Biography
Jonathan A. Scott, Ph.D. is a professor of finance and department chair at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the former managing director of the Fox School’s William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund that he founded in 2008.
Dr. Scott also serves as an independent director and chair of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. His current research focuses on community bank funding and risk management with publications in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Venturing, and Financial Review.
Dr. Scott teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and EMBA programs in Philadelphia and Tokyo. He has received numerous teaching awards at the Fox School and Temple, most recently the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award in April, 2008 and the Temple Great Teacher Award in April, 2010.
Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Scott was a senior financial executive at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas during the thrift crisis. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Cincinnati (1972) and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University (1980).
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
FIN 0922 | Honors Investing for the Future | Undergraduate |
FIN 3508 | Fixed Income Modeling and Analysis | Undergraduate |
FIN 5802 | Enterprise Financial Management | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Scott, J.A. (2020). The Federal Home Loan Banks Office of Finance: Governance Challenges within a Cooperative. Federal Home Loan Bank Office of Finance.
Scott, J.A. (2019). “Super Lien” Doesn ’t Mean Super Risk: Money Market Intermediation, Security Interests, Federal Home Loan Bank Lien Protections and Systemic Risk. North Carolina Banking Institute, 23(1). University of North Carolina School of Law Banking Institute. Retrieved from https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1474&context=ncbi.
Scott, J.A. & O'Shields, R.T. (2019). "Super Lien” Doesn’t Mean Super Risk: Money Market Intermediation, Security Interests, Federal Home Loan Bank Lien Protections and Systemic Risk. North Carolina Banking Institute, 23(1). Retrieved from https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1474&context=ncbi.