Mark Allen Taranto

taranto@mit.edu

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Spring 2001:    15.402-C  Finance Theory II (Corporate Finance)
                        15.402-D  Finance Theory II (Corporate Finance)
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                        Syllabus (Word)
                         TA:  Shyan Wen Lim

                         15.4450   Analytics of Financial Engineering
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                         TA:  Jorge Rodriguez
                        Syllabus (Word)

            Ph.D. in Finance, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2001
            M.B.A., The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC
            Graduate Work in Mathematics & Philosophy, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
            B.S. in Mathematics, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Working Papers:

            Why Managers Are Willing To Accept IPO Underpricing

            Why Investment Banks Underprice IPOs:  Because They Can

            Capital Structure and Dividend Initiations

            The Effects of Capital Structure on Equity Offerings

Selected Prior Work Experience:

            Instructor (Financial Management, Money & Capital Markets),
            Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, 1999-2000

            Vice President, Mortage-Backed Securities Research
           Kidder, Peabody & Co, New York, NY, 1993-1995

            Vice President, Mortage-Backed Securities Research
           Lehman Brothers, New York, NY, 1990-1994

            Associate, Fixed Income Portfolio Strategies
           PaineWebber, New York, NY, 1986-1990