Michael D Atchison 

Associate Dean for the B.S. in Commerce Program
Professor of Commerce

Office phone: 434-924-7093
e-mail: mda8b@virginia.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Finance, Michigan State University
M.B.A., Finance, Michigan State University
B.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University

Areas of Expertise:

Corporate finance and curriculum development.

Professional Activities:

Professor Atchison’s teaching interests are in the areas of corporate finance and general business. His current research is in curriculum development and innovative business education. His most recent article appeared in Journal of the Academy of Business Education. He has developed a new course, “Making Business Work.”

Selected Publications:

"Integrated Core Experience (ICE): Concept, Processes and Outcomes," Journal of the Academy of Business Education, spring 2005 (with L. Hamilton, B. Kehoe, and C. Zeithaml).

"Nonsynchronous Trading and Market Index Autocorrelation," Journal of Finance, March 1987 (with R. Simonds and K. Butler). 

"Disappearing Evidence of Chaos In Security Returns: A Simulation," Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, spring 1996 (with M. White).

"Technobank," Case Studies on Economic Transformation: Russia, Kazakhstan and Eastern Europe, University of Pittsburgh, spring 1997.

"The Valuation of Small or Closely Held Banks," The Journal of Bank Accounting & Auditing, spring 1991 (with R. Kemp and L. Pettit). 

"Creating a More Valuable Bank by Knowing Dynamics of ROE, Sustainable Growth," The Journal of Bank Accounting & Auditing, fall 1990 (with R. Kemp and L. Pettit).