A finance student’s education requires meaningful, real-world opportunities, balanced by worthwhile classroom experiences. The David Eccles School of Business Department of Finance faculty are not only committed educators, they’re also seasoned professionals and internationally recognized researchers. When they’re not teaching courses on investment, valuation, corporate finance, real estate, banking, international finance, insurance, or CFA prep courses, they might be participating on federal investigative panels or as an expert witness in a high-profile financial scandal trial or publishing their research in The Wall Street Journal or Forbes.
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Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.
Upcoming Events
Seminar Series
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| Thursday, February 16 (Econ Brown Bag) | Curtis Taylor, Professor of Economics | Duke | 12:00pm in SFEBB 7122 | Advice is Cheap: Information Is Not! |
| Friday, March 2 (Finance Seminar) | John Griffin, Professor of Finance | UT Austin | 10:00am in TBD | Is the Chinese Corporate Anti-Corruption Campaign Genuine? |
| Wednesday, March 7 (Econ Seminar) | Isabelle Brocas, Professor of Economics | USC | 2:30pm in CRCC 205 | Altruism and strategic giving in children and adolescents |
| Friday, March 9 (Finance Seminar) | Kai Li, Professor of Finance | UBC | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Product Market Dynamics and Mergers and Acquisitions: Insights from the USPTO Trademark Data |
| Tuesday, March 27 (Finance Seminar) | Michael Hertzel, Professor of Finance | ASU | 2:45pm in CRCC 115 | Speed Matters: Limited Attention and Supply-Chain Information Diffusion |
| Friday, March 30(Finance Seminar) | Adam Clark-Joseph, Assistant Professor of Finance | UIUC | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Exploratory Tradings |
| Wednesday, April 11 (Econ Seminar) | Andreas Peichl, Professor of Management and Public Finance | University of Munich | 12:30pm in CRCC 205 | TBD |
| Friday, April 13 (Finance Seminar) | Elena Pikulina, Assistant Professor of Finance | UBC | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | TBD |
| Thursday, April 26 (Finance Seminar) | Carolin Pflueger, Assistant Professor of Finance | UBC | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | TBD |
| Monday, August 14 (Finance Brown Bag) | Jason Kotter, Assistant Professor of Finance | Penn State | 11:00am in SFEBB 3106 | Minimum Wage and Corporate Policy |
| Wednesday, August 30 (Econ Seminar) | Dan Barron, Assistant Professor Strategy | Northwestern | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Optimal Contracts with a Risk-Taking Agent |
| Friday, September 1 (Finance Seminar) |
Jonathan Brogaard, Assistant Professor of Finance | U Washington | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Risk and Return in High-Frequency Trading |
| Wednesday, September 6 (Econ Seminar) | Alex Gelber, Assistant Professor Public Policy | UC Berkeley | 2:00pm in CRCC 115 | Using Kinked Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test |
| Tuesday, September 12 (Finance Seminar) | Mike Weisbach, Professor of Finance | OSU | 2:45 pm in CRCC 205 | Price Risk, Production Flexibility, and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Electricity Generating Firms |
| Wednesday, September 13 (Econ Seminar) | Roni Michaely, Professor of Finance | Cornell | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Are U.S. Industries Becoming More Concentrated? |
| Wednesday, September 20 (Strat and Econ Seminar) | Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics | Stanford | 12:45 pm in CRCC 210 | The Great Micro Moderation |
| Friday, September 22 (Finance Seminar) | Denis Sosyura, Associate Professor Finance | ASU | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality: Evidence from Mutual Funds |
| Monday, September 25 (Econ Seminar) |
Mihai Manea, Adjunct Professor | Stanford | 12:45pm in CRCC 110 | Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks |
| Wednesday, September 27 (Econ Seminar) | Brendan Daley, Associate Professor of Economics | Duke | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Bargaining and News |
| Friday, September 29 (Finance Seminar) | Joel Hasbrouck, Professor of Finance | NYU | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | FX trading costs and revenues: evidence from the settlement network |
| Friday, October 6 (Finance Seminar) | Luke Taylor, Assistant Professor of Finance | Wharton | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Portfolio Liquidity and Diversification: Theory and Evidence |
