Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, where he joined the Faculty in 2008. He received a Ph.D. and an MSBA in Finance from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in Saint Louis, a B.S. in Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Bergamo, Italy. Dr. Nardari's primary research interests are in the area of empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics, with a particular focus on return predictability, stochastic volatility, risk-return tradeoffs, the relations between financial markets and the macro-economy, the determinants of trading activity, and the measurement of mutual funds performance. He has published several research papers in leading academic journals such as Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.