EW #817 Ph.D has participated in numerous cases in various Federal and local jurisdictions. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration Degree from the University of Maryland (1975) with a concentration in Financial Economics and minor areas in statistical analysis and accounting theory. He also holds a M.B.A (1970) and B.S. With High Honors (1968) in Finance from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Professor of Finance at the American University in Washington, D.C., has served as the Director of Economic Analysis at COMSAT and Associate and Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Hawaii. Hehas published over sixty articles in the area of financial economics and presented over one hundred papers at professional conferences.

Economist providing economic analysis and economic damages / expert witness testimony in personal injury, wrongful death, wrongful termination, wrongful discharge, business valuation, pension valuation, and divorce cases involving economic litigation. Economic losses include lost income, fringe benefits, household services, medical expenses, life care expenses and lost profits. We also perform the valuation of investments such as pensions, stocks, bonds, small businesses and structured settlements for bankruptcies, divorce and churning cases. Work includes both the calculation of damages for plaintiff cases and the analysis of economic reports for defense cases. We can arrange supporting expert services in vocational rehabilitation, taxes, and forensic accounting / financial statement reconstruction.

EW #817i s a senior Professor of Finance at the American University in Washington, D.C. and has served there as Chairman of the Department of Finance and Real Estate. Formerly, he was the Director of Financial and Regulatory Research at Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT). He also served on the faculties of the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaii. He has received numerous research grants from these universities and has received awards for Professor of the Year for Outstanding Teaching and awards for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Professional Contributions at the American University.

Courses taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels include Managerial Finance, Investment Analysis, Cash Management, Advanced Financial Management and Public Utility Regulatory Economics.

Hehas discussed financial and economic issues during appearances on NBC's Today Show, The NBC Nightly News, Fox Morning News, CBS News Nightwatch, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, ABC Radio Network News, CS Monitor Radio, WRC-TV, WUSA-TV and WTTG-TV (Washington, D.C.); Voice of America; WHUR, WWRC and WASH Radio (Washington D.C.); ABC's Perspective and the NBC/Mutual Radio Network News. He has taken questions from listeners on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show, Mike Cuthbert Show and Derek McGinty Show, (Washington, DC), WCCO (Minneapolis), KLBJ (Austin), KMOX (St. Louis) and WPBR (Palm Beach). He has been interviewed by Forbes, The Associated Press, Newsday, Business Week, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, Hearst Newspapers and Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo).

His financial research has appeared in Financial Analysts Journal, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Management, Journal of Finance, The Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Public Utilities Fortnightly, Southern Business Review, Akron Business and Economic Review and others. He serves on the editorial review board of three academic journals and won the American Association of Individual Investors Award for Best Paper in Investments.

EW #817 has presented papers before the Eastern, Southern, Midwestern, Southwestern and Western Finance Associations, the Financial Management Association and the American Institute of Decision Sciences. He is a financial advisor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and has qualified as an expert witness before the United States Congress and in numerous jurisdictions including the U.S. District Courts for Maryland, the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District, D.C. Superior Court, Circuit Courts in Alexandria, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Montgomery, Prince Georges, Frederick, Washington (County), Calvert, Arlington and Fairfax, the New York Stock Exchange Arbitration Board and the American Arbitration Association. Testimony has been presented on many economic and financial issues including valuation of businesses and lost income determination for contract disputes, pension fund management, account churning, personal injury, wrongful death, divorce actions and bankruptcy cases. Heproduced and presented a personal finance series on television news and served as an Advisor to the Hawaii State Legislature.

He holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Financial Economics from the University of Maryland.