Welcome to the 2024 cohort of graduate students! A list of our new PhD students can be found here.
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As a finance PhD student at Chicago Booth, you’ll join a community that encourages you to think independently.
Taking courses at Booth and in the university’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, you will gain a solid foundation in all aspects of economics and finance--from the factors that determine asset prices to how firms and individuals make financial decisions. Following your coursework, you will develop your research in close collaboration with faculty and your fellow students. Reading groups and workshops with faculty, student-led brown-bag seminars, and conferences provide many opportunities to learn from others.
The Finance PhD Program also offers the Joint Program in Financial Economics , which is run by Chicago Booth and the Department of Economics in the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
Chicago Booth finance faculty are leading researchers who also build strong relationships with doctoral students, collaborate on new ideas, and connect students with powerful career opportunities.
Assistant Professor of Finance and Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow, Fama Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Finance and MV Advisors Faculty Fellow
Leo Melamed Professor of Finance
Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Neubauer Family Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago Departments of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business
Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance
Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Kessenich E.P. Faculty Director at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance
AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Assistant Professor of Finance and Cohen and Keenoy Faculty Scholar
Neubauer Family Associate Professor of Finance and Kathryn and Grant Swick Faculty Scholar
Charles P. McQuaid Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Assistant Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Deputy Dean for Faculty and Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance
Myron S. Scholes Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Neubauer Faculty Director of the Davis Center
Associate Professor of Finance
Associate Professor of Finance and FMC Faculty Scholar
Assistant Professor of Finance
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
Graduates of the Stevens Doctoral Program go on to successful careers in prominent institutions of higher learning, leading financial institutions, government, and beyond.
Assistant Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles Shohini Kundu's research lies in financial intermediation and macroeconomics, security design and externalities of financial contracts, and emerging market finance. Her dissertation area is in finance.
Assistant Professor of Business, Finance Division Columbia Business School, Columbia University Jane's research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the real economy and how different types of financial institutions can contribute to financial instability. Her dissertation area is in financial economics.
The pages of Chicago Booth Review regularly highlight the research findings of finance faculty and PhD students.
Chicago Booth’s Eugene F. Fama describes the serendipitous events that led him to Chicago, and into his monumental career in academic finance.
It was a dramatic example of how White House communications on climate policy can affect asset prices, according to Washington University in St. Louis’s William Cassidy, a recent graduate of Booth’s PhD Program.
It’s become harder for many prospective borrowers to access capital. But private debt funds have stepped in to fill the gap, according to Joern Block (Trier University), Booth PhD candidate Young Soo Jang, Booth’s Steve Kaplan, and Trier’s Anna Schulze.
While go-betweens can benefit the broader economy by smoothing the flow of credit, there are now probably too many links in the credit chain, argue Zhiguo He and Jian Li (Booth PhD graduate).
Chicago Booth is home to several interdisciplinary research centers that offer funding for student work, host workshops and conferences, and foster a strong research community.
Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance Tasked with pushing the boundaries of research in finance, the Fama-Miller Center provides institutional structure and support for researchers in the field.
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Bringing together researchers from the entire Chicago economics community, the Becker Friedman Institute fosters novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems.
Center for Research in Security Prices CRSP maintains one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive stock market databases. Since 1963, it has been a valued resource for businesses, government, and scholars.
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets Enhancing the understanding of business and financial market globalization, the Clark Center positions Chicago Booth as a thought leader in the understanding of ever-changing markets and improves financial and economic decision-making around the world.
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State Dedicated to examining issues at the intersection of politics and the economy, the Stigler Center supports research by PhD students and others who are interested in the political, economic, and cultural obstacles to better working markets.
Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation Committed to making the world more equitable and sustainable, the Rustandy Center works to solve complex social and environmental problems. The center’s student support includes fellowships, research funding, and networking opportunities.
For Itzhak Ben-David, PhD ’08, the PhD Program in Finance was an exploratory journey.
