Philip Z Maymin
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance and Risk Engineering
- Phone: 718-260-3175
- Email: pmaymin@poly.edu
- Website: http://philmaymin.com
Education
University of Chicago, Class of 2007
Ph.D., Finance
Harvard University, Class of 1997
M.S., Applied Mathematics
Harvard University, Class of 1997
B.A., Computer Science
Courses Taught
Behavioral Finance
Financial Risk Management and Asset Pricing
Intermediate Derivatives & ApplicationsResearch Interests
- Behavioral Finance
- Derivatives and Hedge Funds
- Agent-Based Modeling
Memberships
Patents
Quantum Financial Engineering, (Trademark)
Journal Articles
- The Minimal Model of Financial Complexity, Quantitative Finance, forthcoming.
- Prospect Theory and Fat Tails, Risk and Decision Analysis 2009, vol. 1, no. 3, pp.187-195; download PDF.
- Regulation Simulation, European Journal of Finance and Banking Research 2009, vol. 2, no. 2, pp.1-12; download PDF.
- The Hazards of Propping Up: Bubbles and Chaos, International Journal of Business and Finance Research 2009, vol. 3, no. 2, pp.83-93; download PDF.
Authored + Edited Books
Biography
Dr. Phil Maymin is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago, a Master's in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Harvard University.
He is an award-winning journalist, a Policy Scholar for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, a Justice of the Peace, a columnist for the Fairfield County Weekly, and the author of Yankee Wake Up.
He has also been a portfolio manager at Long-Term Capital Management, Ellington Management Group, and his own hedge fund, Maymin Capital Management. He was the 2006 Libertarian candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Connecticut's fourth Congressional district.