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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We’re at the end of an era! After 12 years as Department Chair, Jarrad Harford has decided to step down from this leadership role. Among the most important of Jarrad’s many accomplishments during his time as Department Chair have been building and further strengthening a dynamic and productive group of faculty who excel at both research and in the classroom, and overseeing a sustained development of the doctoral program, tirelessly mentoring and supporting the next generation of thought leaders in finance.

Jarrad is being replaced as Department Chair by Philip Bond, who is eager to continue the department’s upward rise.”

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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 Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA)

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) is published eight times a year (February, March, May, June, August, September, November, and December) by the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in cooperation with the Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business, Boston College Carroll School of Management, HEC Paris, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business, and the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business.

The JFQA publishes theoretical and empirical research in financial economics. Topics include corporate finance, investments, capital and security markets, and quantitative methods of particular relevance to financial researchers.

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