Finance PhD Faculty
Alice Bonaime
Associate Professor of Finance
Philip Rhoads Fellow in Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Empirical corporate finance
- Payout policy
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Insider trading
David Brown
Assistant Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Institutional investors
- asset management
- price feedback and price informativeness
- early-stage financing and IPOs
- Taxes and retirement planning
Scott Cederburg
Associate Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Asset pricing (empirical and theoretical): factor models, cross-sectional anomalies, long-run risk, asset allocation, and applied Bayesian econometrics
Kathleen Kahle
Professor of Finance
Thomas C. Moses Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate finance
- Capital structure
- Equity issues and repurchases
- Insider trader
Sandy Klasa
Professor of Finance
Anheuser-Busch Endowed Chair
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Entrepreneurial finance
Richard Sias
Finance Department Head
Professor of Finance
Tyler Family Endowed Chair in Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Investments
- Asset pricing
- Investor behavior
- Valuation
Jayanthi Sunder
Associate Professor of Accounting
Finance Faculty Courtesy Appointment
Areas of Expertise
- Financial reporting and capital markets
- Debt contracting
- Compensation contracting
Ryan Williams
Assistant Professor of Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Product markets
- Corporate hedging