Anisfield School of Business (ASB)

Professor of Finance

Year Joined RCNJ: 1998

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7037
• E-mail: jhecht@ramapo.edu  
• Office: ASB-208
• Office Hours: Mon  3:30 pm - 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm ; Thu 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Education:

• B.A., S.U.N.Y., Oneonta
• M.A., S.U.N.Y., Binghamton
• M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research

Courses Offered:

• Commercial Bank Management
• Corporate Finance I
• Econometrics
• Financial and Economic Forecasting
• Risk Management and Insurance
• Securities and Investments

Teaching Interest:

• Corporate Finance
• Commercial Bank Management
• Securities and Investments
• Risk Management and Insurance
• Econometrics
• Financial and Economic Forecasting

Research Interest:

• Stock Returns and Real Profitability
• Pooling Models of Profitability
• Competition and Technological Change in Financial Services
• Duration, Convexity, and Interest Rate Risk in ALM for Banking and Insurance Companies
• Financial and Economic History

Recent Publications:

• Hecht, J. & Haye, E. M. (2009).  Modeling the Recent Capital Structure of American, Chinese, and Indian Firms.   Financial Decisions, 21 (1).  
• Hecht, J. & Haye, E. M. (2009).  Pooling vs. Panel Models of Leverage for American, Asian, and European Firms.   European Journal of Economics, Finance, and Administrative Sciences.  
• Hecht, J. (2008).  Modeling Profitability and Capital Intensity Using Panel Corrected Significance Tests.   Applied Financial Economics, 18 (18), 1501-1513.