Delroy Hunter

Delroy HunterDelroy Hunter
Associate Professor

A Bank of America professor of finance, Delroy Hunter currently teaches a graduate course in investments. He has taught a wide range of courses, at all levels.

His research, focusing on international finance, investments, and empirical asset pricing, has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. His research has won the prestigious Goldman Sachs Quant Award at the Western Finance Association conference, has been a semifinalist for best paper award at the Financial Management Association conference, and has been included in SSRN’s top 10 most frequently downloaded papers in different subfields. He has also received the College of Business’ Research Achievement award and a Summer Research Grant. He has presented his research at top academic conferences.

Hunter earned his PhD from the University of Warwick, U.K., an MA from the University of Florida, and a BSc from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Prior to joining USF in 2001, he taught at Bentley University and the University of the West Indies.

room: BSN 3124 | phone: 813.974.6319 | fax: 813.974.3084 | dhunter2@usf.edu

Teaching

  • FIN 6605 - International Financial Management
  • FIN 7930 - Empirical Methods - Syllabus

Current Research

My research focuses on international finance, investments, empirical asset pricing, and specific topics in corporate finance. Current projects include:

  • examining the effects of firms sensitivity to exchange rate risk on their access to external financing
  • assessing how regulatory changes, such as financial market liberalization and the adoption of bank deposit insurance schemes, affect the efficacy of local monetary policy and local capital market development
  • investigating the potential information signal from the credit and operating decisions of banks to determine its usefulness to investment decisions

Service

  • USF College of Business: Research and Scholarship Committee
  • USF Dept of Finance: seminar coordinator; faculty search committee; all aspects of doctoral education
  • Academic conferences: Program Committee member, session chair, or discussant at various conferences
  • Other services: ad hoc reviewer for academic journals, research grant institutions, and publishers