Vinay Datar, PhD

Professor

PhD, Finance, University of Florida
BT, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Phone: 206.296.2801

Office: Pigott 406

Email: vinay@seattleu.edu

Department: Finance

Web Address: http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/vinay

Teaching Areas: Finance, International Business, MBA-Master in Business Administration

In the News:

Vinay Datar's article, "A Practical Method for Valuing Real Options" co-authored with Scott Mathews and Blake Johnson. is forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2007

Vinay Datar's article, co-authored with David Mao and Fiona Robertson, "Hybrid Public Offerings in China: the Case of Class B shares," was accepted for publication in the The International Business & Economics Research Journal.

Vinay Datar's article, co-authored with David Mao, entitled "Initial Public Offerings in China: Why is Under-pricing so Severe?," has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Financial Services Management.

Vinay Datar was granted a joint-patent by the US patent office for a simplified approach to the application of real options for project analysis, valuation and monitoring. The patent is a result of joint work with Scott Mathews, a graduate of our MSF program who is a lead person in Mathematical Modeling and Simulation within Boeing. Scott and Vinay have published the theoretical underpinnings of the patent in a recent article in the Journal of Applied Finance. 

On March 3, 2004 Vinay Datar, Tom Kelley, and John Falvey met with a visiting group of finance officials from around the world, including the Deputy Head of the Croatian Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chief of Economic Analysis of the Bank of Guatemala, and the Director of the International Operations Department of the Reserve Bank of Malawi. The group was sponsored by the World Affairs Council and the objective was to introduce participants to the US financial system and markets. The group's specific focus in Seattle included venture capital firms, community reinvestment, and other types of financial investment models. 

Vinay Datar's article, co-authored with former MSF student Scott Matthews, entitled "A Simple Algorithm for Valuation of Real Options: An Intuitive Alternative to the Black-Scholes Formula," has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Applied Finance. 

Vinay Datar had two research papers accepted for publication at academic journals. The first was co-authored with Dr. Peter Brous and Dr. Omesh Kini and titled,  Is the Market Optimistic about the Future Earnings of Seasoned Equity Offering Firms and was published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol 36, No. 2, 2001.  The other was co-authored with Dr. Richard Borgman of the University of Maine and titled, How Easy is it to Price a Bond? and was published in the Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, Vol XXVI (1),  2000.

In addition, he co-authored a paper with David Mao and Dr. Fiona Robertson titled, Hybrid Public Offerings in China: the Case of Class B shares," that was accepted for presentation at a conference in Amsterdam.