Sorin Sorescu

Biography

Sorin Sorescu is Professor of Finance at Mays Business School. Prior to joining Mays in 2002, he was Assistant Professor of Finance at the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. He holds a PhD degree in Finance from University of Florida, as well as an MBA and Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Canada. 

Professor Sorescu's research interests focus on active asset management, market efficiency, and market anomalies.  His research appears in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Financial Markets, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 

Professor Sorescu holds the Patricia and Bookman Peters research professorship at Texas A&M. He is the recipient of such research awards as the Financial Management Association Competitive Paper Award, the Mays Faculty Fellowship at Texas A&M University, the Melcher Award for Excellence in Research at University of Houston, and the Bauer Fellowship at University of Houston. Professor Sorescu taught corporate finance, financial markets, and investments analysis at the undergraduate, M.S. MBA, EMBA and Ph.D. levels. He also served as expert witness in two cases and testified in federal court in a case related to stock market manipulations.

Education

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1996

M.B.A., McGill University, 1991

B. Engineering, McGill University, 1989