Finance Department

Programs
The Department of Finance offers courses in finance and business economics. The undergraduate program offers a concentration in finance.The MBA program offers a track in financial analysis, which is supported by the Securities Analysis Center. 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 offers a Ph.D. program in finance that focuses on training students to conduct scholarly research and to teach at the college level. Click on the above tab for more information.

Faculty
The department has nine tenure track faculty members, who are actively involved in scholarly research and teaching, and five non-tenure track faculty members. Faculty members serve on the editorial boards of leading academic journals and have won several teaching and research awards. Finance faculty members’ research is published primarily in the leading journals in economics and finance. The finance department has a strong reputation for its research on investment management and corporate finance.

Activities
The finance department hosts a biennial academic conference bringing distinguished national and international scholars to campus to discuss particular themes in finance. On August 5 and 6, 2010, the department will host a conference on topics related to the body of research of Larry Y. Dann, who is retiring after serving more than thirty years on the finance faculty.

During the academic year, the finance department invites faculty members from other universities to present and discuss their current research.  During the summer, the department hosts one or two research scholars from other institutions who visit for a week or two. 

The finance department sponsors the University of Oregon Investment Group, a student-run organization that manages an investment portfolio of $750,000.

Hewlett-Packard Corporation and the finance department co-sponsor an annual M.B.A. case competition in financial analysis.

Research and other activities of the Finance Department are supported in part by the department's Finance Partners and the Securities Analysis Center.