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PhD program in Enconomics
: FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
 


This field is designed to prepare students to deal with theoretical and practical problems in the areas of modern finance relevant to portfolio management, financial management, and capital markets. Included are analytical and empirical approaches to:

  • Consumption and investment decision under uncertainty
  • Portfolio analysis
  • Theories of market equilibrium
  • Dynamic behavior of asset prices in the financial and real sectors and the concept of efficient markets
  • Relationships between the financial and real sectors
  • Normative theory of financial management

Required Course Work

Economics 83000 (Economics of Uncertainty)
Economics 83600 (Theory of Financial Markets)

Other useful courses, offered by the Ph. D. Program in Business at Baruch, include:
Finance 70000 (Introduction to the Theory of Finance)
Finance 75500 (Stochastic Processes in Finance)
Finance 81000 (Corporate Finance Theory)
Finance 81100 (Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance Theory)
Finance 83000 (Capital Markets and Portfolio Theory)

Faculty Members and Areas of Research Interest

Turan Bali (Baruch), Financial Economics
Gayle DeLong (Baruch), Financial Economics
Christos Giannikos (Baruch), Financial Economics
Devra L. Golbe (Hunter), Financial Economics
Norman Kleinberg (Baruch), Mathematical Economics
Alvin Marty (Baruch), Monetary Theory
Ingmar Nyman (Hunter), Corporate Finance
Salih Neftçi (Graduate Center), Financial Economics
Joan Nix (Queens), Finance and Game Theory
Robert Schwartz (Baruch), Security Markets, Financial Economics
Yochanan Shachmurove (City), Financial Economics
Jeffrey Weiss (Baruch), Game Theory
Tao Wang (Queens), Financial Economics, Econometrics
Avner Wolf (Baruch), Financial Econoics
Liuren Wu (Baruch), Financial Economics
Armen Hovakimian (Baruch), Financial Economics
Lin Peng (Baruch), Financial Economics
Archisman Chakraborty (Baruch), Financial Economics
Additional Research Areas

 
Upcoming Applied Economics Seminars
 
Upcoming Health and Labor Seminars
 
 
Contact Information: Ph.D.Program in Economics<br> The Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309 email: economics@gc.cuny.edu Telephone: (212) 817-8255 Fax: (212)817-1514
 

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