The Rodney White Center
for Financial Research
Promoting cutting-edge finance research at Wharton
Broadcasting finance insights from Wharton to the world
Training the next generation of finance scholars and leaders
RWC News
FACULTY NEWS
Professor Rob Stambaugh and Center Co-director Luke Taylor receive the 2022 Moskowitz Prize.
Professors Stambaugh and Taylor (with Lubos Pastor from University Chicago), won this prestigious award for their paper Dissecting Green Returns.
Read about the research behind this year’s prize winner in Wharton’s Press Release and learn about the prize at Northwestern University’s Moskowitz Prize website.
PROGRAM NEWS
Center hosts PhD Summer School
Summer School on Structural Estimation in Corporate Finance will be held at Wharton June 13-16, 2023. The goal of this four-day program is to teach young scholars the tools they need to understand and conduct corporate finance research using structural estimation. Click here for the full program schedule.
RESEARCH NEWS 
Financial Times covers Professor Yao Zeng’s research on active management of passive funds.
Read Professor Zeng’s complete research paper in the November 2022 issue of A Bite of Finance
Pre-Doctoral Research
Our Pre-Doctoral Research Associate and Undergraduate Research Fellow Programs provide high-level, hands-on research training to undergraduates and recent graduates pursuing finance careers in academia or industry.
OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
A Bite of Finance
A Bite of Finance summarizes the most recent finance research from Wharton, making it interesting and accessible to all audiences.
Seminar Series
Our weekly seminar series brings together faculty from Wharton and other universities to discuss current finance research.
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Johan Hombert
HEC Paris
April 12
Jan Bena
University of British Columbia
April 19
John Griffin
University of Texas – Austin
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