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Itzhak Ben-David, ’08: 00:03 For me, the PhD Program was an exploratory journey. It was about discovering what was interesting for me, what will be interesting for other economists. It was about discovering something new about the world. Much of the PhD Program experience is to explore and to wonder a bit and to just think and expose yourself to new ideas and new disciplines. Back then, this was 2006, I found a billboard that said, "If you buy this house, we're going to give you a free car or $20,000 in cash." And this seemed really odd to me. What I realized that was going on, that this was part of a borrower fraud and the idea was that seller and the buyer will agree on a higher price on a house and the lender would be under the impression that the collateral worth more than it really is.
Itzhak Ben-David, ’08: 00:58 So I started to investigate other parts of the real estate food chain. What I saw is that in many parts of this chain, there were incentives in place pushing the intermediaries or the different economic agents to inflate prices. It's not always a bubble, but oftentimes it points out behavior that is not consistent with our textbook behavior. I had the dream team of advisors, Toby Moskowitz, Dick Taylor, Steve Levitt, and Erik Hurst. Each one of them contributed in different way to my dissertation and brought different ideas, brought different aspects. There is no better place of doing research than in Booth. It's really a hub of academic activity. There is no important work that doesn't pass at Chicago before being published. It's really an intellectual home. When you meet people and you know that they are from Booth, you can see the difference in their thinking.
PhD students in finance study a wide range of topics, including the behavior and determinants of security prices, the financing and investment decisions of firms, corporate governance, and the management and regulation of financial institutions. They go on to careers at prestigious institutions, from Yale University to the International Monetary Fund.
Current Students
Rahul Chauhan Ching-Tse Chen Aditya Dhar Mihir Gandhi Huan (Bianca) He Piotr Langer Jessica Li Edoardo Marchesi Rayhan Momin Lauren Mostrom Meichen Qian Francisco Ruela Sixun Tang Hui (Judy) Yue
Booth also offers joint degrees. Learn more about the current students in our Joint Program in Financial Economics .
The Stevens Doctoral Program at Chicago Booth is a full-time program. Students generally complete the majority of coursework and examination requirements within the first two years of studies and begin work on their dissertation during the third year. For details, see General Examination Requirements by Area in the Stevens Program Guidebook below.
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Student - May 21, 2024
By Saxon Stahl, M.S. in Political Analytics Student, School of Professional Studies
Earlier this year, my cohort at the M.S. in Political Analytics program at Columbia University School of Professional Studies (SPS) was offered the opportunity to personally meet representatives from political data firms in their offices in Washington, DC.
During our trip, my Political Analytics classmates and I met experts from the Service Employees International Union, Impact Research, National Media, and OpenLabs, all of which play a central role in important ongoing campaigns across the United States.
Sitting down with key players at these organizations helped us understand the impact of big data on various political endeavors, especially when it comes to electoral campaigns.
We were given insights into how these organizations conduct research to provide their clients with the information they need to make critical decisions in the intensely competitive atmosphere of the current electoral cycle. These included targeting districts for polling and media advertisements, as well as mobilizing residents to vote through canvassing efforts. We also discussed topics such as coalition organizing with data, polling analysis and strategy research, and paid media outreach.
This was a wonderful experience as we were able to interact as a cohort with professionals in the analytics space and get a better sense of the demand for the kind of skills we are acquiring through the program's curriculum. It was great to connect not only with professionals but also with each other as we learned about emerging research in areas that are so fundamental to the process of our democracy.
This trip is one of the many activities in the Political Analytics program that prepare students with the foundational blocks for professional success. I strongly encourage those interested in the field of political analytics to apply so you can take advantage of opportunities offered by the program such as this one.
About the Political Analytics Program
The Columbia University M.S. in Political Analytics program provides students quantitative skills in an explicitly political context, facilitating crosswalk with nontechnical professionals and decision-makers—and empowers students to become decision-makers themselves. The final application deadline is June 1, 2024. The 36-point credit program is available part-time and full-time.
Political Analytics Program Representative
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A list of our new PhD students can be found here. In Memoriam: Lars Tyge Nielsen. It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the death of our colleague and friend, Lars Tyge Nielsen. Nielsen joined the Columbia University Department of Mathematics in 2012 as the Director of the Mathematics of Finance MA Program…(more)
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