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 H. Hays has been a Bloch School faculty member since 1977 and has held the Carl W. Allendoerfer Chair in Banking and Finance since 1984. Hays received a BBA and MS in Economics from the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He earned his PhD in Economics with a minor in finance from the College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Hays’ current research interests encompass the efficiency and performance of community banks (those with less than $1 billion in total assets) with special emphasis on multivariate analyses of bank real estate lending and the financial crisis. In the entrepreneurship area, he has examined neural network models for determining default risk in micro-lending operations. He is also interested in pedagogy including financial autopsy studies of bank failures and experiential learning including bank management simulations.
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, and the Journal of Business Cases and Applications among others. He also served nine years as the editor of the Bank Board Letter and as contributing editor of Bank News. Hays is a Credit Research Foundation Fellow.
Hays has received awards for outstanding teaching, community service and research including a recent Best Conference Paper award at the Academic and Business Research Institute meeting. He was on the original development committee that designed the Bloch School’s Executive MBA program and has taught extensively in that program. He currently teaches Commercial Bank Management and Global Financial Markets and Institutions courses at the undergraduate and MBA level, a graduate Economics course as well as study abroad courses.
For 11 years, Hays served as the faculty leader for the People to People International Business program in Europe that included students from colleges and universities in 38 states. His administrative responsibilities include serving as director of Bloch School Study Abroad programs (as well as faculty leader for the London program and supporting faculty for China programs) and finance area coordinator. 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, Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee.
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