Dr. Shamila A. Jayasuriya, Ph.D.

Dr. Shamila Jayasuriya is an associate professor of economics at Ohio University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 2003 and has been at Ohio University since then. Her fields of specialization are in international finance and development economics. Her research is in financial economics with a focus on equity markets in emerging market economies. In particular, she has studied several stylized facts on market volatility including asymmetry, volatility clustering, value at risk, and long memory. She has also examined the effect of market liberalization policy on various aspects of the domestic economy. More recently, her research has examined efficient portfolio frontiers and diversification benefits in developing stock markets.

Dr. Jayasuriya’s teaching interests are mainly in the fields of macroeconomics, international economics, and statistics and econometrics. She primarily teaches students in the Master of Financial Economics (MFE) program at Ohio University, but she has offered these courses for undergraduate students as well.