Finance
Finance
Our intellectual roots are based in a long line of scholars from Robert Merton whose collaborative work on risk management and option pricing won him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997, to John Lintner who co-created the Capital Asset Pricing Model and made significant contributions to dividend policy, and Gordon Donaldson whose work helped shape the field of corporate finance. We strive to understand how managers and firms make value-enhancing decisions; and how financial institutions, markets, and instruments contribute to this process. Our approach to research is distinguished by its unique combination of theory, empirical analysis, mathematical modeling, and field observations at companies.
Faculty Unit
The Finance Unit produces research addressing issues of present and future importance to managers, regulators, and policy-makers.
Finance UnitRecent Publications
The Retail Habitat
- October 2025 |
- Article |
- Journal of Financial Economics
Measurement and Effects of Bank Exit Policies
- October 2025 |
- Article |
- Journal of Financial Economics
Dynamic Competition for Sleepy Deposits
- 2025 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Cristina Ventura at White Star Capital
- September 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 2025 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Does Share Repurchase Legalization Really Harm Corporate Investments?
- 2025 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
China's Perilously Imbalanced Economic Success
- September 2025 |
- Article |
- Current History
Flying Solo for the Team: The Grupo Brio Family Office
- September 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Sticky Capital Controls
- September 2025 |
- Article |
- Journal of International Economics
Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?
- September 2025 |
- Article |
- Journal of Accounting Research