Bernell K. Stone

Harold F. Silver Professor of Finance
Finance, Department of


Office: 626 TNRB
Phone: (801) 422-2295
Email: bks@byu.edu
Office hours: MW 12:30-1:30pm and by appointment
Expertise:
  • Finance
  • Forecasting
  • Information Systems: Strategy
  • Investment management
  • Technology management
  • eBusiness
Research:
  • portfolio theory
  • earnings and return forecasting
  • socially responsible investing
  • cross sectional return anamalies
  • statistical methods in finance &economics: response surface-subsurface methods; observational grouping to control for measurement error, colinearity distortion, and other specification errors
  • Pollution economics
Education:
  • PHD, APPLIED MATHEMATICS, MANAGEMENT, MIT, 1968
  • MS, PHYSICS, UNIV OF WISCONSIN, 1966
  • BS, PHYSICS, DUKE UNIVERSITY, 1964
Group Affiliations:
  • Finance and Economics - Primary
  • Global Management Center - Secondary
Selected Publications:
  • "Cash Flow Management," Handbook of Finance Edition 12, Warren, Gorham, and Lamont, New York, Dennis Logue and James Seidman, 2005    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Cash Flow Management," Edition 5th, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, New York, Dennis E. Logue, October, 2002    
  • "The Components of Short-Term Interest Rates," Volume 4, Elsevier Science Ltd., Y. H. Kim, September, 2002    
  • "The Components of Short-Term Interest Rates," Advances in Working Capital Management Volume IV, Issue 1, Pages 3-50, October, 2001    
  • "Predictability of Short-Term Interest Rates: A Multifactor Model for the Term Structure," Managerial Finance 1998    
  • "The Role of Fundamental Data and Analysts Earnings Breadth, Forecasts, and Revision in the Creation of Efficient Portfolios," Research in Finance 1997    
  • "The Value of Short-Term Cash Flow Forecasting Systems," Advances in Working Capital Management 1996    
  • "Outlier Time Series Models and Analyst Forecasting of GNP and Corporate Earnings Per Share," Applied Financial Economics 1995    
  • "JIT and Risk: Some Critical Thoughts," Advances in Working Capital Management 1995    
Experience:
   Teaching
  • Harold F. Silver Professor of Finance, Brigham Young University, 1986
  • Mills B. Lane Professor of Banking and Finance, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1976-1987
  • Associate Professor of Finance, Cornell University, 1973-1976
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, Cornell University, 1970-1973
   Professional
  • Visiting senior financial economist, SEC (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission), 2003-2004
  • Founding Editor, Journal of Cash Management, 1980-1985
  • Executive Director, National Corporate Cash Management Association, 1980-1984
  • Executive Director, Principal Instructor, Senior Management Banking Institute, 1977-1979
  • President and CEO, Codon Computer Utilities, 1967-1970
Awards:
  • Listed #29 in Top 50 Authors in 7 Leading Finance Journals , J. of Finance Literature, Vol 1 (Winter 2005) , 2005
  • Honorable Mention , Msokowitz Prize Competition , 2002
  • Moskowitz Prize Competition , Conference on Socially Responsible Investing , 2001
  • Competitive Paper Winner , Financial Management Association , 2000
  • Cash Manager of the Year , Cash Management Institute , 1985
  • Competitive Paper Winner , Financial Management Association , 1975
  • Competitive Paper Winner , Financial Management Association , 1974
  • Competitive Paper Winner , Financial Management Association , 1972
Languages:
  • Russian
  • German