Rebecca Abraham

Dr. Rebecca Abraham is a Finance Professor at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. She earned a doctorate in Business Administration-Finance from the U.S. International University in 1989. After teaching at the National University as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Management Science, Dr. Abraham joined the Farquhar Center of Nova Southeastern University in the Fall of 1989.

She has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels – in corporate finance, investments, portfolio theory, financial management, business strategy and policy, quantitative methods, micro-, and macroeconomics. In recognition of her service to students, she was honored with the first Farquhar Center Award for Teaching Excellence in 2000, and the Teacher of the Year Award from the Huizenga School in 2006.

Dr. Abraham has published extensively. Her publications have appeared in the Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Business and Leadership, International Journal of Finance, Journal of Psychology, Genetic, Social, and Psychology Monographs, and the Leadership and Organization Development Journal. She serves on the Editorial Review Board of Personality and Individual Differences. She authored a book chapter in the Advances in Business and Management Forecasting by Elsevier.

Along with Dr. Robert Trippi, formerly of California State University-Long Beach, she pioneered a methodology for determining implicit interest rates in option prices. Her work has also appeared in the Conference Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute and the Association of Management.