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Meet the scholars who will shape the future of business.
Simon PhD students are analytical, creative, and well-versed in solving complex business problems. There isn’t a conventional Simon candidate; we help each student maximize their own unique potential.
Inside the Simon Finance PhD
Simon’s methodological approach to finance emphasize formal modeling of problems and empirical testing of alternative theories. Explore problems of corporate financial policy, individual consumption-investment choices, and capital market equilibrium in an uncertain environment using principles of price theory, mathematics, and statistics as a basis.
Learn more about our students seeking placements.
Yuchi Yao
Area of Study: Finance
Curriculum vitae
Website
Prior Education
Nankai University, B.S. Economics
Nankai University, M.S. Economics
University of Virginia, M.A. Economics
University of Rochester, M.S. in Finance
Research Interests
IPO, SPACs, Director Networks, Entrepreneurship, Financial Networks, Financial Intermediation, Investment Banking, Bayesian Uncertainty and Learning
Sakif Rahman
Area of Study: Finance
sakif.rahman@simon.rochester.edu
Personal Homepage
https://sites.google.com/view/sakifrahman
Curriculum Vitae
Prior Education
BA in Financial Economics with Honors, University of Rochester
BS in Applied Mathematics, University of Rochester
M.S. in Business Administration (Applied Economics), Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Research Interests
Empirical Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Banking, Experimental Finance