Rate My Professor Rita Madarassy-Akin

Madarassy-Akin’s academic interests lie in international economics and financial markets. Key publications include “Maturity Effects in Futures Markets: Evidence from Eleven Financial Futures Markets” (UC Santa Cruz Economics Working Paper No. 03-6, 2003), “Free to Flow? New Results on Capital Mobility Amongst the Developed Countries” with Menzie David Chinn (UC Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Working Paper No. 02-20, 2002), “Market Efficiency and the Lead-Lag Relationship Between Futures and Spot Rates for the Australian Dollar” with Dan Fischmar (Pennsylvania Economic Review, Fall 2009), “SPSS Manual” accompanying Business Statistics (Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2009 and 2011 editions), and “Empirical Determinants of Banking Crises: Japan’s Experience in International Perspective” with Michael Hutchison and Kathleen McDill (1999). She has presented research at the Western Economic Association International Conference (2011), International Atlantic Economics Association Annual Conference (2008), Pennsylvania Economic Association Annual Conference (2008), and Midwestern Economics Association Conference (2006). Honors include the U.C. Santa Cruz Doctoral Sabbatical Fellowship (2001), Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (1994), and Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society (1994). She has actively participated in workshops on sustainability across the curriculum, online teaching practices, and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco research conferences.