Robert a Schwartz

Regulation of U.S. Equity Markets - Zicklin School of Business Financial Markets Series Robert a Schwartz 2001 edition

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Conf. papers, 1999.. Table of Contents: List of Participants. Conference Sponsors. Preface. 1. View from the Nyse; W. R. Johnston. 2. The Broad Perspective; R. Schwartz. 3. View from the Amex; R. F. Syron. 4. Impact on the Trading Desk; E. Sirri. 5. View from NASDAQ; A. R. Berkeley, III. 6. View from the Sec-Promoting Fair and Efficient Markets as a Regulatory End; L. S. Unger. 7. Development of Alternative Markets; W. Lupien. 8. Implications for Innovation, Competition and Efficiency; D. Weaver. 9. The Regulators' Perspective; M. O'Hara. Participant Biographies. Index.

Contributor Bio:  Schwartz, Robert A Robert A. Schwartz is Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Before joining the Baruch faculty in 1997, he was Professor of Finance and Economics and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1965. Professor Schwartz received his Ph. D. in Economics from Columbia University. His research is in the area of financial economics, with a primary focus on the structure of securities markets. He has published numerous journal articles and eleven books, including Equity Markets in Action: The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure and Trading, Wiley & Sons, 2004, and Reshaping the Equity Markets: A Guide for the 1990s, Harper Business, 1991 (reissued by Business One Irwin, 1993). He has served as a consultant to various market centers including the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange, Instinet, the Arizona Stock Exchange, Deutsche BArse, and the Bolsa Mexicana. From April 1983 to April 1988, he was an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, and he is currently an associate editor of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance & Business Ventures, and is a member of the advisory board of International Finance. In December 1995, Professor Schwartz was named the first chairman of Nasdaq's Economic Advisory Board, and he served on the EAB until Spring 1999.