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 uncertainty.
The faculty in the finance area have wide-ranging expertise in all major areas of finance, including:
- Asset pricing, or how security prices and interest rates are determined in the market.
- Corporate finance, or how corporations raise capital and make investment decisions.
The faculty strive to produce a broad range of finance-related research that addresses topics of interest to academic researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. We communicate that research both through publication in scientific journals, and through the development of relevant and rigorous Stanford MBA Program and Stanford GSB Executive Education programs. We also train and mentor future finance scholars through our Stanford GSB PhD Program, which is regarded as one of the top finance doctoral programs worldwide.
Recent Publications in Finance
A Q-Theory of Banks
Currency Development through Liquidity Provision
The Political Economy of Geoeconomic Power
Jobs & Placement
Faculty
Anat R. Admati
Robert P. Bartlett
Juliane Begenau
Jonathan B. Berk
Michael Blank
Greg Buchak
John H. Cochrane
Antonio Coppola
Tim de Silva
Peter M. DeMarzo
Darrell Duffie
Steven Grenadier
Zhiguo He
Benjamin Hébert
Robert L. Joss
Naz Koont
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Annamaria Lusardi
Hanno Lustig
Matteo Maggiori
George G.C. Parker
James D. Paron
Paul Pfleiderer
Monika Piazzesi
Joshua D. Rauh
Martin K. Schneider
Myron S. Scholes
Amit Seru
William F. Sharpe
Kenneth J. Singleton
Ilya A. Strebulaev
James C. Van Horne
Vikrant Vig
Jeffrey Zwiebel
Lecturers
Douglas Abbey
Tariq Fancy
Mike Harmon
John K. Hurley
Brian Jacobs
Christopher Mahowald
Kevin Mak
Ana Marshall
James Milligan
Charles Moore
Erik Ragatz
Heiner Schulz
John G. Watson
Recent Insights by Stanford Business
Why the Erosion of Trust Could Shake America’s Economic Stability

Teaching Personal Finance Through Stories Pays Off — With Interest

Trump’s Tariffs Lead Investors to Question the Future of the Dollar
