University at Albany School of Business

Faculty & Staff Directory

	Name:	Lester Hadsell
	Position:	Visiting Assistant Professor
	Education:	Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1999
	Email:	hadsell@albany.edu
	Personal Webpage	http://www.albany.edu/~hadsell

Contact Information:
Office: BA336 Office Hours: T 12:30 - 1:30 and Th 1:00 - 2:00 Phone: 442-4933
Research Interests & Publications:
Electricity markets Economics and Financial education Regional economic development Electricity Price Volatility and the Marginal Cost of Congestion: An Empirical Study of Peak Hours on the NYISO Market, 2001-2004, Lester Hadsell and Hany A. Shawky,The Energy Journal, Volume 27, No. 2, 2006, Pages 157-180.A TARCH Examination of the Return Volatility-Volume Relationship in Electricity Futures, Lester Hadsell, Applied Financial Economics, Volume 16(12), 2006, pages 893-901. Estimating the Volatility of Wholesale Electricity Spot Prices in the US, Lester Hadsell, Achla Marathe and Hany A. Shawky, The Energy Journal, Volume 25, No. 4. 2004, Pages 23-40. Exploring Values: Three Classroom Exercises for Introductory Economics. Lester Hadsell, American Economist, 49 (2) (2005): 51-59. Bond Pricing: Two Classroom Exercises for Capital Markets Courses. Lester Hadsell, Advances in Financial Education, Fall 2005: 7-24.
Courses:
FIN 300 : Financial Management FIN 375 : Money and Capital Markets FIN 515 : Economic Analysis FIN 604 : Advanced Topics in Finance