Dr. Scott E. Hein

I. Wylie and Elizabeth Briscoe Chair of Bank Management and Finance

Texas Tech University

Rawls College of Business Administration
Finance Department
MS 2101
Lubbock, TX  79409-2101

Phone:  (806) 742-3433, Fax (806) 742-3197
Office:  BA 903
Office Hours: 

E-Mail:  scott.hein@ttu.edu

Biographical Information

          Professor Hein currently serves as the Briscoe Chair of Bank Management and Finance and is Faculty Director of the Texas Tech School of Banking. Hein is also member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy and serves on the University Graduate Council.

             Professor Hein also serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado, The Graduate School of Banking at LSU, and the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking (at SMU), and is currently a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

           Professor Hein has won numerous teaching awards, including most recently the Jerry S. Rawls Excellence in Teaching Award (2007), and research awards.  Professor Hein is active in numerous professional organizations, including the Financial Management Association and he is past President of the Southwestern Finance Association. Professor Hein has published numerous articles in finance and economics. His research efforts have been recognized with many professional awards, including five separate best paper awards for presentations at academic meetings.  He is currently on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics.  

Recent Selected Publications:

"Are Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Really Tax Disadvantaged?" Scott E. Hein and Jeffrey M. Mercer, Journal of Financial Research, 2006 V.29-4, PP 575-592

"The Effect of Heterogeneous Risk on the Early Adoption of Internet Banking Technologies," Keldon Bauer and Scott E. Hein, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2006 V.30-6.

"On the Uniqueness of Community Banks," Scott E. Hein, Timothy W. Koch and S. Scott MacDonald, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Economic Review  (1^st Quarter 2005).

"Improving Tests of Abnormal Returns Significance Using the Event Parameter Estimation Approach," Scott E. Hein and Peter Westfall, Journal of Financial Econometrics (2004), V.2-3, Pp. 451-471.

Education

B.A., University of New Mexico, 1973; M.A., 1975; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1979