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My Resume

Educational Background

Stern School of Business, New York University Finance/International Business 1991 PhD
Beijing Language Institute Chinese Language 1977 Certificate
University of Alberta Honors History 1976 BA

Employment History

Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997 to present

Associate Director, MBA Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000 to 2002
Associate Professor of Finance, McMaster University, 1997 to 2001
Assistant Professor of Finance, McMaster University, 1991 to 1996

Lecturer, New York University, 1990 to 1991
Financial Case writer, J.P. Morgan Securities Summer, 1988
Consultant to the World Bank May and June 1987
Manager, China Department, Midland Bank, Hong Kong 1985 to 1987
Assistant VP, Capital Markets, BA Asia, Hong Kong 1982 to 1985
Research Associate, Consulting, BA Asia, Hong Kong 1981 to 1982
Case Writer, Management Center, Dalian University of Technology, China 1980 to 1981

Courses Taught

Planning and Financing Startups (MBA)

Management of Financial Institutions (MBA, MSc and Undergraduate)

Global Finance (MBA and MSc)

Advanced Corporate Finance (MBA)

Cases in Managerial Finance (undergraduate)

Research Methods/International Finance (PhD)

International Business Economics (undergraduate)

Publications: Books and Book Chapters

Hugh Thomas with kevin Au,Louis Leung, Bernard Suen and Sandy Yip Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Hong Kong 2007

Hugh Thomas with He Jia and Zhou Chun Sheng 2006 Asian Banks Competitiveness Rankings English Version Chinese Version

21st Century Business Herald, 2007Hugh Thomwith Kevin Au, Bee Leng Chua and others. Gem Hong Kong and Shenzhen Studies 2002 English, 2002 Chinese, 2003 English, 2003 Chinese, 2004 English , 2004 Chinese, 2006 High Growth Entrepreneurship English and Chinese

Hugh Thomas "The Banking System" in The Hong Kong Financial System (Simon S.M. Ho, R.H. Scott and K A Wong eds) Oxford University Press, 2004.

Anthony Saunders and Hugh Thomas. Financial Institutions Management Second Canadian Edition, McGraw Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 2001 (746 pages) IBSN 0-07-087156-6.

Hugh Thomas Instructors Manual to Accompany Financial Institutions Management Second Canadian Edition, McGraw Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 2001 (290 pages) IBSN 0-07-087157-4

Anthony Saunders and Hugh Thomas. Financial Institutions Management First Canadian Edition, McGraw Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1997. 711 pages. IBSN 0-256-19575-7.

Hugh Thomas and Linda Allen. Instructors Manual and Test Bank to Accompany Financial Institutions Management First Canadian Edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1997. 288 pages IBSN 0-25679577-3.

Hugh Thomas. Comrade Editor, Joint Publishing, Hong Kong, 1979. 243 pages. ISBN 962-04-0070-4.

Articles

Hugh Thomas and Zhiqiang Wang "Interpreting the Internal Ratings-Based Capital Requirements in Basel II" Journal of Banking Regulation 6:3 (2005).

Hugh Thomas and Zhiqiang Wang "The Integration of Bank Syndicated Loan and Junk Bond Markets" Journal of Banking and Finance 28 ( 2004) p 299-329.

Hugh Thomas with researchers from Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Hong Kong and Shenzhen 2003, 2004 and 2005

Hugh Thomas "On Genuine Deregulation" Cato Journal vol 21, no. 2 (Fall 2001) pp 1-11.

Hugh Thomas "Effects of Asset Securitization on Seller Claimants" with tables Journal of Financial Intermediation, 10; pp 306-330 (2001)

Hugh Thomas "A Proposal to Deregulate Banking" The Cato Journal. vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 2000) pp 237-253.

Hugh Thomas "A Preliminary Look at Gains from Asset Securtization" Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money 9 (1999) pp 321-333.

Dean Mountain and Hugh Thomas, "Factor Price Misspecification in Bank Cost Function Estimation" Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money 9:2 (1999), pp. 163-182

M.W. Luke Chan, Anya Khanthavit and Hugh Thomas. "Seasonality and Cultural Influences on Four Asian Stock Markets" Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 13:2 (1997), pp. 1-24.1997.

C. Sherman Cheung and Clarence C. Y. Kwan and Hugh Thomas. "Price Effects of Stock Ownership Restrictions for Foreigners in Emerging Markets" International Business and Finance, 13:1 (1996) pp. 257-265.

Hugh Thomas. "Effects of Firm Ownership Structure on Hiring of M&A Advisors" Journal of Financial Services Research 9 (1995), pp. 159-175.

Itzhak Krinsky and Hugh Thomas. "Savings and Loan Ownership Structure and Expense Preference" Journal of Banking and Finance, 19:1 (April 1995), pp. 165-170.

