Faculty
Ann Marie Hibbert, Ph.D.
Finance Department Chair, Professor, Finance
Dr. Hibbert is a Professor of Finance and the Interim Chair of the Finance Department. She also currently leads the Center for Financial Literacy and Education (CFLE).
Dr. Hibbert's research is primarily in the area of behavioral finance. She has published articles in top finance journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and others. She was an elected member of the Board of the Eastern Finance Association from 2017-2020 and is currently an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics (an A-level journal on the College journal list). She also regularly serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for a large number of high-quality finance and economics journals.
Dr. Hibbert has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and in a variety of modality including synchronous and asynchronous online as well as Hyflex. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on business finance, securities analysis, portfolio management, derivative securities, intermediate and advanced corporate finance and personal finance. Dr. Hibbert earned the Certificate in Effective Instruction, Association of College and University Educators (2022).
In addition to serving on multiple departmental and college committees, some of which she chaired, Dr. Hibbert served as the coordinator for the Finance Ph.D. program from 2019-2022. She also served two consecutive three-year terms as an elected member of the WVU faculty senate from 2016-2022. During that time, she served on multiple committees, including being a member of the WVU Faculty Senate's executive committee from 2020-2022, and is a past chair of the Faculty Senate's Research Integrity Committee and Committee on Committees, Membership, and Constituencies. Dr. Hibbert was the recipient of the John Chambers College of Business & Economics Dean’s Award of Distinction in Service in 2019 and 2022.
Since 2017, Dr. Hibbert has been a faculty coach for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity’s Faculty Success Program (FSP) and was a recipient of their inaugural coaching excellence award in 2021.
Prior to academia, Dr. Hibbert was a successful corporate finance executive for close to ten years.
Ruiyuan Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Finance
Dr. Chen’s research interests include privatization, state ownership, and corporate governance. Specifically, he investigates the role of state ownership in the context of privatization and sovereign wealth funds. He also examines the role of corporate governance in corporate decision making. Dr. Chen has published in several top journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Corporate Finance, among others.
He teaches taught several undergraduate courses including business finance, intermediate finance, bank management, and international finance. He also teaches Ph.D. seminar in corporate finance.
In addition to his service to the professional field as a referee for journals, and program committee for academic conferences, Dr. Chen currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Review of International Business and Finance. Moreover, he has served on the departmental undergraduate committee, Ph.D. committee, hiring committee, and strategic planning committee. Dr. Chen also serves as Ph.D. dissertation committee chair and committee member for Ph.D. students in the finance department at the West Virginia University.
Victor Chow Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Finance, Finance
Adjunct Professor, Economics
Director, Center for Asian Business
Dr. Chow teaches business finance, security analysis and portfolio management, banking firm management, and executive financial education. He is a researcher for portfolio and fund management, income distribution and taxes, stochastic dominance and statistical modeling, and Asian-Pacific financial markets. He also does financial consulting and planning for international investments and trades between the U.S., mainland China, and Taiwan.
Pawan Jain Ph.D, CFA, CFP
Associate Professor, Finance
Dr. Pawan Jain received his Ph.D. in Finance from The University of Memphis in 2013 and a Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Wyoming in 2008. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) charterholder and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®). He is also a Blockchain expert as certified by the American Institute of CPAs®.
Dr. Jain has authored several scholarly articles in leading finance and real estate journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Financial Management, Journal of real Estate Finance and Economics, etc. He has won several awards and honors for his high quality research and outstanding teaching. He has made over 200 presentations at professional meetings and has also been invited to present his research at several premier business schools, such as the University of Mississippi, Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, Kolkata, and Indore), Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Wyoming, University of Memphis, and Marquette University, among others. Dr. Jain’s research has been featured in popular press and he has been interviewed several times by the news channels for his opinion on stock market regulations , Blockchain, and high frequency trading. He has also been invited to present his research at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Reserve Bank of India, and National Stock Exchange of India. He was also invited to serve on the state of Wyoming's Blockchain Coalition.
