Valeriy Zakamulin

Valeriy Zakamulin is Professor of Finance at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. He holds an MS in Radio Engineering from Novgorod State University (Russia), and both an MS in Economics and Business Administration and a PhD in Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway).

Zakamulin worked for many years as a Research Fellow at the computer science department of the Novgorod State University, developing both computer hardware and software. Since 2006, Zakamulin has been employed by the University of Agder, where he teaches graduate courses in finance. He is a former Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business of the Nord University (Norway), and a former Associate Professor II at the University of Stavanger (Norway).

Zakamulin has published more than 30 articles in various refereed academic and practitioner journals. Examples of such journals are Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, and International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance.

Zakamulin is a frequent speaker on international conferences. He has also served on editorial boards of such economics and finance journals as Open Economic Journal and Journal of Banking and Finance. Currently he serves as a senior editor for the International Journal of Emerging Markets.

Zakamulin is the author of "Market Timing with Moving Averages", a book published by Springer and Palgrave Macmillan. This book is supplied by: (1) interactive web-illustrations;

(2) a series of blog post entitled "Trend Following with Valeriy Zakamulin"; and (3) software packages that allows the user to simulate the returns to different moving average trading rules and to perform both back-tests and forward-tests of the trading rules. For additional information about the book and book resources, please visit the author's web page

http://vzakamulin.weebly.com/the-book.html