He received his Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering from University of Ibadan, Nigeria, an MBA in finance at Tulane University in New Orleans, a Master of Arts degree in economics, and his Ph. D. in financial economics from University of New Orleans.

Prof. Onochie has written several articles and publications on various topics concerning finance and economics for magazines such as, The Journal of Futures Markets, Financial Review and The Review of Financial Economics. His current research program includes investigations of the effects of corporate finance decisions on health care institutions. He is active in many professional organizations

Education
BBA, University of Nigeria
MBA, Tulane University
MS,University of Southern Louisiana
MA, PhD, University of New Orleans

Selected Publications
"The Post-Offering Performance of IPOs in the Health Care Industry," Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer 2001), (with Harry Rosen and Hany Guirguis)

"Fractional Dynamics in International Commodity Prices (with John Barkoulas and Walt Labys)", The Journal of Futures Markets, April, 1997.

"A Bivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity-in-Mean Study of the Relationship between Return Variability and Trading Volume in International Futures Markets" (with Michael Jacobs, Jr.), The Journal of Futures Markets, Vol. 18, No. 4, (June 1998), pages 379 - 398.

"A Nonparametric Investigation of the 90-day T-Bill Rate" (with John Barkoulas and Christopher Baum), The Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, (1997) pages 187 - 198.