Frank Hatheway, Ph.D.

Frank M. Hatheway is chief economist of the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., the world’s largest exchange company, and is responsible for a variety of projects and initiatives to support the markets and improve market structure. Since joining NASDAQ OMX, he has carried out a number of studies on the role of stock markets in the economy, developed NASDAQ’s opening and closing auctions, and advised on major corporate initiative. His current projects include evaluating the impacts of regulatory reform proposals on OTC derivatives and of high frequency trading on equity markets.

Prior to joining NASDAQ OMX, Dr. Hatheway was a finance professor at Penn State University and a researcher in market microstructure. He has authored academic articles in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and other leading finance journals. Dr. Hatheway has served as an economic fellow and senior research scholar with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.