Peter R. Crabb
Office: Home:
School of Business 129
Mountain View Drive
Northwest Nazarene University Nampa, Idaho 83686
Nampa, ID 83686 208-463-8388
208-467-8536
fax: 208-467-8440
e-mail:prcrabb@nnu.edu
home page: http://people.nnu.edu/~prcrabb
Current Position
Associate Professor of Finance and
Economics, Northwest Nazarene University, 2000 –
Previous Positions and other
Professional Experience
2003 – Adjunct Faculty, Anderson University, Anderson, IN
2000 – Adjunct Faculty, Ellis University, www.ellis.edu.
1996 – 2000, Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
1994 – 1996, Account Executive Investments. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., Denver, CO.
1988 – 1994, Chief Financial Officer, Premier Sports Group, Inc., Boulder, CO.
1987 – 1988, Assistant Manager - Branch Banking, Signet Bank, Baltimore, MD.
Education
Ph.D., University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR, June, 2000.
Fields of Research: International and Financial Economics.
M.S., University
of Oregon, Eugene, OR, June 1999.
Fields of Research: International Economics and Econometrics.
M.B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, December 1991.
Area of Specialization: Finance
B.A., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, June 1986.
Major: Business Management.
Research
“Economic Freedom and the Success of Microfinance Institutions,” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Volume 13, Number 2.
“Economic Exposure of Microfinance Institutions” MicroBanking Bulletin, No. 16, Spring 2008.
“The Success of Microfinance: What really sustains this poverty relief
effort” Proceedings
of the Free Market Forum, Hillsdale College, 2007.
“A Test of Portfolio Risk in Microfinance Institutions” with Timothy Keller, Faith and Economics, Issue 48, Fall 2006.
"Risk Management by Multinational Corporations: A Test of the Underinvestment Hypothesis", International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, Issue 4, July 2006.
“Are Firms Successful at Selectively Hedging?”, with Greg Brown and David Haushalter, Journal of Business, Volume 79, Issue 6.
“Foreign Exchange Risk Management Practices of Microfinance Institutions”, Journal of Microfinance, Volume 6, Issue 2.
“Managing Financial Risk: The Big and the Small”, the ICFAI Journal of Financial Risk Management, October, 2003.
"Multinational Corporations and Hedging Exchange Rate Exposure" International Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 11, Issue 3.
“Exchange Rates and Investment by Multinational Corporations: A Firm-Level Test of the Imperfect Capital Markets Result.”, Research Papers in Economics, April 2003.
“Grupo Carso: A Case Study in Measuring Economic Risk Exposure”, Social Science Research Network, June 2003.
Books and Related
Publications
Solutions Manual to accompany Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009.
Excel Templates, supplements to Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 6th Editions, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007 - 2009.
Excel Templates, supplements to Investments,
8th Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007 - 2009.
Excel Templates, supplements to Essentials of Investments, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008.
Excel Templates, supplements to Principles
of Corporate Finance, 9th Editions, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006 - 2008.
An Instructor’s Guide to Using McGraw-Hill Interactive FinSims in Corporate Finance Courses, McGraw-Hill / Irwin, January 2006, and Interactive FinSims, with Eric Sandburg, Interactive Learning LLC., McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2006.
Corporate Finance Online, http://www.mhhe.com/business/finance/corpfinonline/, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2004.
Investments Online, http://www.mhhe.com/business/finance/invonline/, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2004.
Finance And Investments Using The Wall Street Journal, McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2003.
Invited Presentations
“Debt is Not a Four-Letter Word” Boise Chamber of Commerce, January 2009.
“The Misery Factor: Is the Economy Really That Bad?” Eagle Chamber of Commerce, August, 2008.
“Economic Conditions Here, There, and Everywhere: This is Not That 70s Show”, Excell-Nampa, June and July 2008.
“The Success of Microfinance: What really sustains this poverty relief effort”, the Free Market Forum: The Role of Markets and Governments in Pursuing the Common Good, Panel Topic: Monetary Policy and the Common Good, at Hillsdale College, September, 2007.
“Economic Freedom and the Success of Microfinance Institutions”, Oxford Fellowship, Northwest Nazarene University, October 2006.
“Technology in the Corporate Finance Classroom: What Works”, McGraw-Hill Symposium on Teaching Finance, Las Vegas, NV, November 2005.
“A Test of Portfolio Risk in Microfinance Institutions”, 20th Annual
Christian Business Faculty Association Conference,
“Virtual Concurrent Credit in Economics”, National
“Fundamentals of Cash Management”,
“Managing Financial Risk: The Big and the Small”, Northwest Nazarene Business Enrichment Series, Nampa, ID, October 2003.
"Multinational Corporations and Hedging Exchange Rate Exposure" Midwest International Economics Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 1999.
2009,
2006,
2004,
2003,
2002,
2001,
1999, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Kleinsorge Research Fellowship.
1999, Graduate School, University of Oregon, Graduate Student Research Award.
1999, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Best Ph.D. Research Paper.
1998, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Kleinsorge Research Fellowship.
Reviews
Reviewer for Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
Reviewer for Review of International Economics
Reviewer for Christian Business Faculty Association National Conference
Reviewer for Microeconomics, 2e, Besanko and Braeutigam
Reviewer for Money & Banking, Ball
Reviewer for Corporate Finance, Smart, Megginson and Gitman.
Reviewer for Financial Markets and Institutions, 5e, Mishkin and Eakins.
Reviewer for International Economics, James Gerber
Professional Memberships
American Economic Association
Association of Christian Economists
Christian Business Faculty Association
Western Finance Association
Courses
Taught
Doctoral Seminar in Finance
Corporate Finance
Money and Financial Institutions
Principles of Microeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Managerial Economics
Econometrics
International Economics
Foreign Currency Risk Exposure
Regional Economic Impact Studies
New Business Development