Kenneth Ahern, Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Empirical corporate finance, particularly mergers and acquisitions, organizational learning through M&As, influence of product market relations on merger activity and returns.

Contact: (734) 764-3196 or kenahern@umich.edu

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Sreedhar Bharath, Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, banks and financial institutions, credit risk, bankruptcy, accounting quality, factors that drive public companies to go private and how they can be detected even at a company's initial public offering.

Contact: (734) 763-0485 or sbharath@umich.edu   

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Sugato Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise: Corporate finance, game theory, industrial organization.

Contact: (734) 763-9777 or sugato@umich.edu

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Ing-Haw Cheng, Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Financial economics, corporate governance, executive compensation, applied econometrics.

Contact: (734) 647-3732 or ingcheng@umich.edu

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Gautam Kaul, John C. and Sally S. Morley Professor of Finance

Expertise: Asset pricing models, market microstructure time-series behavior of stock and bond prices, effectiveness of trading strategies.

Contact: (734) 764-9594 or kaul@umich.edu

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E. Han Kim, Fred M. Taylor Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Finance and International Business, and Director of the Mitsui Life Financial Research Center and East Asia Management Development Center

Expertise: Corporate governance, labor issues, Asian financial markets and economy, mergers and acquisitions, emerging markets.

Contact: (734) 764-2282 or ehkim@umich.edu

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Xuenan (Erica) Li, Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Corporate governance, capital structure, asset pricing, macroeconomics, corporate investment and financing policies, risk and expected stock returns.

Contact: (734) 936-3248 or xuenanli@umich.edu

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Haitao Li, Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Hedge funds, asset pricing, term structure of interest rates, financial econometrics.

Contact: Contact: (734) 615-5475 or htli@bus.umich.edu

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Francisco Palomino, Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Asset pricing, continuous-time finance, fixed income, macroeconomics, portfolio choice, effects of welfare-maximizing monetary policies on long-term interest rates.

Contact: (734) 615-4178 or fpal@umich.edu

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Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: Corporate finance and investments, risk-management, security issues (IPOs/SEOs), credit risk pricing, banking.

Contact: (734) 764-6886 or amiyatos@umich.edu

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H. Nejat Seyhun, Jerome B. & Eilene M. York Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Finance

Expertise: Backdating of executive options, risk-return trade-off in asset prices, intra-day impact of insider trading, long-run performance of IPOs, managerial overconfidence, Chinese walls and conflicts of interests in securities firms, option pricing, stock market regulation, corporate finance, corporate bankruptcy.

Contact: (734) 763-5463 or nseyhun@umich.edu

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Lu Zhang, Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise: Asset pricing, applied theoretical and empirical, in connection with corporate finance, macroeconomics, capital markets research in accounting. His research applies new classical economics to understand the driving forces behind the cross section of stock returns.

Contact: (734) 615-4854 or zhanglu@bus.umich.edu

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