Ph.D.
Henry W. Bloch Missouri Endowed Chair in Financial Services
Chair, Department of Finance
Phone: 816-235-2314 | haysf@umkc.edu
234 Bloch School
Henry W Bloch School of Management
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City MO 64110-2499
Dr. Fred H. Hays is chair of the Department of Finance and the Henry W. Bloch/Missouri Endowed Chair in Financial Services. He has been a Bloch School faculty member since 1977 and previously held the Carl W. Allendoerfer Chair in Banking and Finance from 1984-2011.
Dr. Hays received BBA and MS in Economics degrees from the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He earned a Ph.D. in economics with a minor in finance from the College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where he taught for six years.
His current research interests encompass the efficiency and performance of community banks with special emphasis on multivariate analyses of bank real estate lending during the financial crisis. In the entrepreneurship area, he has investigated artificial neural network models for determining default risk in micro-lending operations.
With additional interests in financial pedagogy, including autopsy studies of bank failures and experiential learning including bank management simulations, Dr. Hays recently conducted multiple research studies on credit union performance.
Professor Hays currently teaches Commercial Bank Management, Management of Financial Intermediaries and Global Financial Markets and Institutions courses at the undergraduate and MBA level, a graduate Economics course and multiple study abroad courses in Europe.
He has published articles in the Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Economics, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, Credit and Financial Management Review, Review of Business and Economic Research, Baylor Business Studies, Texas Business Review, RMA Journal, Journal of Finance and Accountancy, Journal of Case Research in Business and Economics, Research in Business and Economics, Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business and the Journal of Business Cases and Applications among others.
He has also served as a reviewer for academic journals, textbooks and grants. Hays served nine years as editor of the Bank Board Letter and as contributing editor to Bank News. He is a Credit Research Foundation Fellow and has received many awards for outstanding teaching, community service and research including a recent Best Conference Paper award at the Academic and Business Research Institute international meeting.
Dr. Hays was instrumental in leading the effort that resulted in approval of a new Master of Science in Finance program in 2011 and currently serves as director of Bloch School Global Study Abroad programs. He has also been faculty leader for more than 30 study abroad programs in Europe and Asia including programs in London and Paris for almost 20 years.
He served 15 years on the Board of Directors of the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, including multiple terms as Chairman of the Board, Vice Chairman, Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee, and recently served as special advisor to the Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri on the proposed city budget.
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