Abuaf, Niso Adjunct Professor of Finance Joined Stern 2008 Phone: (212) 998-0300 Email:  nabuaf@stern.nyu.edu Office: KMEC 9-190 44 West Fourth Street Suite 9-190 New York, NY 10012-1126

Education:

• Ph.D., MBA, Financial Economics, University of Chicago, 1985, 1976
• M.S., B.S., Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1974, 1973

Teaches:

• Topics in International Corporate Finance (MBA)

Research Interests:

• Empirical Corporate Finance
• International Finance
• Valuation of Financial Instruments
• Enterprise Risk Management

Business and Teaching Experience:

• Principal, DNA Capital Advisors, 2008-present
• Managing Director and Head of Financial Strategy, Credit Suisse, 2000-2008
• Managing Director and Head of International Financial Strategy, Salomon Smith Barney, 1987-2000
• Vice President and Economist, The Chase Manhattan Bank, 1984-1987
• Lecturer of Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, 1981-1984

Presentations and Publications:

• The Financial Crises of 2007-2009 in a Historical Context, Guest Lecturer, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2009
• Comments on Davos. International Herald Tribune. January 2009
• Reflections on the Current Financial Crisis. Turkish State Television, November 2008
• Turbulence in the Global Markets. Bosphorus University Guest Lecture, May 2008
• David Ricardo and Wall Street. Ulus Community Center, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2007

Various Credit Suisse Internal and Client Presentations, 2000-2008

• Managing Capital Structure Risk and Dynamic Capital Structure Arbitrage
• The Case for Delevering: Theory and Empirical Evidence.
• Revised Valuation Methodologies for Mergers and Acquisitions.
• The Financial Checkup: Drivers of Equity Valuation, Credit Ratings, Capital Structure, Liability Management, Shareholder Return Strategies, and Corporate Governance.
• Conglomerate Discounts: Causes and Remedies - Spin-Offs, Carve-Outs, Splits.
• Valuing Employee Stock Options by Monte Carlo Simulation.
• Managing Foreign-Exchange and Commodity Risks for Private Equity Firms.
• Debt and Equity Issuance Strategies under Various Macroeconomic Scenarios.
• Issuing Converts: Reasons and Stock Price Reaction.
• Dividends and Capital Structure at IPO.

Various Salomon Brothers Publications

• With Amit Solomon, The Industry Cost of Equity, February 1999.
• With colleagues, The CFO Quarterly, 1993 - 1996.
• With S. Mehrish, Issuing Put Bonds Synthetically to Reduce Financing Costs, Feb. 1996.
• With colleagues, Century Bonds - Send a Signal to the Market, November 1995.
• With colleagues, The International Cost of Capital - The Empirical Evidence, Aug. 1995.
• The Executive's Guide to Foreign Exchange Exposure Management, August 1995.
• With colleagues, Issuing Corporate Callable Bonds - The Time Is Right, May 1995.
• With colleagues, Issuing Corporate Put Bonds, July 1994.
• With Eric Lindenberg, Bulletin: 50- and 100- Year Bonds, September 1993.
• The Cost of Capital in Japan and the United States: A Tale of Two Markets, 1990.
• Valuing Average-Price Options. December 1987.

Other Publications

• With Philippe Jorion, Purchasing Power Parity in the Long Run. Journal of Finance, March 1990. This article has received close to 200 academic citations.
• With Stephan Schoess, Foreign Exchange: Transactions in Spot, Forwards, Swaps, Futures, and Options; also Foreign Currency Options. In the Handbook of International Financial Management, Dow Jones-Irwin, 1989.
• Foreign Exchange Options: The Leading Hedge. Midland Corp. Fin. Journal, 1987.
• With Stephan Schoess. Foreign-Exchange Exposure Management. Executive Enterprises Publications Co., 1988.
• The Nature and Management of Foreign Exchange Risk. Midland Corporate Finance Journal, Fall 1986. Reprinted in the International Finance Reader, Kolb Pub., 1991.
• With colleagues, Outlook on Interest- and Exchange Rates, Financial Outlook, Various Issues, Chase Manhattan Bank, September 1984-June 1987.
• The Effects of Monetary and Real Disturbances on the Real Exchange Rate. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Chicago, June 1985.
• The Detection of Arteriosclerosis by Ultrasound. Northwestern University Masters Thesis, August 1974.