Finance

Faculty

Deborah Bauer, Peter and Molly Powell teaching professor of Finance (investment strategies, competitive analysis). BS 1997, Bryant; MS, 2001, Oregon. (2001)

Ioannis Branikas, assistant professor (household finance, corporate social responsibility, mutual funds). BA, 2010, MSc, 2012, Athens University of Economics and Business; MA, 2014, PhD, 2018, Princeton. (2018)

Roger Busse, James F. and Shirley J. Rippey Professor of Practice. BA, Reed; MTS, Harvard. (2021)

Maria Chaderina, assistant professor (capital structure, liquidity management, financial intermediation). BS, 2007, London; BS, 2007, Higher School of Economics; PhD, 2013, Carnegie Mellon. (2019)

John Chalmers, Abbott Keller Professor of Finance (household finance, municipal bond markets, mutual funds, retirement behavior, transaction costs); BA, 1985, Middlebury; MS, 1992, PhD, 1995, Rochester. (1996)

Diane Del Guercio, Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Professor in Finance (corporate governance, institutional investors, pension funds and mutual funds); BA, 1986, California, Santa Barbara; MA, 1989, PhD, 1994, Chicago. (1994)

Roberto Gutierrez, associate professor (asset pricing, return anomalies, trading of institutional money managers); Academic Director, Master of Science in Finance Program. BS, 1992, Tulane; PhD, 1999, North Carolina. (2003)

Brandon Julio, Alumni Investment Management Research Scholar, associate professor (corporate investment, international finance, mergers and acquisitions, payout policy, politics and finance, capital structure). BA, 1998, Brigham Young; MS, 2001, South Carolina; MS, 2005, PhD, 2007, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (2014)

Derek Nalle, associate teaching professor (greening economies and investment); Program Manager, Cameron Center for Finance and Securities Analysis. BS Miami University; MS, PhD, Oregon State (2001)

Robert Ready, Doug McKay Research Scholar, associate professor (asset pricing, commodities, international finance, macroeconomics). BA, 2003, Carnegie Mellon; MS, 2008, PhD, 2011, Pennsylvania. (2017)

Garrett Stanford, instructor. BS, 2014, University of Puget Sound; MS, 2020, PhD, 2023, University of Oregon. (2025)

Zhi "Jay" Wang, Alumni Investment Management Research Scholar, associate professor (asset management, institutional investors, market liquidity). Head, Department of Finance; BA, 1994, Peking (Beijing); MS, 1998, PhD, 2000, Iowa State; PhD, 2004, Michigan, Ann Arbor. (2012)

Michael Wismer, instructor (real estate). BA, 1970, MS, 1974, Brigham Young. (1996)

Daniel Wright, instructor. AS, 2001, MBA, 2009, Brigham Young; BS, 2004, University of Utah; MPS, 2018, Cornell University. (2025)  

Youchang Wu, John B. Rogers Research Scholar, associate professor (asset pricing, corporate finance); Coordinator, Finance PhD Program. BS, 1994, MS, 1996, Peking, Beijing; PhD, 2004, Vienna. (2015)

Yuchi Yao, assistant professor(IPO, SPACs, director networks, entrepreneurship, financial networks, financial intermediation, investment banking, Bayesian uncertainty and learning). BS 2014, MS 2016, Nankai University, China; MS, 2018, University of Virginia; MS 2019, PhD 2024, University of Rochester. (2024)

Calvin Zhang, assistant professor (real estate and household finance, housing markets, urban economics, political economy); BA, 2009, Northwestern University; PhD, 2017, UC Berkeley. (2024)

Jane Zhang, assistant professor (household finance, behavioral finance); Bachelor of Management, 2018, Fudan University, China; PhD, 2024, UCLA. (2024)

Emeriti

Larry Dann, professor emerit. BS, 1967, Northwestern; MBA, 1969, Harvard; PhD, 1980, California, Los Angeles. (1977)

Jennifer Ellis, senior instructor I emerit. BA, 1977, MA, 1978, University of Essex; PhD, 1992, Oregon (1997)

Jerome Dasso, professor emerit. BS, 1951, Purdue; MBA, 1952, Michigan; MS, 1960, PhD, 1964, Wisconsin, Madison. (1966)

Wayne Mikkelson, professor emerit. BA, 1974, Macalester; MS, 1978, PhD, 1980, Rochester. (1984)

George Racette, associate professor emerit. BA, 1966, Stanford; MBA, 1967, Michigan; PhD, 1972, Washington. (1974)

The date in parentheses at the end of each entry is the first year on the University of Oregon faculty.

Participating

Glen R. Waddell, professor (applied econometrics, industrial organization, labor economics). See Economics.