| Wednesday, October 18 (Econ Seminar) | Avidit Acharya, Assistant Professor of Political Science | Stanford | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Searching for Policy Reforms |
| Friday, October 20 (Finance Seminar) | Stefan Zeume, Assistant Professor of Finance | Michigan | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | The Value of Offshore Secrets – Evidence from the Panama Papers |
| Friday, October 20 (Econ Seminar) | Amanda Friedenberg, Associate Professor of Economics | ASU | 3:00pm in CRCC 115 | Incumbency Advantages Revisited |
| Wednesday, October 25 (Econ Seminar) | Ignancio Esponda, Assistant Professor of Economics | UC, Santa Barbara | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | The Industry Supply Function and the Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Firms |
| Friday, October 27 (Finance Seminar) | Espen Eckbo, Professor of Finance | Dartmouth | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Tradeoff Theory and Leverage Dynamics of High-Frequency Debt Issuers |
| Wednesday, November 1 (Econ Seminar) | Sara Lalumia, Associate Professor of Economics | Williams | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Strategic Timing of Charitable Giving |
| Friday, November 3 (Finance Seminar) | Bronson Argyle, Assistant Professor of Finance | BYU | 10:00am in CRCC 115 | Monthly Payment Targeting and the Demand for Maturity |
| Wednesday, November 8 (Econ Seminar) | Dana Foarta, Assistant Professor of Political Economy | Stanford | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Unification versus Separation of Regulatory Institutions |
| Wednesday, November 15 (Strat and Econ Seminar) | Simon Board | UCLA | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | An Inspection Model of Learning in Networks |
| Thursday, November 16 (Finance Seminar) | Tony Cookson, Assistant Professor of Finance | UC Boulder | 2:45pm in CRCC 215 | Some People Say Evasive Language in Corporate Disclosures |
| Wednesday, November 29 (Econ Seminar) | Mehmet Ekmekci, Associate Professor of Economics | Boston College | 12:45pm in CRCC 215 | Costly advice protests and nonbinding voting |
| Friday, December 1 (Econ Seminar) | Caroline Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Oregon | 10:00am in CRCC 215 | Costly advice protests and nonbinding voting |
| Wednesday, December 13 (Econ Seminar) | George Georgiadis, Assistant Professor of Strategy | Kellogg | 12:45pm in CRCC 115 | Optimal Monitoring Design |
| Friday, December 15 (Econ Seminar) | Tim Groseclose, Professor of Economics | Duke | 10:00am in TBD | Bargaining When Only One Player Can Make Proposals |
| Monday, January 23 (Econ Seminar) | David Rahman, Associate Professor of Economics | University of Minnesota | 12:15 pm in CRCC 210 | The Dilemma of the Cypress and the Oak Tree |
| Wednesday, February 15 (Econ Seminar) | Attila Lindner, Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Economics | University College London | 1:00 pm in SFEBB 3106 | Who Pays for the Minimum Wage? |
| Tuesday, February 21
(Finance Seminar) |
Ryan Pratt, Assistant Professor of Finance | BYU | 2:45 pm in CRCC 210 | Comparables Pricing |
| Wednesday, February 22 (Econ Seminar) | Francesco Squintani, Professor of Economics | University of Warwick | 1:00 pm in SFEBB 3106 | Networks and Ideology |
| Tuesday, February 28 (Finance Seminar) | Robert Dittmar, Professor of Finance | Michigan | 2:45 pm in CRCC 210 | Cross-Market and Cross-Firm Effects in Implied Default Probabilities and Recovery Values |
| Friday, March 3 (Finance Seminar) | Renee Adams, Professor of Finance | UNSW | 10:00 am in CRCC 115 | Good News for Some Banks |
| Tuesday, March 7 (Finance Seminar) | John Graham, Professor of Finance | Duke | 2:45 pm in CRCC 210 | CEO Power and Board Dynamics |
| Wednesday, March 8 (Econ Seminar) | Alex Imas, Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences | CMU | 1:00 pm in SFEBB 3106 | The Dynamics of Discrimination: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment |
| Friday, March 10 (Econ Seminar) | Daniel Gottlieb, Assistant Professor of Economics | Washington University | 10:00 am in CRCC 115 | Lapse-Based Insurance |
| Tuesday, March 21 (Finance Seminar) | Charles Jones, Professor of Finance | Columbia | 2:45 pm in CRCC 210 | Tracking Retail Investor Activity |
| Tuesday, March 28 (Finance Seminar) | PK Jain, Professor of Finance | Memphis | 2:45 pm in CRCC 210 | Institution Foresight: Do Institutions Profit from Repurchase Announcements? |
| Wednesday, March 29
(Econ Seminar) |
Takako Fujiwara-Greve, Professor of Economics | Keio University | 1:00 pm in CRCC 210 | Long-term Cooperation and Diverse Behavior Patterns under Voluntary Partnerships |