Anthony Saunders, Hugh Thomas and Ingo Walter. "Scope and Scale Economies Among the World's Largest Banks" in A. Saunders and I. Walter. Universal Banking in America, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.

Hugh Thomas "Seller Selection of M&A Advisors -- a note" Financial Management 22:4 (winter 1993) pp. 17-18.

Hugh Thomas and Ingo Walter. "The Introduction of Universal Banking in Canada" Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, 3:2 (summer 1991), pp. 110-132.

Hugh Thomas and Ingo Walter. "Financial Services" in UNCTC Transnational Corporations Services and the Uruguay Round, United Nations, New York, 1990. pp 111-140.

Linda Sprague and Hugh Thomas. "Lot Sizing Methods in China" Production and Inventory Management (Second Quarter 1985), pp.105-114.

Cases

Hugh Thomas "The Bank of China Hong Kong 's Initial Public Offering" Journal of Financial Education 30 (2004) pp. 87-111.

Hugh Thomas "Taming Manipulative Speculation in Hong Kong Swaps" Case Research Journal 21:1 2001. Winner of the 2000 Curtis E. Tate Jr. award for the for the best case presented at North America Case Research Association's Annual Meeting. Translation into Chinese.

Hugh Thomas "The Bank of East Asia’s Mortgage Loan Securitization" Case plus teaching note. CaseNet® South-Western College Publishing, ISBN 0-324-01664-6, 1999.

Sherman Cheung and Hugh Thomas, "Gennum Corporation" Laurier Institute Case Clearing Centre, winner of the ASAC Wiley best finance case of the year award, 1997.

Hugh Thomas. "The Kalimantan Paper Project" Case Research Journal, 13:1 (winter 1993), pp. 80-105. Included in Primis Pinnacle Database of the 100 most popular cases, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1995 and CaseNet® South-Western College Publishing ISBN 0-324-03272-2.

Hugh Thomas and Ingo Walter. "The Acquisition of Martell" (winner of the 1993 European Case Clearing House Case of the Year Award)in European Casebook on Finance edited by Paul Stonham and Keith Redhead, Prentice Hall, New York, 1995 pp 36-49. Also published in Robert W. White [ed] Case Studies in Modern Corporate Finance Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1994, pp 486-497] and CaseNet® South-Western College Publishing ISBN 0-324-00305-6

Dorothea Bensen and Hugh Thomas. "Eurotunnel (A) Debt and (B) Equity" in European Casebook on Finance edited by Paul Stonham and Keith Redhead Prentice Hall, New York, 1995, pp. 199-243. also in European Case Clearing House.

Roy Smith, Hugh Thomas and Ingo Walter United Mexican States I and II. New York University Salomon Center Case Clearing Center, 1988 and 1990.

Hugh Thomas, Roy C. Smith, Ingo Walter "The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and The British Petroleum Company P.L.C" CaseNet® South-Western College Publishing, 1988 ISBN 0-324-00295-5

Unpublished Work and Work in Process

Hugh Thomas and Zhiqiang Wang The Gains from Securitization (Draft of December 2005)

Hugh Thomas and Zhiqiang Wang "Bank Securitization and Risk Management" Draft of June 2004

Hugh Thomas Exactly What Is Dollarization? August, 1998.

Recent Conference Presentations

Jia He, James Poon and Hugh Thomas "Chinese and Foreign Banking to Foreign Investment Enterprises in South China" (with tables) Presented at the Australasian Banking and Finance Conference in Sydney, December 2002.

Hugh Thomas "Dong Ya Yinhang de Anqie Daikuan Zhengquanhua" (in Chinese published in proceedings) The First Academic Conference of Chinese Business Case Study Dalian University of Technology May 2001.

Hugh Thomas "Effects of Asset Securitization on Seller Claimants" Journal of Financial Intermediation Symposium: Corporate Finance with Blurring Boundaries between Banks and Financial Markets, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, January 2001.

Hugh Thomas "Speculating on Hong Kong Swaps" presented to the Case Research Association annual meeting in Santa Rosa California in October 1999.

Dean C. Mountain and Hugh Thomas "Bank Factors of Production and Cost Tests" presented at the Australian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, December 1998

Hugh Thomas "Banking, Payments and Investments: The Asian Crisis as an Opportunity to Redefine Money" paper presented to The Asia Pacific Issuers & Investors Forum Euromoney conference, Hong Kong, December, 1998.

Current Ongoing Research

"Securitization, Capital Structure and Financial Intermediation" 24 month project funded by Research Grants Committee Ref CUHK 4135/03H 2003- 2005.

"Loan Spreads and Bank Risk Capital" 24 month project funded by Research Grants Committee Ref CUHK 4305/01H 1/12/2001- 30/11/2003.

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