Dr. Rebecca Abraham

abraham@nova.edu

Dr. Rebecca Abraham is a Finance Professor at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. She earned a doctorate in Business Administration-Finance from U.S. International University in 1989. After working at National University as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Management Science, she joined the Farquhar Center of Nova Southeastern University in Fall 1989. She has taught a variety of courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels in corporate finance, investments, portfolio theory, financial management, business strategy and policy, quantitative methods, micro and macroeconomics. In recognition of her service to students, she was the recipient of the first Farquhar Center Award for Teaching Excellence in 2000, and the Teacher of the Year Award from the Huizenga School in 2006.

Dr. Abraham has published extensively. Her publications have appeared in the The Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Business and Leadership, the International Journal of Finance, Journal of Psychology, Genetic, Social, and Psychology Monographs, and Leadership and Organization Development Journal. Her book chapter was published in Advances in Business and Management Forecasting by Elsevier. She serves on the Editorial Review Board of Personality and Individual Differences. Along with Dr. Robert Trippi, formerly of California State University-Long Beach, she pioneered a method for determining implicit interest rates in option prices. Her work has also appeared in Conference Proceedings of the national and regional Decision Sciences Institute.