Timothy W KochTimothy W. Koch serves as Professor of Finance at the University of South Carolina. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics from Wartburg College and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University. He taught at Baylor University and Texas Tech Universiy before joining the University of South Carolina. In addition to his college teaching role, Dr. Koch serves as President of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado and teaches at several graduate schools for professional bankers throughout the United States. He serves as faculty advisor to the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management at the University of South Carolina. He has taught seminars on risk management to bankers in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Ukraine as part of a U.S. Treasury program to assist private banking in Eastern Europe. Dr. Koch's research and writing focus on bank risk management, performance analysis and improvement, the pricing of financial futures and fixed-income securities, and public finance. He has published in a wide range of academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, National Tax Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Portfolio Management, Municipal Finance Journal, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Dr. Koch has also served as Treasurer of the Financial Management Association and President of the Eastern Finance Association and Southern Finance Association. He has written General Banking curriculum for many state-sponsored banking schools and is a frequently requested seminar leader for the banking industry. Read More Read Less