Department of Finance and Business Economics

The Finance and Business Economics Department at the University of Washington Foster School of Business is a collegial group of thought leaders based in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. Our faculty actively engage with business leaders and students to develop and share new insights that span the areas of Asset Pricing and Investments, Corporate Finance and Governance, Fintech, Household and Behavioral Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Small and Minority Business Economics, and Machine Learning applications in finance.

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Congratulations to Professor Doron Levit for receiving the prestigious Brattle Group First Prize in Corporate Finance for 2024.
The Department of Finance and Business Economics is delighted to announce that Professor Doron Levit has been awarded First Prize in the Brattle Group Prizes of Corporate Finance at the American Finance Association Annual Meeting, which took place on January 3-5, 2025, in San Francisco, California. Doron shares the award with his co-authors Nadya Malenko and Ernst Maug for their article “Trading and Shareholder Democracy,” published in the Journal of Finance in February, 2024.

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The Finance and Business Economics Department is pleased to offer a new special topics course named

“The Startup Nation: Understanding Israel’s Exceptional Innovation.”

The course (Fin 490 C: SLN: 22041: Winter 2025 — meets TTh, 1:30-3:20pm) will examine the history and cultural aspects of the country’s unique economic development, focusing on the lessons learned from Israel’s success and innovation, and how those lessons learned might be extended to other nations in the region.

This course is open to all matriculated undergraduate students. For more information, see here or contact the instructor at [email protected].

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