Finance focuses on the financial structure and problems of corporations and on the organization and operation of markets and financial institutions. It deals with the development and maintenance of sound financial policies, with the organization and behavior of financial markets and investors, and with the influence of public policies on financial markets and on corporate finance. As a scholar in finance, you might examine how conflict of interest affects corporate financial policies, how competitive the NASDAQ trading system is, or how investor psychology affects asset prices in a systematic way. Our finance faculty offers strong support for such explorations of market microstructure, corporate finance, and asset pricing. The finance faculty has broad interests, and students can develop analytic or empirical interests under their guidance.

Faculty: Warren B. Bailey, Ola Bengtsson, Harold Bierman, Jr., Julia D'Souza, Yaniv Grinstein, Jerome E. Hass, Ming Huang, Robert A. Jarrow, Mark Leary, Charles Lee, Roni Michaely, Maureen O'Hara, Gideon Saar, Bhaskaran Swaminathan, David Weinbaum, Xiaoyan Zhang
Selected Journals: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies

Recent finance dissertations and places of first employment:

"Essays on Initial Public Offering Underwriting," Katrina Ellis, Australian Graduate School of Management

"On the Information Content of the Order Flow," Gideon Saar, New York University

"Essays on Corporate Repurchase Policy," Gustavo Grullon, Rice University

"Do Brokerage Analysts' Recommendations Have Investment Value?," Kent Womack, Dartmouth College