| Tuesday, April 4
(Finance Brown Bag) |
Shmuel Baruch, Associate Professor of Finance | University of Utah | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | Is Index Trading benign |
| Wednesday, April 5 (Econ Seminar) | Elena Patel, Researcher | US Treasury | 1:00 pm in CRCC 210 | The Long-Run Effects of Paid Family Leave in the U.S.: Evidence from Tax Returns |
| Monday, April 17 (Finance Seminar) | Gordon Phillips, Professor of Finance | Dartmouth | 12:15 pm in CRCC 210 | Product Integration and Merger Success |
| Wednesday, April 19 (Econ Seminar) | Gilles Duranton, Professor of Real Estate | Wharton | 1:00 pm in CRCC 210 | Measuring the cost of congestion in a highly congested city: Bogota |
| Tuesday, April 25 (Finance Seminar) | Giorgio Sertsios, Assistant Professor | Universidad de los Andes | 2:45 pm in CRCC 205 | The effects of business group affiliation: Evidence from firms being “left alone” |
| Tuesday, September 13 (Finance Brown Bag) | Davidson Heath, Assistant Professor of Finance | University of Utah | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | The Value of Trademark Protection: Evidence from the Federal Trademark Dilution Act |
| Wednesday, September 14 (Econ Seminar) | Georgy Egorov, Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Science | Northwestern, Kellogg | 1:00 pm in SFEBB 7122 | Private Politics and Public Regulation |
| Tuesday, September 20 (Finance Brown Bag) | Feng Zhang, Assistant Professor of Finance | University of Utah | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | Vanishing Stock Dividends |
| Wednesday, September 21 (Econ Seminar) | Alex Hirsch, Professor of Political Science | CalTech | 1:00 pm in CRCC 115 | Policy Contests |
| Tuesday, September 27 (Finance Seminar) | Henri Servaes, Professor of Finance | LBS | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | Credit Ratings and Acquisitions |
| Wednesday, September 28 (Econ Seminar) | Jonathan Cohn, Professor of Finance | U of Texas, Austin | 1:00 pm in CRCC 115 | How do employees fare in private equity buyouts? Evidence from workplace safety records |
| Tuesday, October 4 (Finance Seminar) | Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of Finance and Accounting | UC San Diego | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | What’s in a (school) name? Racial discrimination in higher education bond markets |
| Wednesday, October 19 (Econ Seminar) | Jeff Denning, Assistant Professor of Economics | BYU | 1:00 pm in CRCC 105 | Propelled: The Effects of the Pell Grant on Graduation and Earnings |
| Tuesday, November 1 (Finance Seminar) | Christine Parlour, Professor of Finance | UC Berkeley | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | Making Money: Commercial banks, liquidity transformation and the payment system |
| Wednesday, November 2
(Econ Seminar) |
Jin Yeub Kim, Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Nebraska | 1:00 pm in CRCC 115 | A Noncooperative Foundation of the Neutral Bargaining Solution |
| Tuesday, November 8 (Finance Seminar) | Jonathan Karpoff, Professor of Finance | U Washington | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | The Lifecycle Effects of Firm Takeovers |
| Friday, November 11 (Econ Seminar) | Michaela Pagel, Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics | Columbia | 1:00 pm in CRCC 215 | The Liquid Hand-to-Mouth: Evidence from Personal Finance Management Software |
| Wednesday, November 16 (Econ Seminar) | Ed VanWesep, Associate Professor of Finance | U of Colorado, Boulder | 1:00 pm in CRCC 115 | Constrained Asset Prices |
| Tuesday, November 29 (Finance Seminar) | Cesare Fracassi, Assistant Professor of Finance | U of Texas, Austin | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | Is Private Equity Good for Consumers? |
| Wednesday, November 30 (Econ Seminar) | Ronen Gradwohl, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Science | Northwestern, Kellogg | 1:00 pm in CRCC 110 | Privacy in Online Social Networks |
| Tuesday, December 6 (Finance Seminar) | Kenneth Ahern, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics | USC | 2:45pm in CRCC 205 | Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips |
| Wednesday, December 7 (Econ Seminar) | Michael Lovenheim, Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management | Cornell | 1:00 pm in CRCC 110 | How Does For-profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Earnings? |
Beyond the Classroom
We offer finance students many opportunities to become involved in applied learning opportunities.
Finance Club
Student Investment Fund
University Venture Fund
