Finance Research Interests

The Finance and Managerial Economics faculty research a range of issues, including:

• Financial markets and institutions: Research in this area has ranged from examining changes in the volatility of financial assets and markets over time to the market for new issues of equity or debt.
  Faculty: Alexander Butler, Ted Day, Robert Kieschnick, Kelsey Wei, and Yexiao Xu
  
  
• Investment analysis and performance: Research has ranged from the analysis of dynamic portfolio optimization to the performance of mutual funds.
  Faculty: David Cordell, Ted Day, Valery Polkovnichenko, Kelsey Wei, Yexiao Xu, Harold Zhang, and Feng Zhao
  
  
• Corporate financing and corporate control: Research includes debt maturity choice decisions and influence of corporate governance on corporate performance.
  Faculty: Nina Baranchuk, Alexander Butler, Robert Kieschnick, David Mauer, Michael Rebello, and David Springate
  
  
• Intellectual property and the economics of information goods: Research covers analyses of information markets to the impact of digitization on copyright and intellectual property.
  Faculty : Octavian Carare, Peter Lewin, Stan Liebowitz, Minhua Wan, and Alejandro Zentner