PROF. ANTHONY SANDERS

Anthony B. Sanders is  Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the W.P. Carey College of Business of  Arizona State University where he holds the Bob Herberger Arizona Heritage Chair. He has previously taught at University of Chicago (Graduate School of  Business), University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business) and The  Ohio State University (Fisher College of Business). In addition, he served as  Director and Head of Asset-backed and Mortgage-backed Securities Research at Deutsche Bank in New York City.

His research and teaching focuses on investments with particular emphasis on real estate finance and investment. He has published articles in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Housing Economics and other journals. Professor Sanders has received 6 teaching awards and 3 research awards. Professor Sanders serves as Associate Editor for several leading journals. Recently, he has given presentations to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and Exane BNP Paribas in Paris and Geneva on the subject of the housing bubble in the U.S. and the mortgage market. He has given other presentations in Chile, Japan, China, Poland, England and Mexico in recent years.

He has served as a consultant to various firms such as Merrill Lynch, UBS, Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank on the subjects of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). He has served as an expert witness on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, Merrill Lynch, UBS/Paine Webber, Wachovia/First Union Bank and others on the subject of CMOs, CDOs, mortgage derivatives, residential and commercial mortgage origination and underwriting, CMBS default and servicing and subprime mortgage lending.