Department of Finance

Overview

The Department of Finance offers courses in finance and business economics. The undergraduate program offers a concentration in finance. The Oregon MBA program offers a specialization in finance and securities analysis, which is supported by the Cameron Center for Finance and Securities Analysis. The curriculum focuses on imparting an understanding of the principles that guide financial management, asset management, and general business management. Students master the following skills:

Evaluation of capital investment projects
Valuation of companies, securities and derivative contracts
Measurement and management of risk
Evaluation and formation of investment strategies
Financial forecasting and assessment of financing requirements
Interpretation of financial market prices and interest rates.

The department also oversees the Master of Science in Finance program as well as the PhD program in finance, which focuses on training students to conduct scholarly research and to teach at the college level.

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Recent Research

Robert Ready
Ready, Mark J., and Robert C. Ready. "Order Flows and Financial Investor Impacts in Commodity Futures Markets." Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhac008.
February 2022
Youchang Wu
Gofman, Michael, and Youchang Wu. "Trade Credit and Profitability in Production Networks." Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1: 593-618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.05.054.
January 2022
Youchang Wu
Huang, Chien-Yu, Youchang Wu, Yibai Yang, and Zhijie Zheng. "Monetary Policy in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Vertical R&D Sectors." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3924799.
January 2022
Stephen McKeon
McKeon, Stephen, and Derek Edward Schloss. "Law and Blockchains." In The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, edited by Raghavendra Rau, Robert Wardrop, and Luigi Zingales, 311-335. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65117-6.
September 2021
Stephen McKeon
Benedetti, Hugo, Stephen McKeon, and Cameron Pfiffer. "Blockchain Trading and Exchange." In The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, edited by Raghavendra Rau, Robert Wardrop, and Luigi Zingales, 337-383. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65117-6.
September 2021
Maria Chaderina
Chaderina, Maria, Patrick Weiss, and Josef Zechner. "The Maturity Premium." Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.07.008.
July 2021
Z. Jay Wang
Wang, Z. Jay, and Jingyun Yang. "Cross-Trading and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Municipal Bond Funds." Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2021.101564.
June 2021