Dr. Mohammad Najand
Professor of Finance

Old Dominion University
Phone: (757) 683-3501
Fax: (757) 683-5639
mnajand@odu.edu

Dr. Mohammad Najand, Professor of Finance, earned his doctoral degree from Syracuse University. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Business Administration. His research interests are in the areas of investments and forecasting volatility of financial markets.

He has published numerous articles in premier financial journals including Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Futures Markets, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Markets, Advances in Research in Investments, Review of Futures Markets, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, and Global Finance.

His publications include: (1) "The Risk Level Discriminatory Power of Mutual Fund Investment Objectives: Additional Evidence," Journal of Financial Markets, vol. 2, 1999, pp. 307-328 (co-authored with L. Prather), and (2) "Are the Structural Changes in Mutual Funds Investing Driving the U.S. Stock Market to its Current Levels?" Journal of Financial Research, vol. XXII, no. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 317-329 (co-authored with M. Mosebach), (3) "Forecasting Stock Index Futures Volatility: Linear vs. Nonlinear Models," The Financial Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2002, pp. 93-104.