Peter Ritchken, PhD, professor of banking and finance, is the Mario J. Gabelli Distinguished Professor in Finance. Questions are at the heart of Ritchken’s studies and teachings. What determines prices and volatility in capital markets? How do firms manage market risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, and operational risk? Why should firms use derivatives? In his search for answers, his work includes asset pricing models, pricing interest rate and credit derivatives, modeling volatility, and studying banking regulation.
Ritchken is the author of several textbooks on derivatives. He has served on the editorial board of journals and has published extensively in the risk management and derivatives area in such journals as Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Finance and Mathematical Finance. He has consulted with large investment banks and brokerage firms and has conducted executive education programs in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. In addition, Ritchken is a research scholar for the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland.
Ritchken is the founder and director of the Weatherhead School of Management Master of Science in Management-Finance (MSM-Finance) program. He teaches not only in the Weatherhead MBA, executive MBA, and MSM-Finance programs, but also in the PhD of Finance and Operations Research program. His courses include Risk Management; Derivatives; Fixed Income, Mortgage and Credit Markets; Mathematical Finance; Investment Management; Real Options; and Quantitative Finance.
Ritchken’s awards include the 2014 University Research Award, Weatherhead School of Management and the Weatherhead Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011. He joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 1981 after completing his PhD at Case Western Reserve. He holds an MS from the University of Cape Town.
Initially Appointed: 1981
Education
Teaching Information
Teaching Interests
- Risk Management
- Derivatives
- Fixed Income
- Mortgage and Credit Markets
- Mathematical Finance
- Investment Management
- Real Options
- Quantitative Finance
Courses Taught
- Derivatives and Risk Management
- Managing Risk and Real Options
- Python Programming w Appl in Finance
Office Hours
By Appointment Only
Research Information
Research Interests
- Fixed Income and Term Structure Models
- Risk Management in Financial Markets
- Contingent Claims Valuation
- Real Options
- Risk Management in Supply Chains
- Credit Risk management
- Capital Structure
Awards and Honors
- University Research Award2014Weatherhead School of Management
- WSOM Teaching Excellence Award2011Weatherhead School of Management
External Appointments
- Faculty Advisor, GARP Faculty Director, 2010 - Present
Publications
- Ritchken, P. H., In Elsevier (Ed.)
Black Economic Empowerment Regulation and Risk Incentives (vol. 139, issue 2, pp. 104406) Journal of Economic Control and Dynamics - Ritchken, P. H.
On Buybacks, Dilutions, Dividends and the Pricing of Stock Based Claims (vol. 32, issue 1, pp. 273-308) Elsevier - Ritchken, P. H., Wu, Q.
The Impact of Technology Choice on Capital Structure (vol. 2, pp. 273-305) Springer - Ritchken, P. H., Krishnan, C. , Thomson, J.
On Forecasting Credit Spreads Journal of Financial Intermediation - Ritchken, P. H., (2022).
On Stock Based Loans (issue 100991) Journal of Financial Intermediation - Ritchken, P. H. (2022). In Rama Cont (Ed.)
On Buybacks, Dilutions, Dividends, and the Pricing of Stock-Based Claims (vol. 32, issue 1, pp. 273-308) Mathematical Finance - Ritchken, P. H. (2021).
Reflections on Risk Transmission Across Supply Chains Production and Operations Management - Ritchken, P. H., Wu, Q. (2021). In Wiley (Ed.)
Capacity Investment, Production Flexibility and Capital Structure (vol. 30, issue 12, pp. 4593-4613) Production and Operations Management - Ritchken, P. H., Wu, Q. (2021). In Sridhar Seshadri (Ed.)
Capacity Investment, Production Flexibility, and Capital Structure (vol. 30, issue 12, pp. 4593-4613) Production and Operations Management Journal - Ritchken, P. H. (2021). In N, Secomandi (Ed.)
Reflections on Risk Transmission Across Supply Chains (vol. 30, issue 12, pp. 4590-4592) Wiley: Production and Operations Management (POMS) - Ritchken, P. H., Wu, Q. (2021). In V. Babich, J. Birge, G. Hilary (Ed.)
The Impact of Technology Choice on Capital Structure (vol. Chapter 11, 2 ed.pp. 36) Springer Nature - Babich, V. , Li, H. , Ritchken, P. H., Wang, Y. (2012).
Contracting with Asymmetric Demand Information in Supply Chains (vol. 217, issue 2, pp. 333-341) European Journal of Operational Research - Haubrich, J. , Pennacchi, G. , Ritchken, P. H. (2012).
Inflation Expectations, Real Rates, and Risk Premia: Evidence from Inflation Swaps Review of Financial Studies - Krishnan, C. , Ritchken, P. H., Thomson, J. (2010).
Predicting Credit Spreads (vol. 19, issue 4, pp. 529-563) Journal of Financial Intermediation - Ritchken, P. H., Berndt, A. , Sun, Z. , (2010).
On Correlation and Default Clustering in Credit Markets Review of Financial Studies - Ritchken, P. H. (2010).
On Correlation Effects and Systemic Risk in Credit Markets (vol. 23, issue 1, pp. 2680-2729) Review of Financial Studies - Petkova, R. G., Krishnan, C. , Ritchken, P. H. (2009).
Correlation Risk (vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 353-367) Journal of Empirical Finance - Krishnan, C. , Ritchken, P. H., Thomson, J. (2006).
On Credit Spread Slopes and Predicting Bank Risk (vol. 38, issue 6, pp. 1545-1574) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking - Ritchken, P. H., Duan, J. , Sun, Z. (2006).
Approximating GARCH-Jump models, Jump Diffusion Processes and Option Pricing (pp. 21-52) Mathematical Finance - Krishnan, C. , Ritchken, P. H., Thomson, J. (2005).
Monitoring and Controlling Bank Risk: Does Risky Debt Help? (vol. 60, issue 1, pp. 343-378) Journal of Finance