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Raluca Stan, Ph.D. 2018

Assistant Professor of Finance

University of Minnesota Duluth

RESEARCH INTERESTS 
  • Empirical Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Behavioral Finance, Investments 
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 
  • University of Minnesota Duluth, Labovitz School of Business and Economics Assistant Professor of Finance 2018- Present 
EDUCATION 
  • West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Ph. D. in Finance 2018 
  • West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV M. A. in Economics 2013 
  • BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway M. Sc. in Finance 2011 
  • Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania B. Sc. in Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science 2009 
PUBLICATIONS 
  • ‘Monetary Policy Uncertainty and the Market Reaction to Macroeconomic News’, with Alexander Kurov . Journal of Banking and Finance 2018 , 86, 127-142.

  • ‘It’s not just  What  you say, but  How  you say it: Why Tonality Matters in Central Bank Communication’, with Chen Gu, Denghui Chen, and Aizhong Shen,  Journal of Empirical Finance,  68, 216-231.

  • ‘Resolution of Financial Market Uncertainty around the release of Unemployment Rate Announcements’, with Chen Gu and Denghui Chen,  International Review of Economics and Finance,  80, 586-596.

  • ‘The Information Content of the VIX Options Trading Volume’, with Chen Gu, Xu Guo, and Alexander Kurov.  Journal of Futures Markets,   2022, 42, 1721–1737.

  • ‘Investor Sentiment and the Market Reaction to Macroeconomic News’, with Chen Gu and Denghui Chen.  Journal of Futures Markets,  2021, 41(9), 1412-1426.

WORKING PAPERS 
  • ‘Ambiguity and the cross-section of stock returns’, with Ann Marie Hibbert