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.
Degrees in Finance

Department of Finance Faculty
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.
Seminar Series
Check out our upcoming seminars below. Click here to view our past seminars.
Department of Finance
Friday, September 11 | How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI | Wei Jiang, Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Columbia | 9 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, September 18 | In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations | Ralph Koijen, Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, Sept 25 | Monetary Transmission through Bank Balance Sheet Synergies | William Diamond, Assistant Professor of Finance, U Penn | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, Oct 16 | EPS-Sensitivity and Mergers Inelastic Markets Hypothesis | Jarrad Harford, Professor of Business Administration, University of Washington | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, Oct 30 | International Characteristics-Based Asset Pricing | Russ Wermers, Professor of Finance, U Maryland | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, Nov 6 | Don’t Take Their Word For It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds | Lauren Cohen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, Nov 13 | Private Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed Bank Resolution in the Crisis | Song Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, Dec 4 | Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns | Eric So, Associate Professor of Accounting MIT | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
Friday, February 26 | TBA | Dong Lou, Associate Professor of Finance, LSE | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, March 26 | TBA | Tracy Yue Wang, Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, April 2 | TBA | Richard Evans, Associate Professor of Business Administration, U of Virginia | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, April 9 | TBA | Chris Yung, Associate Professor of Commerce, U of Virginia | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, April 16 | TBA | Alon Brav, Professor of Finance, Duke | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, April 23 | TBA | Liyan Yang, Professor of Finance, U of Toronto | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Friday, April 30 | TBA | Holger Mueller, Professor of Finance, NYU | 10 a.m. | ZOOM | |||
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Business Economics Group
Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
Wednesday , Sept. 11 | Place-Based Redistribution | Danny Yagan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Sept. 18 | TBA | Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Sept. 25 | TBA | Lars Lefgren, Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Oct. 2 | TBA | Therese McGuire, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Oct. 16 | TBA | Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Research Director, California Policy Lab, UCLA | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Oct. 23 | Modular Organization | Niko Matouschek, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Oct. 30 | TBA | Craig Garthwaite, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Nov. 6 | TBA | Brendan Epstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Nov. 13 | TBA | Ryan McDevitt, Associate Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Dec. 11 | TBA | Matthew Smith, Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis, US Treasury | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Mar. 4 | TBA | Laurent Bouton, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgetown University | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Mar. 18 | TBA | Julie Mortimer, Professor of Economics, Boston College | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Mar. 25 | TBA | Shai Bernstein, Associate Professor of Finance, Stanford | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Apr. 8 | TBA | Salvatore Nunnari, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Wednesday, Apr. 15 | TBA | Gordon Dahl, Professor of Economics, UCSD | 1-2:30 p.m. | GARFF 3422 |
Beyond the Classroom
We offer finance students many opportunities to become involved in applied learning opportunities.
Finance Club


Student Investment Fund
University Venture Fund

