Ph.D.
Carl W. Allendoerfer Chair in Banking and Finance
Phone: 816-235-2314 | haysf@umkc.edu
234 Bloch School
Henry W Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City MO 64110-2499
Fred Hays has held the Carl W. Allendoerfer Chair in Banking and Finance since 1984. Hays received a B.B.A. and M.S. in Economics from the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He received a Ph.D. with a major in Economics and a minor in Finance from the College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Hays’ current research interests encompass the efficiency and performance of community banks (those with less than $1 billion in total assets). He has also recently investigated the financial performance of minority-owned banks (African American, Asian, Hispanic and Native American owned banks). In the entrepreneurship area, he has examined models for determining default risk in micro-lending operations.
Hays is a Credit Research Foundation Fellow. 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, and the Risk Management Association Journal, among others. He also served nine years as the editor of the Bank Board Letter and as contributing editor of Bank News.
He has received awards for outstanding teaching, community service and research presentations. He was on the original development committee that designed the Bloch School’s Executive MBA program and has taught in that program every year since its inception. For 11 years he was the faculty leader for the People to People International Business program in Europe that included students from colleges and universities in 38 states. He is involved in the current Bloch School Study Abroad program. 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.
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