The primary goal of the Ph.D. program is to train our students become high quality academic researchers in Finance. So, a significant part of their program requirements involve pursuing and presenting original research, even during the first years of their study. For a more complete description of typical course schedules and paper requirements, click here.

Our current finance faculty conduct empirical research that can be classified under two broad areas: Corporate Finance and Investments. Topics of research interest include Capital Structure, Payout Policy, Corporate Governance, Voting, Treasury Auctions, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Short-Selling, and Empirical Asset Pricing. The faculty have published articles in leading journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Management Science, Journal of Future Markets, Journal of Empirical Finance, among many others.

Coordinator for Finance: Prof. Murali Jaganathan at muralij@binghamton.edu