Pauline Shum, B.A. (Hon.), M.A., PhD is an associate professor of finance at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Prof. Shum has extensive experience teaching at the B.A., B.B.A, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., and executive levels. Recently, she was nominated for the Schulich Teaching Excellence Award in 2009.
Prof. Shum was the Director of the PhD Programme at the Schulich School of Business from 2001 to 2005. She is the Founding Director of the Master of Finance (MF) programme at Schulich.
Prof. Shum's main area of research focuses on the relationship between financial and real decisions. This relationship is an important consideration for firms, as well as for households. At the firm level, she has studied the choice of capital structure and its effects on a firm's investment, and vice versa. At the household level, she has studied the impact of entrepreneurial and real estate investments on household portfolio choice. Prof. Shum has also expanded this line to research to study the influence of productivity on stock market performance. Recently, Prof. Shum has been studying the performance of international and leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and their roles in investors' portfolios. Prof. Shum's research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. Shum has also published in the areas of pensions, political events and financial markets, and alternative assets, such as art as an investment.Current and Past Positions
Associate Professor, Finance Area, Schulich School of Business, and Department of Economics, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, 1998-present.
Director, Ph.D Programme, Schulich School of Business, York University, 2001-2005.
Founding Director, Master of Finance (MF) programme, Schulich School of Business, York University, 2008-present.
Member, Board of Trustees' Subcommittee on Investment Performance (SCIP), York University Pension Plan, 2005-present.
Member, Advisory Board, 10th Annual Canada Cup of Investment Management, Toronto, 2011.
Member, U.S. equity manager search committee, 2006, infrastructure manager search committee, 2008, currency manager search committee, 2009, global equity manager search committee, 2010, York University Pension Plan.
Instructor, School of Pension Investment Management (SPIM), Mercer and Schulich School of Business, 2008 - present.
Research Associate, Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto, 1998-2009.
Co-chair, Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2007.
Visiting Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2005-2006.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Atkinson College and Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, 1992-1998.
More about me
Favourite food: Tandoori lamb (but where can I find it in Toronto???); favourite character: Lucy Van Pelt; addicted to Martelli pasta.
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