Program Overview

Program Overview

The doctoral program in Finance is targeted towards the pursuit of academic excellence. The Program covers a wide range of subjects including Asset Pricing, Financial Economics, Financial Econometrics, Corporate Finance, and Mathematical Finance.

Program Structure

Applicants should have a strong interest in research and the desire to pursue an academic career or to continue their career doing research in Finance within the public or private sector. This program will be part of the Swiss Finance Institute PhD program for the Léman area (University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, and EPFL). The doctoral program enrolls 10 to 15 students per year.

The PhD Program in Finance starts with a curriculum of PhD courses. The aim of this intensive course-work is to provide all candidates with a broad and complete education covering the basic building blocks and conceptual tools of finance. Upon admission to the second phase of the program, Swiss Finance Institute PhD students select a thesis topic and choose their thesis advisor within one of the participating universities.

Career Opportunities

Over the last few years, our students have been placed either in the industry or in premier academic institutions such as Harvard (USA), University of Toronto (CAN), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Duke University (USA), the London School of Economics (UK), HEC Paris (France), or the University of Rochester (USA).

Program Details

• Program regulation
• New PhD Students
• Course book
• Course information
• Mentoring
• Candidacy exam
• Annual report
• End of thesis
• News and events

People Involved

• Committee
• Thesis Directors
• PhD Students
• PhD Student Representatives
• Jury Presidents

Published Theses

• Published theses

Awards

• List of awards
• