PhD Business Administration

Professor Ethan Chiang’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing, portfolio management and performance evaluation, fixed income securities, and financial econometrics. He has published scholarly articles in leading financial economics and asset pricing journals, such as Journal of Finance, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Journal of Empirical Finance. His research has been recognized with best […]

Steven Clark joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 2002 from the University of Virginia where he was a lecturer in the Department of Economics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Alberta. His areas of expertise include securities and derivatives markets, financial risk management, corporate finance, […]

Dr. Craig A. Depken, II joined the Belk College of Business in August 2007. Previous to coming to UNC Charlotte, he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Depken has taught a wide variety of applied economics courses, including econometrics, international economics and industrial organization. He has a […]

Paul Gaggl joined the Belk College of Business after earning his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 2012. His current research concentrates on the distributional effects of technology adoption, particularly concerning the heterogeneous effects on different types of workers and the distribution of income between labor and capital. This includes work on […]

Dr. Yufeng Han joined the Belk College faculty as an associate professor of finance in 2016. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, he served as a faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver and Tulane University. Dr. Han’s primary research interests are empirical asset pricing, investment, mutual funds, and econometrics. He has published in Review […]

Dr. Tao-Hsien “Dolly” King is the Rush S. Dickson Professor of Finance. Since joining the Belk College faculty in 2006, Dr. King has served as Interim Dean of the Belk College, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs and as Chair of the Department of Finance. As a professor, she has taught various finance courses, […]

Chris Kirby is a Professor of Finance and Economics. He joined the faculty of the Belk College of Business in 2011. Before coming to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he held tenured appointments in economics at Clemson University and in finance at the University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Kirby’s research interests include […]

Gene C. Lai is the James J. Harris Chair/Scholar of Risk Management and Insurance of the Department of Finance in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. Professor Lai received his bachelor’s degree in economics from National Chengchi University in Taiwan, his master’s degree in decision science from Georgia State University and his doctoral […]

Hwan Lin joined the Belk College faculty in 1993. He is in the graduate faculty of the Belk College of Business. His research interests encompass technological innovation, economic growth, international trade and finance, and computational economics. His research has been recognized with a Best-Paper Award at the Belk College of Business. He pioneers research into […]

David C. Mauer is the Torrence E. Hemby, Sr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Finance in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. Previously, he was on the finance faculties of the University of Iowa, Texas A&M University, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has won numerous awards […]