Basma Bekdache
Associate Professor of Teaching in Finance
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Mike Ilitch School of Business
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Detroit, MI 48201
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Biography
Basma is an accomplished Associate Professor of teaching in finance at the Mike Ilitch School of Business, with a distinguished career spanning nearly three decades in academia. Since joining Wayne State’s finance faculty, Basma has held multiple key positions, including Assistant Professor from 2021 to May 2024, Senior Lecturer from 2018 to 2021, and Assistant Professor of Economics from 1995 to 2003. Beyond her teaching responsibilities, Basma maintains active membership in the American Economic Association.
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- Ph.D., Boston College, Economics, with concentration in Finance and Econometrics, 1995
- M.A, University of Toledo, Economics and Applied Econometrics, 1990
- B.B.A , University of Toledo, Finance, 1988
Finance - incl Banking
- Business finance
- International finance
- Business economics
- Monetary economics
- “Term Premia and the Maturity Composition of the Federal Debt: New Evidence From the Term Structure of Interest Rates’’ 2001, Journal of Forecasting, 20 (7), pp. 519-539.
- “The Time-Varying Behavior of Real Interest Rates: A reevaluation of the Recent Evidence” 1999, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14, 171-190.
- “Alternative Approaches to Modeling Time Variation in the Case of the U.S. Real Interest Rate”, 1998, Computational Economics, 11, 41-51.
- “Factor-GARCH Modeling of the Treasury Term Structure”, with Christopher F. Baum, in Computational Approaches to Economic Problems, 1997, edited by H. Amman, B. Rustem, and Andrew Whinston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-16.
- “The Term Structure of Interest Rates: An Empirical Investigation Using Multiprocess Mixture Models” in Advances in Econometrics, 1995, edited by Tom Fomby and R.C. Hill (subvolume titled Bayesian Methods Applied to Time Series Data), JAE Press, pp. 215-48.