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Research profile

The Department’s academic activities are divided into three main areas:

  • Corporate finance
  • Financial markets and securities pricing
  • Risk management and insurance.

They comprise a wide spectrum of financial issues, including issues related to risk management and to financial management and corporate finance. Focus in the Department is on the following areas:

  • The financing and financial structure of the company
  • Optimal management of financial institutions
  • Asset Pricing in financial markets
  • Financial restructuring
  • Optimal incentive structures as well as organisational design, based on incentive considerations
  • Alternative types of ownership
  • Corporate governance and the market for corporate control
  • International finance and international financial markets
  • Portfolio theory and asset allocation
  • Risk management and insurance
  • Household financial decisions
  • Pension economics
  • Financial regulation and the legal regulation of financial conditions.

Centre affiliated with the Department:

The Center for Statistics (CST). In January 2004 the Statistics Group was integrated as a centre under the Department of Finance. The Center for Statistics is responsible for research and teaching in probability theory and statistics and the application of these subjects within business economics.


Last updated by Derek Moore 30/03/2009