Victor Ricciardi – Noted Expert in Behavioral Finance, Author, Educator & Financial Literacy Advocate
Personal Notes
In my six years at Goucher College, the most enjoyable aspects of my employment have been to increase the financial literacy of my students and to educate them about behavioral finance. My experience teaching at a liberal arts intuition has helped me in preparing and developing a pleasant speaking style to all types of audiences. My presentations combine personal finance issues and behavioral finance research to help improve the long-term understanding for audience members. I especially enjoy using humor and sharing my own personal experiences about my own mistakes and successes as a financial expert.
Bio
Victor Ricciardi is an Assistant Professor of Financial Management at Goucher College. He teaches undergraduate courses in personal financial planning, financial management, investments, behavioral finance, and the psychology of money. Professor Ricciardi is the Coordinator of Behavioral and Experimental Research at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at www.ssrn.com. He is also an editor for several SSRN eJournals in the topic areas of behavioral finance, financial history, behavioral economics, behavioral accounting, game theory, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. Professor Ricciardi is a leading expert on the academic literature and emerging research issues in behavioral finance. He also has more than 15 years of practical experience in the financial services industry as a mutual fund accountant and consultant with financial planners and advisors.
Professor Ricciardi is a former Assistant Professor of Finance from Kentucky State University in 2005 to 2008. He taught courses in personal financial planning, corporate finance, investments, cases in financial management, research and career skills in finance, investments, economics for managers, money and banking, and behavioral finance. While at Kentucky State University, the Faculty Senate approved his proposal for a finance specialization after which the School of Business started to offer an undergraduate specialization in finance within the Bachelor of Arts degree program. As part of this finance specialization curriculum, a behavioral finance class served as the basis for a capstone course.
Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi are co-editors of the book Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing was published in February 2014 and the book is part of the Wiley Finance Series. This research endeavor is a contributor series book that incorporates 30 chapters written by 45 leading experts (academics and practitioners) on the emerging research on investor psychology in personal finance, financial planning, and investment management. Professor Ricciardi’s second book Financial Behavior – Players, Services, Products, and Markets with Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck serving as his co-editors and the publisher is Oxford University Press. This endeavor is a contributor series book with 30 chapters and over 50 contributors, the expected publication date is May, 2017.
He has given more than 60 presentations at meetings, seminars, and conferences in the past 15 years on the topics of investments, perceived risk, behavioral finance, and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Professor Ricciardi is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Behavioral Accounting and Finance, a reviewer for the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, and a member of the advisory board of the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics. He has worked on consulting projects on questionnaire research and investor behavior for FinaMetrica (a behavioral finance research firm) and Armstrong Early, LLC. Since 2012, Professor Ricciardi has been quoted in more than 100 news stories and has appeared on 25 radio/podcast interviews on various behavioral finance issues. He also has extensive name recognition as a behavioral finance expert with over 77,000 followers on Twitter and more than 15,000 contacts in his LinkedIn professional network.
He began his professional career in New York City as an international portfolio accountant at Alliance Capital Management and a mutual fund accountant for Dreyfus Corporation. He has also been employed as an economic analyst at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). He has completed major consulting research reports on grant-making activities, university financial and accounting management systems, and an e-banking company case study.
Professor Ricciardi received and BBA in Accounting and Management from Hofstra University and an MBA in finance and Advanced Professional Certificate (APC) in economics from St. John’s University. He is a former doctoral candidate in finance and achieved all but dissertation (ABD) status at Golden Gate University. His dissertation research focused on the expert decision-making process of finance professors and financial planners in assessing perceived risk for common stock investments. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Personal Family Financial Planning from Kansas State University.