George Blazenko
Professor Emeritus, Finance
Burnaby
Room: WMC 3335
Phone: 778.782.4959
Email: blazenko@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae: View
Credentials
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)..Biography
Professor George Blazenko teaches the Financial Management course in the Executive MBA Program. His recent publication, Corporate Leverage and the Distribution of Common Share Returns, is forthcoming in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
Research Interests
Economics of insurance, analysis of corporate contingent claims and option pricing, corporate financial policy and pricing of initial public offerings.Selected Publications
articles and reports
Fu, Y., & Blazenko, G. W. (2017). Normative portfolio theory. International Review of Financial Analysis, 52, 240-251. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.07.002
Blazenko, G., & Yeung, W. H. (2015). Does R & D create or resolve uncertainty? Journal of Risk Finance, 16(5), 536-553. http://doi.org/10.1108/JRF-01-2015-0004
Blazenko, G., Pavlov, A. D., & Yeung, W. H. (2015). Business investment and economic depreciation. Journal of Accounting, Finance and Economics, 5(1), 84-100.
Fu, Y., & Blazenko, G. (2015). The Equity as a Call Option Hypothesis for the Value Premium. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 130(1), 55-70. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2337634
Fu, Y., & Blazenko, G. (2015). Returns for dividend paying and non-dividend paying firms. International Journal of Business and Finance Research, 9(2), 1-15. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2238449
Fu, Y., Blazenko, G., & Eddy-Sumeke, F. (2014). Business profit and consumer price sensitivity. Journal of Business and Economic Management, 2(6), 84-96. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1946921
Blazenko, G. W., & Fu, Y. (2013). Value versus growth in dynamic equity investing. Managerial Finance, 39(3), 272-305. http://doi.org/10.1108/03074351311302809
Blazenko, G. W., Pavlov, A. D., & Eddy-Sumeke, F. (2012). New venture start-ups and technological innovation. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 8(1), 4-35. http://doi.org/10.1108/17439131211201013
Blazenko, G., & Pavlov, A. D. (2010). Investment timing for new business ventures. Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 15(1), 37-68. http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/jef/vol14/iss3/2/
Blazenko, G. W., & Pavlov, A. D. (2010). Value maximizing hurdle rates for R&D investment. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 19(8), 693-717. http://doi.org/10.1080/10438590903003631
Blazenko, G. W., & Pavlov, A. D. (2009). Investment timing for dynamic business expansion. Financial Management, 38(4), 837-860. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-053X.2009.01058.x