Vanderbilt University Law School
William G. Christie
Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 343-7802
Fax: (615) 343-7177
Email: bill.christie@owen.vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 313
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Education
B.S. (Commerce) Queens University
M.B.A. (Finance) University of Chicago
Ph.D. (Finance and Economics) University of Chicago
Biography
By studying the operations of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s, Bill Christie, along with Professor Paul Schultz, concluded that NASDAQ market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research subsequently resulted in a sweeping reform of the NASDAQ market and the introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules. Professor Christie was appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Owen in July 2007. He served as Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management from 2000-2004, and then stepped down to return to teaching and research as the Frances Hampton Curry Professor of Finance. Professor Christie joined the Owen faculty in 1989 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He received the Vanderbilt Chair of Teaching Excellence from 1996 to 1999, and the James A. Webb, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching on three occasions between 1994 and 1998. Professor Christie is a five-time recipient of the EMBA Teaching award and was ranked either first or second among star faculty in each Business Week ranking from 1992 through 2000. He has served on the Business Accreditation Committee of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; on the Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admissions Council; as an Academic Director of the Financial Management Association, and for a three-year term on NASDAQ's Economic Advisory Board. Professor Christie was co-editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation from 1999 through June 2005. He has served as Executive Editor of Financial Management since August 2005. Professors Christie and Schultz won first prize in the 1995 Smith Breeden competition for outstanding papers published in the Journal of Finance. In 2002, the same journal published his article, "NASDAQ Trading Halts: The Impact of Market Mechanisms on Prices, Trading Activity, and Execution Costs" (with Shane Corwin and Jeffrey Harris).
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