Finance and Business Economics

Finance and Business Economics

Interim Area Chair: An Yan
Contact: [email protected]

As the Gabelli School's largest academic area, finance and business economics offers an undergraduate major and concentrations as well as several graduate paths: a finance concentration for both the Full-Time Cohort MBA and Professional MBA, an MS in Quantitative Finance, and an MS in Finance. Full-time finance faculty members, listed on this page, are joined by a stellar roster of adjunct instructors drawn from the ranks of New York City's finance experts and senior executives.

In addition to offering a diverse selection of highly rigorous and innovative courses, the finance and business economics area is strongly committed to research, as showcased in its Journal of International Money and Finance, Center for Research in International Finance, and  Center for Research in Contemporary Finance. Its faculty members routinely contribute to top scholarly journals and books — several professors have been ranked among the top 50 most prolific authors in academic journals—and participate in national and international conferences.


Featured Research

Manthos D. Delis, Iftekhar Hasan, and Maria Iosifidi, 2019, “On the effect of business and economic university education on political ideology: An empirical note,” Journal of Business Ethics, 155(3), 809-822. (forthcoming)

Jeffrey A Busse, Lin Tong, Qing Tong, and Zhe Zhang, 2019, “Trading Regularity and Fund Performance,” The Review of Financial Studies. (forthcoming)

Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Liuling Liu, and Haizhi Wang, forthcoming, “Employee Treatment and Contracting with Bank Lenders: An Instrumental Approach for Stakeholder Management,” The Journal of Business Ethics, 1-18. (forthcoming)

Manthos D. Delis, Iftekhar Hasan, and Steven Ongena. forthcoming, “Democracy and Credit,” Journal of Financial Economics. (forthcoming)

Yiwei Fang, Iftekhar Hasan, I., Woon-sau Leung, and Qingwei Wang, forthcoming, “Foreign Ownership, Bank Information Environments, and the International Mobility of Corporate Governance,” Journal of International Business Studies. (forthcoming)

Yihui Wang, and Maureen O'Hara, 2018, “The Execution Quality of Corporate Bonds,” Journal of Financial Economics, 130(2), 308-326. (2018)

Turan G. Bali, Andriy Bodnaruk, Anna Scherbina, and Yi Tang, 2018, “Unusual News Flow and the Cross Section of Stock Returns,” Management Science, 64(9), 3971-4470. (2018)

Iftekhar Hasan, Nada Kobeissi, Liuling Liu, and Haizhi Wang, 2018, “Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Financial Performance: The Mediating Role of Productivity,” Journal of Business Ethics, 149, 671–688. (2018)

Lin Tong, C. Wei Li, and Ashish Tiwar, 2017, “Investment Decisions Under Ambiguity: Evidence from Mutual Fund Investor Behavior,” Management Science, 63(8), 2397-2771. (2017)

Turan G. Bali, Stephen J. Brown, Scott Murray, and Yi Tang, 2017, “A Lottery-Demand-Based Explanation of the Beta Anomaly,” The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52 (6), 2369-2397. (2017)

Turan G. Bali, Robert F. Engle, and Yi Tang, 2017, “Dynamic Conditional Beta Is Alive and Well in the Cross Section of Daily Stock Returns,” Management Science, 63(11), 3760-3779. (2017)

Turan G.Bali, Stephen J. Brown, and Yi Tang, 2017, “Is economic uncertainty priced in the cross-section of stock returns?” Journal of Financial Economics, 126(3), 471-489. (2017)

Manthos D. Delis, Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Iftekhar Hasan, and Fotios Pasiouras, 2017, “The Effect of Board Directors from Countries with Different Genetic Diversity Levels on Corporate Performance,” Management Science, 63(1), 231-249. (2017)

Iftekhar Hasan, Chun Keung Hoi. Qiang Wu, and Hao Zhang, 2017, “Social Capital and Debt Contracting: Evidence from Bank Loans and Public Bonds,” The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52(3), 1017-1047. (2017)

Iftekhar Hasan, Chun-Keung, Qiang Wu, and Hao Zhang, 2017, “Social Capital and Corporate Tax Avoidance,” Journal of Accounting Research, 55(3), 629-669. (2017)