Department Information
The Department of Finance in the Eli Broad College of Business has a strong research culture that we believe provides an unusually stimulating environment for doctoral students. The department has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. Our faculty have published extensively in leading finance and economics journals over the past five years including papers appearing in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and many other leading journals. Several of our faculty serve on the editorial boards of important journals, and our faculty are regularly asked to present their research at leading business schools and at major national and international conferences. We have an active seminar series where we bring in well-known researchers from other schools to discuss their recent findings.
The research interests of our faculty cover all of the major areas of finance. This research includes efforts to understand how corporations and financial institutions are organized, how they are financed, how they are governed, and how they compete. Members of our faculty have also devoted considerable effort towards understanding the organization of financial markets and financial trading, investor behavior, and models explaining the behavior of key financial variables (stock returns, interest rates, exchange rates, etc.). One of the goals of our program is to get doctoral students involved in research projects with faculty members at a very early stage, often as soon as they arrive on campus. We encourage potential doctoral applicants to browse the individual web pages of individual faculty members to observe their research interests and specialties.