Peter Frost

Office: 474

PACCAR Hall

Individuals who call for stronger regulation of futures markets because of well-publicized financial disasters like the bankruptcy of Orange County fail to realize that these markets thrive because they provide an efficient way for companies to reduce risk. Regulations that increase the cost of trading futures could increase risk.

Professor Emeritus of Finance and Business Economics

Education

PhD University of California, Los Angeles (1966)

MA University of California, Los Angeles (1961)

BA Occidental College (1959)

Current Research

Determinants of risk in the stock market

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 1969

Visiting professor at the University of Virginia, 1974

Assistant professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, 1964-1969

Consulting

Gulf Oil Company, capital budgeting manual

Weyerhaeuser, analysis of an investment strategy

Office of the Attorney General, State of Washington, witness on banking regulations

Honors and Awards

U.S. Bank of Washington Faculty Fellow, 1988-1996

Academic Service

Director of the Doctoral Program, 1990-1996

Chairman of the Department of Finance and Business Economics, 1981-1990

Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1987-1989