Finance
Finance
Learn to speak the language of the business world at UCR! The field of finance will develop your analytical and decision-making strengths in the context of coursework that is central to financial management and investments.
Financial Management
The UCR School of Business offers at least three elective courses per year that cover the most important areas of financial management — topics like important financial policy and strategy decisions, corporate governance and control, mergers and acquisitions, and risk management are spread throughout the curriculum.
Investing
We also offer at least three elective courses per year that cover key topics related to investing and investment management — topics like investment decision-making, portfolio management, options and futures, and professional investment management are covered in the standard mix of courses.
Our world-class UCR finance faculty works with leaders in management science, as well as other schools and departments at UCR, to offer a set of courses that is appropriate for those of you who have the analytical background and quantitative orientation to pursue a sequence of courses that can prepare you for financial engineering.
University Affiliation Program
Finance Pathways at UCR School of Business
Resources for Students
UCR Finance Associations
Students practice investment skills acquired in the classroom.
Finance Seminar Series
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2024 - 2025 Finance Seminar Series
Date/Location Presenter Paper Friday, February 21, 2025
Ayako Yasuda | UC Davis What information do informed traders use? Friday, March 7, 2025 Oleg Bondarenko | University of Illinois, Chicago Do Investors Overvalue Startups? Evidence from the Junior Stakes of Mutual Funds Friday, April 25, 2025 Alexander Zentefis | Yale University TBA
Friday, May 9, 2025 Ilona Babenko | Arizona State University Does Better Access to Disclosure Curb CEO Pay? Evidence from a Modern Information Technology Improvement Friday, May 9, 2025 Hyeik Kim| UC Riverside The Hidden Hand against Sustainability: Evidence from Separately Managed Accounts Friday, May 9, 2025 Kenneth R. Ahern | USC The Anatomy Of Concentration: New Evidence From A Unified Framework Friday, May 9, 2025 Jeffery L. Coles | University of Utah How Executive Compensation Changes In Response to Personal Income Tax Shocks (Who Pays the CEO’s Income Taxes?) Friday, May 9, 2025 Doron Levit | University of Washington (Ir)responsible Takeovers Most meetings will be held in person. If you are interested in attending, please contact Finance seminar coordinator Mike Dong.
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2022 - 2023 Finance Seminar Series
Date/Location Presenter Paper Friday, October 7, 2022
ANDHL-021, 10:40 am - 12:00 pmFousseni Chabi-Yo | University of Massachusetts Amherst Conditional Leverage and the Term Structure of Option-Implied Equity Risk Premia Friday, October 28, 2022
ANDHL-121 (new), 2:00 pmJun-Koo Kang | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Profiting from Rival Firms’ Cyberattacks: Evidence from Informed Trading by Insiders with Social Ties Friday, November 11, 2022
ANDHL-021 & Zoom, 2:00 - 3:30 pmAlexander Barinov | UC Riverside School of Business Why is Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings Priced? Friday, December 2, 2022
ANDHL-021, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmThummim Cho | London School of Economics Putting the Price in Asset Pricing
Friday, January 13, 2023
Will be rescheduledReena Aggarwal | Georgetown University Price Discovery from Offer Price to Opening Price of Initial Public Offerings Most meetings will be held in person. If you are interested in attending, please contact Finance seminar coordinator Mike Dong.
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2019 - 2020 Finance Seminar Series
Date/Location Presenter Paper April 17, 2020 Reena Aggarwal TBA April 3, 2020 Jun-Koo Kang TBA March 13, 2020 Ingrid Werner TBA February 21, 2020 Yashar Barardehi TBA January 24, 2020 Zhi Da TBA November 8, 2019 Justin Birru TBA October 11, 2019 Ivalina Kalcheva The Repercussions of Two SEC Rules for Mutual Fund Investors: Evidence from Share Class Flows October 4, 2019 Finance PhD papers September 27, 2019 Sahn-Wook Huh Technology Competition and Informed Trading: Evidence from Weekly Patent Announcements -
2018 - 2019 Finance Seminar Series
Date/Location Presenter Paper May 17, 2019 Juhani Linnainmaa Factor Momentum and the Momentum Factor May 10 2019 Alexander Barinov Firm Complexity and Post Earnings Announcement Drift April 12, 2019 Joey Engelburg Are Cross-Sectional Predictors Good Market-Level Predictors? March 15, 2019 Natasha Burns CEO Turnover: Cross-Country Effects March 1, 2019 Jinfei Sheng Asset Pricing in the Information Age: Employee Expectations and Stock Returns November 9, 2018 He Li Vertical Integration to Mitigate Internal Capital Market Inefficiencies: Theory and Evidence October 15, 2018 Giorgo Sertsios The Going Public Decision of Business Group Firms October 19, 2018 Michael Hertzel Speed Matters: Limited Attention and Supply-Chain Information Diffusion
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2025 Citrus Finance Conference
Corporate Finance
Date: May 9, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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2024 Citrus Finance Conference
Empirical Asset Pricing
Date: May 10, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: UCR Alumni & Visitors Center, 3701 Canyon Crest Dr, Riverside, CA 92521 -
2023 Citrus Finance Conference
Venture Capital and Private Equity Investments
Date: May 12, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Canyon Crest Country Club, 975 Country Club Dr., Riverside, CA 92506 -
2020 Citrus Finance Conference
April 24, 2020 9 AM – 7 PM Canyon Crest Country Club, 975 Country Club Dr., Riverside, CA 92506
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2019 Citrus Finance Conference
International Asset Pricing
May 3, 2019, 9 AM – 7 PM Canyon Crest Country Club, 975 Country Club Dr., Riverside, CA 92506
Jules H. van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania, “Risk Free Interest Rates”Discussant: Zhongjin Lu, University of Georgia
Charles Trzcinka, Indiana University, “Discretionary Trading Halts and Patient Investors”
Discussant: Christopher Schwarz, UC Irvine (20 min)
Mike Dong, UC Riverside, “Global Anomalies”
Sheridan Titman, The University of Texas at Austin, “A Dynamic Model of Characteristic-Based Return Predictability”
Discussant: Mete Kilic, University of Southern California
Robert J. Hodrick, Columbia University, “Taking the Cochrane-Piazzesi Term Structure Model Out of
Sample: More Data, Additional Currencies, and FX Implications”
Discussant: Nina Karnaukh, The Ohio State University
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2018 Citrus Finance Conference
Empirical Asset Pricing
May 4, 2018, 9 AM – 7 PM Canyon Crest Country Club, 975 Country Club Dr., Riverside, CA 92506
Xiaoyan Zhang, Purdue University, “Tracking Retail Investor Activity”
Discussant: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA
Kewei Hou, Ohio State University, The Economics of Value Investing
Discussant: Robert Ready, University of Oregon
Alexander Barinov, UC Riverside, “Firm Complexity and Conglomerates Expected Returns”
Jeffrey Pontiff, Boston College, Analysts and Anomalies
Discussant: David Yang, UC Irvine (20 min)
Wayne Ferson, USC, Holdings‐based Fund Performance Measures: Estimation and Inference
Discussant: Scott Cederburg, University of Arizona (20 min)