Dr. David N. Nawrocki
Villanova School of Business
Department of Finance
Office Address: 2020 Bartley, next door to the Finance Department Office.
Office Phone: 610-519-4323 (Please email me during the pandemic)
Office Hours: Email for appointment.
E-Mail Addresses: NawrockiD@aol.com David.Nawrocki@villanova.edu
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Starting Date at Villanova: 1981
Degrees Earned: B.S., 1970, M.B.A., 1972, Ph.D., 1976, Pennsylvania State University.
Areas of Specialization: Financial Market Theory, Portfolio Management Theory, Investment Risk Measures, Ethics and Financial Markets, Asset Allocation and Portfolio Selection Algorithms, International Investment Management, General Systems Theory, Chaos Theory, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Disequilibrium Processes, and Educational Software Development.
Courses Taught - Fall 2022 - Portfolio Management
Finance 2227 - Fixed Income Markets Course Outline
Finance 2324 -- Portfolio Management: - Fall 2022
VSB 3500 - The Critical Thinking and Value Investing will not be offered again until Fall 2021 on Wednesday evenings.
Finance 8641 -- Student Managed Fund Class
Finance 2227 - Financial Markets Course Outline
Finance 2324 - Portfolio Management Course Outline
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Most Recent Research Publications
1. Nawrocki, David, and Fred Viole. "Behavioral Finance in Financial Market Theory, Utility Theory, Portfolio Theory and the Necessary Statistics: A Review." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2(2014), 10-17.
2. Cumova, Denisa, and David Nawrocki. "Portfolio Optimization in an Upside Potential and Downside Risk Framework." Journal of Economics and Business, 2014.
3. Nawrocki, David, and Tonis Vaga. "A bifurcation model of market returns." Quantitative Finance, (2014): 1-20.
4. Viole, Fred, and David Nawrocki. "An analysis of heterogeneous utility benchmarks in a zero return environment." International Review of Financial Analysis (2013).
5. Nawrocki, David, and Fred Viole. "Understanding the Flow of Funds System and the Financial Crisis of 2008." Advances in Financial Education, 2012.
6. Carosella, Nicholas, Jose Rodriguez, Scott Williams, David Nawrocki, and Jonathan Doh, "The Return-to-Risk Performance of Socially Responsible Investing According to Catholic Values." The Journal of Investing 21.4 (2012): 47-58.
7. Viole, Fred, and David Nawrocki. "The Utility of Wealth in an Upper-and Lower-Partial Moment Fabric." The Journal of Investing 20.2 (2011): 58-85.
8. Cumova, Denisa, and David Nawrocki. "A symmetric LPM model for heuristic mean�semivariance analysis." Journal of Economics and Business 63.3 (2011): 217-236.
9. Nawrocki, David, and William Carter. "Industry competitiveness using Herfindahl and entropy concentration indices with firm market capitalization data." Applied Economics 42.22 (2010): 2855-2863.
10. Nawrocki, D., Cumova, D., & Moreno, D. (2006). The Critical Line Algorithm for UPM/LPM Parametric General Asset Allocation Problem with Allocation Boundaries and Linear Constraints. (pp. 24). London UK: Palgrave Macmillan: Risk and Portfolio Management: The New Frontier. Original contribution.
11. Nawrocki, D., & Nawrocki, C. (2005). Learning Styles and Portfolio Management. Advances in Financial Education, 3, 89-98.
12.Nawrocki, D. (2004). Downside Risk Measures: A Brief History. (pp. 235-250). Princton NJ: Bloomberg Press: The Investment Think Tank, ed. Evensky and Katz. Update of original article that appeared in Journal of Investing, 1999, a peer-reviewed journal. Derivative of original contribution.
15. "The Problems with Monte Carlo Simulation." Journal of Financial Planning, November 2001.
16. "Portfolio Optimization, Heuristics, and the 'Butterfly Effect' ", Journal of Financial Planning, February 2000, 68-78.
17. "A Brief History of Downside Risk Measures." Journal of Investing, Fall 1999, 9-25.
18. "Earnings Announcements and Portfolio Selection: Do They Add Value?" (with William Carter), International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol.7, No.1, 1998, 37-50.
19. "Capital Market Theory: Is It Relevant to Practitioners?" Journal of Financial Planning, October 1997, 97-102.
20. "Apocalypse Revisited: Do You Know Where Your Optimizer is at Night." Journal of Financial Planning, December 1996, 68-74.
21. "Portfolio Analysis with a Large Universe of Assets." Applied Economics,1996, Vol. 28, 1191-1198.
22. "Market Dependence and Economic Events." Financial Review, May 1996, Vol. 31, No. 2, 287-312.
23. "Expectations, Technological Change, Information and the Theory of Financial Markets." International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1995, 85-106.
24. "R/S Analysis and Long Term Dependence in Stock Market Indices," Managerial Finance, Vol. 21, No. 7, 1995, 78-91.
All of the papers listed above are available for download from my research papers page.