Fred Kaen

Financial management, international finance, corporate finance, corporate governance

PhD, University of Michigan, Finance and International Business

MBA, University of Michigan, Finance

BS, Lehigh University, Economics

Fred R. Kaen received his PhD degree in finance and international business from the University of Michigan in 1972, his MBA from Michigan in 1967 and his undergraduate degree from Lehigh University in 1963. Since 1973, he has been at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire where he is a Professor of Finance and Co-director of the International Private Enterprise Center. He teaches corporate finance, corporate governance and international financial management in the School’s undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA programs. Prior to coming to UNH, Dr. Kaen was a financial analyst with Ford Motor Company and taught at Northeastern University.

Kaen has published extensively in leading academic journals including The American Economic Review, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and The Journal of Monetary Economics. He has written a number of books including Corporate Finance: Theories and Policies for Blackwell Publishers in 1995 and A Blueprint for Corporate Governance: Strategy, Accountability, and the Preservation of Shareholder Value for AMACOM in 2003.

Kaen’s research focuses on international finance, corporate governance and corporate finance. He has presented his research at universities and conferences in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Kaen has been a visiting professor at the University of Oregon, The Norwegian School of Economics and Business (Bergen), the Norwegian School of Management (Oslo), the University of Hamburg and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Administration.

Along with S. Melvin Rines, Kaen directs the Center for International Private Sector Development and Public Policy. The Center is involved in course development and research projects related to corporate governance, privatization, deregulation and the development of public policies supporting the vitality of the private sector.

Personal Homepage

"Post Deregulation Restructurying of the Electric Power Industry: Value Creation or Value Destruction?" (with John Becker-Blease and Lawrence Goldberg), Journal of Regulatory Proceedings

"The Risk of Return Performance of Franchise Portfolios" (with Udo Schlentrich and E.Hachemi Aliouche), 2007 International Franchise Association Annual Conference Proceedings

"Leverage and Profitability in U.S. Manufacturing Industries" in Boersen, Banken und Kapitalmarkte, eds. Wolfgang Bessler, Duncker & Humblot. Berlin.

Kaen, Fred R., Risk Management, Corporate Governance and the Public Corporation

Becker-Blease, John R., Fred R. Kaen, and Hans Baumann, Firm Size, Employees and Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing Industries