Finance
Academic Areas
The Finance area at Haskayne aims to be a leading centre for research and teaching excellence. Our objective is to conduct innovative and impactful theoretical and empirical research and to bring the latest finance knowledge and skills to graduate and undergraduate students.
Our faculty regularly publishes in top finance, economics, and business journals. Through our regular seminar series, we invite finance scholars from around the world to present their recent research. We also contribute to financial research through the training of PhD students who then become faculty members at other academic institutions or become practitioners in the finance industry.
Our teaching approach mixes theory, case analysis, experiential learning and mentorship for students who participate in competitions and industry visits across Canada and internationally. Some of our unique experiential learning opportunities include instruction in the N. Murray Edwards Trading and Finance Lab, a hands-on Trading and Market Data Management course where undergraduate students learn to access data feeds, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) course where students learn an emerging financial technology, our student managed investment portfolio, the Calgary Portfolio Management Trust and the first university-based private equity fund managed for students by students in Western Canada, the UCeed Haskayne Student Fund.
Full-time faculty
Megan Bailey
Assistant professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Energy and Climate Change Policy, Innovation
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Kanwal Bokhari
Assistant Professor (teaching)
Area of expertise:
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Kyoung Jin Choi
Associate Professor, Area Chair - FNCE, Research Fellowship in FNCE
Area of expertise: Investments, Dynamic contracting, Real options, Portfolio choices, Fintech
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Alexander David
Professor, David E. Mitchell Professorship in Mgmt
Area of expertise: Asset Pricing, Credit Risk, Derivatives, Bayesian Learning models, Energy Finance, Systemic Risk
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Thomas Holloway
Associate Professor (Teaching), Faculty Advisor - CPMT
Area of expertise: Investment Management, Fixed Income, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance. Fintech, Tactical Asset Allocation
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Yrjo Koskinen
Professor
Area of expertise: Sustainable Finance, Energy Transition, Corporate Finance and Governance
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Alfred Lehar
Professor, Research Professorship in FNCE
Area of expertise: Banking, Corporate Finance, Fintech, Crypto-Currencies
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Pablo Moran
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Corporate Finance; Mergers, Corporate Takeovers and Restructuring; Securities Offerings; Investment Banking; Real Options
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Mahamadi Ouoba
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Empirical Asset Pricing, Sustainable Finance
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Steven Paget
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
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Miguel Palacios
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Labor and Finance, Asset-pricing, Education Finance
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Ari Pandes
Associate Dean, Graduate and Professional Programs, Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Corporate Finance, with specific interests in Securities Offerings, Investment Banking, and Financing Decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance; Law and Finance
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Marius Zoican
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Decentralized finance, Market structure, FinTech, Experimental finance
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Professor emeritus
Area contact
Area Chair
Kyoung Jin Choi, Associate Professor
Area Administrator
Leslie Holmes