Finance and Managerial Statistics
Specialization Areas
Finance
- Asset Pricing (empirical asset pricing, derivatives and risk management)
- Corporate Finance
- Market Microstructure and Financial Markets
- Real Estate (real estate investment trusts, credit risk and mortgage-backed securities).
Managerial Statistics
- The program provides students with the ability to customize their training based on their research interests.
Recent Graduate Placements
Finance
- University of Washington St. Louis, postdoc (Zhaoque, Chosen Zhou)
- The University of Washington, Seattle (Lea Stern)
- Lake Forest College (Muris Hazdik)
- The University of St. Thomas (Jeffrey Oxman)
- Michigan Tech. (Hao Qi)
- Providence College (Michael Shafer)
- Radford University (visiting) (Hongyu Song)
- University of Hong Kong (Junbo City Wang)
- SUNY Buffalo (visiting) (Zhongkui Wang)
- Winona State University (visiting) (Insun Yang)
Statistics
- East Carolina State University (Enping Mai)
Finance / Statistics Faculty & Ph.D. Directory
PhD Students
Research Highlights
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Avrenli, Kivanc
- A Kinematic Methodology to Optimize the Landing Trajectory for the Boeing 737 Jet Undergoing Total Loss of Thrust
- Is "Green Dot" Always the Optimum Engines-out Glide Speed on the Airbus
- Assessment of the Engines-out Flight Performance of a Commercial Jet
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Barkley, Thomas
- Corporate Payout Policy and CEO Compensation Structure
- Permanent Sales Increase and Investment
- Teaching an Updated Undergraduate Fixed-Income Course
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Cheng, Si
- Integrating Factor Models
- Machine Learning vs. Economic Restrictions: Evidence from Stock Return Predictability
- Private Company Valuations by Mutual Funds
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Chernobai, Anna
- Business Complexity and Risk Management: Evidence from Operational Risk Events in U.S. Bank Holding Companies
- How do Banking Analysts behave around Unanticipated News? Evidence from Operational Risk Event Announcements
- Operational IT Failures, IT Value-Destruction, and Board-Level IT Governance Changes
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Giambona, Erasmo
- Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition
- Unveiling the Price of Obscenity in the Housing Market: Evidence from Closing Brothels in the Netherlands
- The External Cost of Prostitution: Evidence from Shutting Down Red Light Districts in the Netherlands
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Jens, Candace
- Political Uncertainty and Firm Investment: Project-Level Evidence from M&A Activity
- Political uncertainty and investment: Causal evidence from U.S. gubernatorial elections
- The real effects of delisting: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
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Koveos, Peter
- The Impact of R&D intensity, financial constraints, and dividend payout policy on firm value
- Outward FDI and Entrepreneurship: The Case of China
- Applying an ontology-augmenting XBRL model to accounting information system for business integration
Honors & Leadership
View recent acknowledgments for our faculty research and teaching achievements, Many of our leading-edge faculty play prominent roles in shaping perspectives on relevant professional issues.
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Avrenli, Kivanc
- Faculty of the Year
- Best Faculty & Class Marshal
- Faculty of the Year
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Barkley, Thomas
- Oberwager Award for Outstanding Faculty
- Whitman School of Management Faculty of the Year
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Cheng, Si
- IQ-KAP Research Prize
- Best Paper in Investments
- SGF Best Paper Award
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Chernobai, Anna
- Dean’s Citation For Research
- Textbook Adoption
- Best Paper Award
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Diz, Fernando
- Distress Investing: Book Review
- Use of "Distress Investing: Principles and Technique" in Hedge Fund Investing
- Modern Security Analysis: Book Review
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Giambona, Erasmo
- Pearson Prize for the Best Paper in Financial Management - First Place
- Whitman’s Senior Faculty Research Award
- GRANT -- Lender Center for Social Justice
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Jens, Candace
- Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award for Undergraduate Education, 2021
- Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award for Undergraduate Education, 2016
- Ross Prize for the Best Paper in Finance Research Letters
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Koppl, Roger
- Elinor Ostrom Prize
- Special recognition of my proposal "Cross-lab Redundancy in Forensic Science," submitted to Pioneer's 2015 Better Government Competition.
- Templeton Freedom Award
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Koveos, Peter
- Honorary Doctorate in Commercial Science
- Outstanding Faculty Member
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Pooler Eisenbies, Penelope
- Klaus Hinkelmann Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
- Outstanding Graduate Student Consultant Award
- Ruth Kruger Fellowship for Graduate Study
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Shan, Yu
- FMA Best Paper Award 2021
- Best Paper Award
- FMA Europe Best Paper Award 2019
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Shukla, Ravi
- Runner Up - Innovation in Teaching Award
- Benedict Family Fellow
- Whitman Teaching Fellow
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Sonmez-Leopold, Fatma
- Annual Faculty and Staff Recognition
- The Top 50 Business Undergraduate Professor
- 2019-2020 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award for Early Career Performance
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Velu, Raja
- Chancellor's Excellence Citation Award
- Faculty Fellow
- Faculty Fellow
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Weinbaum, David
- 2016 Whitman faculty teaching award
- Harris Fellow in Finance
- Crowell memorial award
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Xu, Lai
- Dean’s Citation for Research
- Whitman Guttag Jr. Award, 2018
- Best Paper Award