Professor Merrick has split his professional career between academia and Wall Street. He worked for six years at Lehman Brothers in fixed income derivatives research, product management, and proprietary trading. He spent five additional years in global fixed income portfolio management and the hedge fund trade advisory business. He came to William and Mary in the Fall of 2005 from Baruch College, where he had spent four years after a second stint on the faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a consultant to the World Bank. He lectures for one week each year at SDA Bocconi in Milan.
Professor Merrick's research agenda has been shaped largely by his experiences on Wall Street. His recent projects have analyzed squeezes in government bond futures markets, the impact of default recovery assumptions on emerging market debt valuation, trading strategies in deposit rate futures markets and the US Treasury’s debt buyback program.
At the Mason School of Business, Professor Merrick teaches both in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. He and Vladimir Atanasov continue to develop the Financial Markets Career Acceleration Module, a course experience where academic and practitioner perspectives peacefully co-exist.
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