Ph.D. Business Administration

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Ph.D. Business Administration-Finance Field of Specialization

Coordinator : Mohammad Najand (mnajand@odu.edu)

Core Faculty for Finance

The following professors work together to provide the very best educational experiences for Ph.D. students in Finance:(See their faculty websites for more information concerning their interests and research.)

·John A. Doukas, Ph.D., New York University

·John M. Griffith, Ph.D. , University of Alabama

·Sylvia C. Hudgins, Ph.D., Virginia Tech

·Mohammad Najand, Ph.D., Syracuse University

·Bruce L. Rubin, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University

·Bruce Seifert, Ph.D., University of Michigan

·Licheng Sun, Ph.D., University of Georgia

·Kenneth Yung, Ph.D., Georgia State University

Finance Curriculum

FIRST YEAR

FALL

BUSN 800 International Business Seminar (3 hrs)
ECON 801 Micro-Economic Theory (3 hrs)
ECON 806 Econometric Theory & Modeling (3 hrs)

SPRING

ECON 807Econometrics II (3 hrs)
MGMT 821 Seminar in International Management (3 hrs)
MKTG 826 Seminar in International Marketing Strategy (3 hrs)

Foreign language requirement must be completed during summer of first year.

SECOND YEAR

FALL

ECON 808 Econometrics III (3 hrs)
FIN 860Seminar in Financial Theory (3 hrs)
FIN 862 Seminar in International Finance (3 hrs)

SPRING

FIN 861Seminar in Investments (3 hrs)
FIN 863Seminar Current Financial Topics (3 hrs)
ECON 852 International Trade (3 hrs)

Note: International Comprehensive Examination to be taken at the end of Spring Semester in the second year of the program.

Field Comprehensive Examination to be taken at the end of the Summer Semester in the second year of the program.

THIRD YEAR

Fall

Fin 864* Directed Reserach Seminar (3 hrs)

*May be taken Fall Semester of second year

Work on dissertation research (total of 18 credits of Fin 899 required to graduate)