-147. [Recipient of 2012 KPMG Outstanding Published Manuscript Award from the Gender Issues & Work-Life Balance Section of the American Accounting Association]
Hugh Colaco, Chinmoy Ghosh, John Knopf, and John Teall, “IPOs, clustering, indirect learning and filing independently,” Journal of Banking and Finance, November 2009, pp. 2070-2079.
Book Chapter
Hugh Colaco and Shantaram P. Hegde, "Underwriter reputation, bookbuilding and IPO duration " forthcoming in Handbook of Research on IPOs, Edward Elgar publishing.
Working papers
Hugh Colaco and Shantaram P. Hegde, “Do firms that go public quickly perform better?” (2nd best paper prize at 2012 India Finance Conference held at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta)
Hugh Colaco, Amedeo De Cesari, and Shantaram P. Hegde, "Retail investor sentiment and IPO valuation"
Membership of Professional Bodies
CFA Institute
Financial Management Association
