Joshua Spizman is a Professor of Finance and Department Chair at Loyola Marymount University. He joined LMU in 2011 after completing his Ph.D. in finance at Binghamton University. Josh’s research interests are in capital markets, corporate finance, and public finance. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, and The Financial Review.

At LMU, Josh teaches introductory corporate finance, an upper division course covering capital markets, and in the Executive MBA program. Along with his colleague, Dr. Hai Tran, Josh helped to develop a course around using Bloomberg Terminals to conduct equity research.  In 2018, he started the LMU Stock Pitch Competition, an annual event for LMU undergraduate students to practice and build their valuation and presentation skills. As Chair of the CBA Undergraduate Program Committee and led the college to design a new undergraduate business core curriculum that was implemented in fall of 2020. In addition to his duties as Department Chair, he is also the faculty moderator for the Finance Society and Lion Investing Society.