Finance Research
The finance faculty is an active research group dedicated to advancing the understanding of financial economics. Many of the faculty have earned international reputations for contributions to their fields. They are officers of prestigious professional organizations, are editors of and serve on editorial boards of leading academic journals, and consult and teach for public and private sector organizations. They are frequent contributors to the leading scholarly journals in finance and economics.
The combined intellectual capital of the Smith School’s 150 full-time and 50 part-time faculty are geared to the forces that are transforming the global economy and business and dedicated to helping our students understand and adapt to change. The Smith School is consistently ranked in the top 15 in the world for faculty research by Businessweek and Financial Times.
Finance Seminar Speakers: Spring 2025
Stay tuned for updates on our spring seminar speakers.
Finance Seminar Speakers: Fall 2024
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 6 | Toni Whited University of Michigan Download paper |
| September 13 | Sharjil Haque Federal Reserve Download paper |
| September 20 | Deeksha Gupta Johns Hopkins University Download paper |
| September 27 | John Shim University of Notre Dame Download paper |
| October 4 | Paymon Khorrami Duke University Download paper |
| October 15 | Charles Nathanson Northwestern University Download paper |
| October 18 | Daniel Garrett University of Pennsylvania Download paper |
| October 25 | Valentin Haddad UCLA Download paper |
| November 8 | Greg Buchak Stanford University Download paper |
| November 22 | Amiyatosh Purnanandam University of Michigan Download paper |
| December 6 | Jaroslav Borovička New York University Download paper |
| December 10 | Scott Baker Northwestern University Download paper |
Finance Seminar Speakers: Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| March 15 | Christian Opp University of Rochester Download paper |
| April 19 | Janet Gao Georgetown University Download paper |
| April 24 | David Autor Massachusetts Institute of Technology Download paper |
| April 26 | Kerry Back Rice University Download paper |
| May 3 | Olivia Kim Harvard Business School Download paper |
| May 17 | Philip Dybvig Washington University in Saint Louis Download paper |
Finance Seminar Speakers: Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| September 7 | Stavros Panageas UCLA Download paper |
| September 15 | Winston Dou University of Pennsylvania |
| September 29 | Dmitiry Muravyev Michigan State University Download paper |
| October 6 | Luigi Zingales University of Chicago Download paper |
| October 18 | Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago Download paper |
| November 17 | Sheridan Titman University of Texas, Austin Download paper |
| December 8 | Lubos Pastor University of Chicago Download paper |
| December 15 | Jason Sockin Cornell University Download paper |
Banking Seminar
October 24, 2024
The Journal of Financial Services Research and the Center for Financial Policy hosted the inaugural Banking Seminar Series at the Ronald Reagan Building, Smith School Suite. The event featured Raghuram G. Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who led the first seminar in the series.
Financial Databases & Software
The Robert H. Smith School of Business provides its faculty and students easy access to the world’s leading online real-time financial data and software. In partnership with the University of Maryland McKeldin Library, the Robert H. Smith School of Business provides its faculty and students with a world-class set of research financial and other business databases, and the software to access them. Thomson Reuters Reuters 3000 Xtra – 62 concurrent accesses Reuters 3000 Xtra is a high-speed, integrated information and transaction service. It gives users a commanding view of the global real-time financial arena and provides a combination of news, information and insight as well as access to the global Reuters trading community. Its integrated price discovery and trading capabilities across all asset classes mean that decisions can be made and executed from a single desktop. Reuters 3000 Xtra reflects Reuters vast experience in global financial markets; functionality is continually upgraded and content enriched. Datastream Advance Thomson Datastream Advance offers you access to the world's largest and most respected financial statistical database. It contains more than two million financial instruments, securities, and indicators for over 175 countries in 60 markets. With up to 50 years of history and over 8,000 different fields, it provides access to over one hundred million time series. Thomson Datastream Advance combines easy-to-use, pre-formatted charts and tabular reports with truly flexible charting to help reveal new insights and relationships. Bloomberg Bloomberg Professional – 6 full function terminals The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service seamlessly integrates real-time and historical information on about 5 million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds. The electronic library also comprises data on almost every publicly traded company and biographies of more than 1 million people. And because everything is provided in single source, information can be accessed, analyzed or archived with just a few keystrokes or clicks. Historical Databases and Retrieval Software Full access is available to members of the University of Maryland community and on the Maryland campus. WRDS We subscribe to the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a web based data service that provides instant access to several research quality financial databases.
Research Articles
Financial institutions should be accounting for climate change, but risk models currently are insufficient for regulators to mandate climate stress testing or capital requirements, Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi said this week, speaking to the Subcommittee
What’s ahead for mortgage rates? There will be movement, says Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi, the question is: How much?
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – With temperatures rising, Maryland Smith’s David Kass is looking to add a little heat to his biannual list of stocks to watch, dropping four of the picks he made in Decembe