Finance
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Finance is an applied branch of economics that studies the ways in which individuals, business entities, and other organizations allocate resources over time and make decisions in the presence of the uncertainty. The faculty of the Stanford finance group have wide ranging expertise in all major areas of finance, including:
- Asset pricing: the study of how security prices and interest rates are determined in the market
- Corporate Finance: the study of how corporations raise capital and make investment decisions
The faculty strives to produce a broad range of finance-related research that addresses topics of interest to academic researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. We communicate that research both through scientific journal publications, and through the development of relevant and rigorous MBA and Executive Education programs. We also train and mentor future finance scholars through our PhD program, which is regarded as one of the top finance doctoral programs worldwide.
Faculty

Douglas Abbey, Lecturer
Anat R. Admati, Professor
Jonathan B. Berk, Professor
Jules H. van Binsbergen, Assistant Professor
Robert Daines, Professor (by Courtesy)
Peter M. DeMarzo, Professor
Darrell Duffie, Professor
Steven Grenadier, Professor
John K. Hurley, Lecturer
Joy Ishii, Assistant Professor
Dirk Jenter, Assistant Professor
Robert L. Joss, Professor and Dean
Arthur G. Korteweg, Assistant Professor
Ilan Kremer, Associate Professor
Ian Martin, Assistant Professor
John G. McDonald, Professor
Stefan Nagel, Assistant Professor
Francisco Pérez-González, Assistant Professor
George G.C. Parker, Professor Emeritus
Paul Pfleiderer, Professor
William F. Sharpe, Professor Emeritus
Kennneth J. Singleton, Professor
Ilya A. Strebulaev, Assistant Professor
James C. Van Horne, Professor Emeritus
Bilge Yilmaz, Associate Professor
Jeffrey Zwiebel, Associate Professor
MBA and Sloan Programs
Courses
- MBA and Sloan Elective: Finance
- MBA General Management Perspectives
- MBA General Management Foundations
PhD Program
Courses
Seminars

