YAROSLAV PRYTULA, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of International Economic Analysis and Finance
Lviv Ivan Franko National University

1 Universytetska St, Suite 265,

Lviv, Ukraine, 79000

Phone: (+38 0322) 964187

Yaroslav Prytula was a visiting scholar at The George Washington University during the 2003-2004 academic year. His visit was sponsored by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. At GWU he was associated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Professor Robert Dunn was his mentor at GWU.Mr. Prytula was not new to Washington, D.C, or to The George Washington University. In 2001 he came here as a visiting research scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs,The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. From August till December he conducted research in the field of the growth of transition economies. The research was supported by a William and Helen Petrach Scholarship that he won in 2001.

In the summer 2004, he was an intern at NPA Data Services, Inc. in Washington, D.C. There he was engaged in research on micro- and macroeconomics. He worked on data collection, econometric modeling and forecasting.

Mr. Prytula was awarded his PhD in Complex Analysis from Lviv Ivan Franko National University (LIFNU) in 2000. His thesis research was “Asymptotic Behavior of Maximum Modulus and Maximal Term of Dirichlet Series.” Back home in Lviv, Ukraine, he is an associate professor in the Department of International Economic Relations of LIFNU.

In 1997 he received his Specialist’s Diploma with Honors (equivalent of a Master’s Degree). He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of LIFNU. Mr. Prytula has received numerous awards and scholarships. Among them are a George Soros student grant that he won in 1996. One year earlier he won a Pidstrygach Scholarship for the Best Student Article in Mathematics.

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Research interests:

Applications of Mathematics and Statistics – statistical methods in economics and management, mathematical economics, econometrics.
Financial Theory – financial mathematics, financial econometrics, behavioral finance.
Complex Analysis – Dirichlet series theory, analytic functions.
Education Studies – new methods of teaching, distance learning and teaching, university management.

Selected publications:

Prytula Yaroslav and Ardan R., “Does Publicity Influence the Volatility of Financial Assets?” – presented at the XI Global Finance Conference, Las Vegas, April 2004.

Ardan R., Prytula Yaroslav “Influence of Publicity on Conditional Risk,” Visnyk of Kyiv National Univ., v. 17, 2002, pp. 24-28.

Prytula, Yaroslav “Generalization of the Lindelof Theorem,” Abstracts of Short Communications and Poster Sessions of International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, p. 149.

Sheremeta M., and Prytula Yaroslav “Maximum Modulus and Maximal Term of One Class of Dirichlet Series,” Izvestia Vuzov, Math. No. N 2(429), 1998, pp. 77-83.

Prytula, Yaroslav “On the Lindelof Theorem,” Mat. Studii, v. 8(1), 1997, pp. 31-42.

Prytula, Yaroslav “Maximum Modulus and Maximal Term of an Absolutely Convergent in Half-Plain Dirichlet Series,” Bulletin de La Soc. et Lettr. de Lodz. v. 48, 1997, pp. 57-66.

Prytula, Yaroslav “Maximum Modulus and Maximal Term of Entire Dirichlet Series,” Visnyk of Lviv University, v. 43, 1995, pp. 25-30.

Sheremeta M., Prytula Yaroslav, and Fedynjak S. “Growth of Dirichlet Series,” Preprint of the Centre of Mathematical, Modeling of IPPMM NAN, Ukraine, 1995, p. 32.

Yaroslav Prytula, Dragana Cimesa and Stuart Umpleby, “Improving the Performance of Universities in Transitional Economies.”