Hassan Tehranian received his BS degree from the Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting and his MBA and PhD degrees in Finance from the University of Alabama. He is the founder of the Graduate Finance Program at Boston College (MSF and PhD). Currently, he is Professor and Chairperson of the Finance Department and Director of the Center for Asset Management.

Professor Tehranian has teaching and research interests in the areas of corporate finance, investments, the effect of deregulation on the structure and efficiency of the banking industry, and portfolio analysis. He has published widely in the fields of portfolio performance, management compensation, bank mergers, government deregulation, and securities return distribution. He has published articles in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, The Financial Review, and the Journal of Financial Research. He is serving as a guest editor for the special issue of the Review of Financial Economics article entitled "Commercial Banks: Performance, Regulation, and Market Value."

He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economics and Business, Review of Financial Economics and the Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics. Dr. Tehranian is currently a member of the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association. He is also a consultant to local and national firms.

Carroll School of Management
Fulton Hall 324C
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
hassan.tehranian.1@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-3944
web site: http://www2.bc.edu/~tehranih/