Allen Berger
Carolina Distinguished Professor
H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor of Banking and Finance
Phone: 803-576-8440
Email: aberger@moore.sc.edu
About the Center for Financial Institutions (CFI)
The center enhances the position of the Moore School as a global thought leader in addressing the educational and research needs of practitioners, students, and faculty in the areas of banking, financial systems, capital markets and the real economy.
The Finance Department focuses strategically on researching financial institutions, with over a third of its faculty engaged in cutting-edge work in this field. With numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and research-inspired books, the department is recognized globally for its thought leaders. The department also trains Ph.D. students to become future leaders in their field. The center aims to enhance the department's reputation by improving the quality and quantity of financial institutions research and expanding its communication. Additionally, the department has successfully organized the Financial Institutions and Fixed Income (FIFI) Conference for over a decade.
CFI also focuses on student experience through various events and organizations. In the past, the center has supported student case competitions, trips to conferences, industry leader speaker events, Carolina Finance Scholars and student organizations such as the Women in Business Council and CFIA.
Accomplishments of the Center for Financial Institutions
- Fixed Income and Financial Institutions Conference, with 16 outside speakers from Columbia, UVA, Cornell, MIT, Georgetown, the Fed, LBS, Swiss Finance Institute, and others
- CFI Visiting Scholars, including Viral Acharya from NYU, Murrilo Campello from Cornell University, and Itay Goldstein from Wharton
- Support some of the Finance Department's academic seminars
- Faculty Research Awards
- Donghang Zhang for his paper published in the Review of Financial Studies, titled “SPACs,” co-authored with Minmo Gahng and Jay R. Ritter
- Allen Berger for his paper published in the Journal of Political Economy, titled “Piercing through Opacity: Relationships and Credit Card Lending to Consumers and Small Businesses during Normal Times and the COVID-19 Crisis," co-authored with Christa H. S. Bouwman, Lars Norden, Raluca Roman, Gregory F. Udell, and Teng Wang
- Chao Jiang for his paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics, titled “Overnight Returns, Daytime Reversals, and Future Stock Returns,” co-authored with Akbas, Ferhat, Ekkehart Boehmer, and Paul Koch
Speaker Series featuring guests from various financial institutions: Bank of America, JPM, Jefferies, Piper Sandler, Truist, RSIC, Greystar, and more
- Women in Finance Annual Event
- Finance Friday
- Case Competition Teams: Placed 4th among 400 teams globally in Investment Banking Competition
- Best Ph.D. Paper Awards
- Paul Freed
- Jerry Guo
- Yifan Ji (Best First-Year Paper)
Contact Us
Donghang Zhang
W. W. "Hootie" Johnson Endowed Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance
Phone: 803-777-0242
Email: zhang@moore.sc.edu