The nation’s leading commodities exchange put up $45,000 to back Sacred Heart University research into helping participants better understand the behavior of financial futures and better manage financial risks.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group Foundation grant will fund two research projects by Economics and Finance Chair Lucjan T. Orlowski, and assistant professors Abu S. Amin and Kwamie Dunbar.
Orlowski will conduct a study that examines stock and bond market volatility. Amin and Dunbar will co-lead a study that examines the volatility of short-term interest rates.
Outcomes will be presented at one international and two domestic financial seminars.
The U.S. seminars will take place in New York City and Chicago in the spring and fall, organized by the Chicago exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange, geared to financial professionals.
The international seminar will take place in May in Luxembourg.
