Dr. Oscar Varela is the Charles R. and Dorothy S. Carter Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at El Paso. He was previously at the University of New Orleans, where he is an Emeritus Professor of Finance, and at Colorado State University. His Ph.D. in Finance is from the University of Alabama. Dr. Varela, a Chartered Financial Analyst, has research interests in international finance, corporate finance and investments. He has authored two recently published books, "Financial Analysis, Corporate Valuation and Capital Formation", and "International Finance in the World", and with numerous articles in academic journals, was identified as a "Prolific Author in Finance" in Heck and Cooley's list of "most prolific authors in the finance literature: 1959-2008" that includes "a small minority of thousands of authors" during this period. In his career, Dr. Varela has received many outstanding teaching and research awards from his universities and at professional conferences.

• Ph D in Finance, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (1981)
• MA in Finance, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (1980)
• MA in Economics, University of New Orleans (1974)
• BS in Economics, University of New Orleans (1971)

• The Seen and the Unseen: Economics and Opportunity Costs Alfagramas Ediciones III Chapter 9 (2019), Oscar Varela.
• The Effects of Lines of Credit on Market Timing and the Underpricing of Seasoned Equity Offerings Review of Accounting and Finance 18 1 (2019), Anh D. Ngo, Oscar Varela, Feixue Xie.
• Competition and Exposure of Returns to the C-CAPM Studies in Economics and Finance 35 4 (2018), Hussein Abdoh, Oscar Varela.
• Product Market Competition, Cash Flow and Corporate Investments Managerial Finance 44 2 (2018), Hussein Abdoh, Oscar Varela.
• "'Agency Costs" When Agents Perform Better than Owners Finance Research Letters 23 (2017), Oscar Varela.

• The Effects of Lines of Credit on Market Timing and the Underpricing of Seasoned Equity Offerings (2018), Volume San Diego, CA, Anh D. Ngo, Oscar Varela, Feixue Xie.
• Product Market Competition and the Exposure of Assets' Return to Movements in Aggregate Consumption (2016), Volume Las Vegas, NV, Hussein Abdoh, Oscar Varela.
• Product Market Competition, Idiosyncratic Volatility and Systematic Risk (2016), Volume Las Vegas, NV, Hussein Abdoh, Oscar Varela.
• Product Market Competition and Corporate Investments (2015), Volume Florida, Hussein A. Abdoh, Oscar Varela.
• Product Market Competition, Systematic and Unsystematic Risks (2015), Volume Florida, Hussein A. Abdoh, Oscar Varela.

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