Finance PhD Faculty
Alice Bonaime
Associate Professor of Finance
Philip Rhoads Endowed Professor in Finance
Areas of Expertise
Product Market Competition
Empirical Corporate Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Payout Policy
Share Repurchases
David Brown
Associate Professor of Finance
Brian and Clara Franke Endowed Chair in Finance
Areas of Expertise
Asset management
Early-stage financing and IPOs
Institutional investors
Price feedback and price informativeness
Taxes and retirement planning
Scott Cederburg
Associate Professor of Finance
Thomas C. Moses Endowed Professor in Finance
Areas of Expertise
Asset pricing (empirical and theoretical): factor models, cross-sectional anomalies, long-run risk, asset allocation and applied Bayesian econometrics
Mihai Ion
Assistant Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
Corporate investment, mergers and acquisitions
Empirical asset pricing and factor models
International trade, trade policy
Macro finance, credit cycles
Policy uncertainty
Kathleen Kahle
Ann Griffin Endowed Chair in Finance
Finance Department Head
Areas of Expertise
Capital Structure
Corporate Finance
Equity issues and repurchases
Sandy Klasa
Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
Capital Structure
Corporate Governance
Entrepreneurial Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Andrea Rossi
Assistant Professor of Finance
Sheafe/Neill/Estes Fellow in Finance
Areas of Expertise
Asset management
Corporate insiders
Investor behavior
Private equity
Jason Sandvik
Assistant Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
CEO/Corporate Activism
Corporate Finance
Disclosure Policy
Labor Economics
Richard Sias
Professor of Finance
Tyler Family Endowed Chair in Finance
Areas of Expertise
Asset pricing
Investments
Investor behavior
Valuation
Jayanthi Sunder
Dhaliwal-HSLopez Chair in Accounting
Areas of Expertise
Compensation contracting
Debt contracting
Financial reporting and capital markets
Mitch Towner
Assistant Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
Capital Structure
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Institutional investors
Investor activism
Aazam Virani
Assistant Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Investor activism
Law and finance
Mergers and Acquisitions