Researcher of the Year Award
2007-2008 Recipients
The SBA Research Committee is pleased to award the annual Faculty Researcher of the year Award to Professors A.G. (Tassos) Malliaris and Jasmine Tata. The award recipient is chosen on the basis of both the quality and quantity of research output within the past five years as enumerated and reported in the most recent Faculty Research Inventory Report.
Professor Tassos Malliaris has dedicated a long and distinguished academic career to the pursuit of re‐search. He is an internationally renowned expert in financial economics and future and options markets, and has published extensively in those areas. In addition to successfully investigating difficult theoretical and practical issues in his field, he has collaborated with scholars in other parts of the world and organized con‐ferences on timely and important issues. In recognition of his scholarly efforts, Professor Malliaris was Loyola University Chicago’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year in 2001 and was awarded the first SBA Researcher of the Year. Malliaris recently had two papers accepted for publication: The first one is on “The Impact of In‐formation Signals on Market Prices When the Agents Have Non‐Linear Trading Rules” in Economic Modelling and co‐authored by Catherine Kyrtsou. The second is on “Modelling Federal Funds Rates: A Comparison of Four Methodologies,” in Neural Computing and Applications and co‐authored by Mary Malliaris, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.
Malliaris also had several presentations: “Central Bank Transparency: Theory and Empirical Tests,” 9th Biennial Conference of the Athenian Policy Forum and the Ath‐ens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, July 2008 with Marc Hayford, Professor of Eco‐nomics; “Reconsidering NAFTA,” 9th Biennial Confer‐ence of the Athenian Policy Forum and the Athens Uni‐versity of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, July 2008 with Alex Kondonassis; “Financial Instabilities and Risk Management by Central Banks,” Western Economic Association International 83rd Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2008 with Marc Hayford; and “Oil, Gold and the Euro,” Western Economic Association International 83rd Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2008 with Mary Malliaris.
Professor Jasmine Tata is a well‐known expert in the field of International Management, and has published extensively using international comparisons in work‐family balance, manager influence strategies, micro‐enterprises, and the related areas of social capital and micro‐credit. In recognition of scholarly efforts, she was appointed a Loyola University Faculty Scholar for the years 2000 to 2003, and was named the Researcher of the Year by the SBA in 2001. In addition to her out‐standing research, Professor Tata has been recognized for her teaching excellence in the international man‐agement area. She recently published “A Model for Predicting Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Complaints by Race and Gender” (with H. Luthar & E. Kwesiga) in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal and “Neu‐ral Networks and Organizational Systems” (with J. Grznar & S. Prasad) in European Journal of Operational Research.
2006-2007 Recipient
The SBA Research Committee is pleased to award the annual Faculty Researcher of the Year to Professor George Kaufman, John Smith Professor of Finance and Banking.
Professor George Kaufman is globally recognized as one of the most distinguished scholars in the finance area. His areas of specializations are Bank Regulation and Management, Federal Reserve Policy, and Financial Markets. Over his long and distinguished career, he has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Review of Economics and Statistics, among others. He has also published over 20 books and numerous monographs. He is very active in professional activities and in public service. He serves as the editor of the Journal of Financial Stability; on the editorial boards of prestigious journals; is serving as the Co-chair of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee; and has given numerous Congressional testimonies. In 2002, Professor Kaufman received the Adam Smith Award from the National Association for Business Economics for his life time contribution in the field of economics and finance.
2005-2006 Recipients
The SBA Research Committee is pleased to award the annual Faculty Researcher of the Year to Dr. Suzy Fox and Dr. Patricia Simpson.
This year the award is presented jointly to Professor Suzy Fox and Professor Patricia Simpson, both Associate Professors in the Human Resources and Employee Relations department. The award recipients were chosen on the basis of both the quality and quantity of research output within the past five years as enumerated and reported in the most recent Faculty Research Inventory Report.
Suzy Fox
Professor Fox's research areas are counterproductive work behavior, with her colleague and mentor Paul Spector; racial/ethnic workplace bullying, with Lamont E. Stallworth; and the Successful Women Worldwide international research group. She has presented research at conferences in Peru, Hungary, Poland, Canada and the U.S., and taught in executive and continuing education classes in Austria and Puerto Rico. She has published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Dynamics, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal of Kent Law School.
Dr. Fox has further coauthored a book with Paul Spector, Counterproductive Work Behavior: Investigations of Actors and Targets. Her new book, From Polar Winds to Tropical Breezes: Successful Professional Women of the Americas, coauthored with the Successful Women Worldwide research team, will be published in September 2006. She has been awarded a 2006 Summer Stipend for a new study of stress, burnout and productivity of academic faculty.
Patricia Simpson
A working paper which Professor Simpson coauthored on changing patterns of occupational segregation is currently available from the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also has published articles on occupational segregation by gender in Feminist Economics and on occupational segregation by race in Social Science Research. She has conducted survey research on the division of emotional labor by gender in the workplace, resulting in a publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology. A second stream of research focuses on the training needs and activities of older workers. Her work in this area has appeared in Human Resource Management Review, Feminist Economics, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
A forthcoming textbook on older workers will also contain a chapter that she authored on the topic of older workers and training. An analysis of the implications of social security reform for older women is scheduled for publication in Challenge. Dr. Simpson is also interested in standards and norms of organizational justice and how these norms influence responses to wage structures, national income distribution patterns and union organizing campaigns. Articles from this stream of research have appeared in Employee Rights and Responsibilities and in the Journal of Labor Research. She has also published articles on contract administration and union steward power in Industrial Relations Research Review and Labor Studies Journal.
Past Recipients
Former recipients of the Researcher of the Year award include:
- Nenad Jukic, Information Systems and Operations Management (2004-2005)
- Arup Varma, Institute of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (2003-2004)
- David Merriman, Economics (2002-2003)
- Mark Van Oyen (2001-2002)