In addition to being an outstanding researcher, Dr. Jain is an excellent teacher. He has been teaching online since 2005. He challenges and inspires his students to find their passion and attempt to become a World expert. His coaching goes well beyond the classroom lecture experience. He travels with the students to leading global events and student competitions on investment research where students apply the textbook knowledge at a level that can help them secure the best employment opportunities in the field.
Alexander Kurov Ph.D.
Fred T. Tattersall Research Chair in Finance, Finance
Professor, Finance
Dr. Kurov’s research interests are in financial market efficiency, futures markets, and commodity markets. His work examines price discovery, informed trading and the effect of public announcements on asset prices. He teaches primarily graduate courses on derivative securities, quantitative investment analysis, and a doctoral seminar in market microstructure.
Dr. Kurov’s articles have appeared in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, etc. His research has featured prominently in international media including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN Money, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, etc.
Dr. Kurov is an associate editor of the Journal of Commodity Markets and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Dr. Kurov’s profiles on Google Scholar and SSRN
Bingxin Li Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance, Finance Ph.D. program coordinator, Finance
Dr. Li’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing, pricing models of financial derivatives, financial risk management, and energy finance. She has published in leading finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, The Financial Review, Energy Economics, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Commodity Markets, etc.
Dr. Li teaches one Ph.D. course, Asset Pricing, and several undergraduate courses including Derivatives, Investments, Financial Risk Management, and Energy Financial Economics.
Dr. Li currently serves as the Coordinator of the Finance Ph.D. program. She is also a faculty member of the Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization at West Virginia University.
Dr. Li’s profiles on ResearchGate and SSRN.
Helen Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Finance
Dr. Helen Wang is an Associate Professor of Finance at West Virginia University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and previously taught at Renmin University of China. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, and international finance. Dr. Wang's work has been published in top journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Banking and Finance. She serves as an associate editor of the Global Finance Journal and Research in International Business and Finance. She has received prestigious awards for her research, including the Best Paper Award from the Academy of International Business Meeting, the Frontier of Business Research in China International Conference, and the World Business Ethics Forum.
Gulnara Zaynutdinova Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Finance
Gulnara.Zaynutdinova@mail.wvu.edu
Dr. Zaynutdinova’s research program falls in the domain of empirical asset pricing and covers the following subfields: institutional investors, market efficiency, corporate governance, and responsible investing. She also has a special interest in energy finance. Her work examines performance and skills of professional asset managers and their role in corporate governance. In addition, her research aims to understand how quickly and efficiently information gets incorporated into asset prices by documenting and exploring various market anomalies (e.g., hazard stocks anomaly, profitability-based anomalies, large price movements’ anomalies, etc.).
Dr. Zaynutdinova has authored scholarly articles in leading finance and business journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Research, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, and other peer reviewed academic journals. Dr. Zaynutdinova is a recipient of several research awards. Her work has been presented at numerous regional, national, and international conferences such as the American Accounting Association, Australasian Finance & Banking Conference, Financial Management Association, Midwest Finance Association, Southern Finance Association, Southwestern Finance Association, European Financial Management Association, Eastern Finance Association, among others. She served as a reviewer for numerous academic journal articles and annual conference programs.
Dr. Zaynutdinova taught variety of online and in-person courses such as Financial Management, Financial Institutions, Intermediate Finance, and Investments for undergraduate students. She also developed a Ph.D. course in Investments. Dr. Zaynutdinova received teaching awards at WSU and WVU.
Dr. Gulnara R. Zaynutdinova earned her Ph.D. in Finance and M.A. in Applied Economics from Washington State University. While pursuing her Ph.D. degree, Dr. Zaynutdinova also worked as a lecturer at the University of Idaho. Prior to embarking on her doctoral journey, she worked for a pharmaceutical company.
Dr. Zaynutdinova’s profiles on Google Scholar, SSRN, and LinkedIn