Dr. Scott E. Hein

Robert C. Brown Chair of 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:  TT 9:30-11:00

E-Mail:  scott.hein@ttu.edu

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

          Professor Hein was appointed to the Robert C. Brown Chair in Finance in the fall 2008 and serves as the Faculty Director of the Texas Tech School of Banking. Professor Hein is also member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy and past recipient of the Texas Tech University Academic Achievement Award.

             Professor Hein also serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado,  and the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking (at SMU). He is also co-author on a reference book, The Stock Market, with Rik W. Hafer, Greenwood Press.

           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, First Quarter 2005.

Current Working Papers:

"The Federal Home Loan Banks and Commercial Bank Risk Taking: An Overstated Moral Hazard?" Jonathan A. Scott and Scott E. Hein

"S Corporation Banks: The Impact of Taxes and Ownership on Capital Structure and Performance," Ken B. Cyree, Scott E. Hein and Timothy W. Koch

"Default Risk and the Correlation of Stock Returns and Bond Yield Changes," Ilhan Demiralp and Scott E. Hein

Recent "White Policy Papers"

"Evaluating the Fed Chairman," Scott Hein (August 2009)

"The New FDIC Insurance Premium Assessments: A Better Way" Scott Hein and Timothy Koch (April 2009)

"Should Community Banks Borrow Under the Federal Reserve's Term Auction Facility?" Scott Hein and Timothy Koch (January 2009)