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OUR OBJECTIVE

 The objective of the Ph.D. Program in Finance is to produce Ph.D. graduates who can conduct high quality academic research, who can publish their research in high quality academic journals, who can obtain tenure track faculty positions at research universities, who are good teachers, and more generally who are good academics.

2008 Admissions are complete.  The deadline for admission in the fall, 2009 is Feb 1, 2009.

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SOME RECENT GRADUATES

Husayn Shahrur, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2003

Assistant Professor, Bentley College, Waltham, MA

 

Selected Research:

Kale, Jayant, Shahrur, Husayn. "Corporate Capital Structure and the Characteristics of Suppliers and Customers," Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics, 2006.

Husayn Shahrur. "Industry Structure and Horizontal Takeovers: Analysis of Wealth Effects on Rivals, Suppliers, and Corporate Customers," Journal of Financial Economics, 2005.

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Anand Venkateswaran, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2004

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston MA

Selected Research:

“Rank Order Tournaments and Incentive Alignment: The Effect on Firm Performance,” (with J. Kale and E. Reis), forthcoming in the Journal of Finance.

"Analyst Research Portfolios and Forecast Accuracy: Accounting for Endogeneity," (with O. Kini, S. L. Mian, and M. J. Rebello). Under review, Journal of Finance.

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Click Image to see more information Ebru Reis, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2006

Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

 

Selected Research:

“Rank Order Tournaments and Incentive Alignment: The Effect on Firm Performance,” (with J. Kale and A. Venkateswaran), forthcoming in the Journal of Finance.

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