Finance (FIN)

Provides rigorous development at the highest levels of theoretical and empirical research in financial theory and practice, exploring topics within asset pricing, market microstructure, risk management, etc. Please note that this area of specialization requires their doctoral students to complete the graduate-level microeconomics sequence and econometrics sequence at UMD’s Department of Economics. Applicants should have completed the equivalent of three semesters of calculus, a semester of linear algebra, and a semester in differential equations.

FIN Faculty Coordinator: Mark Loewenstein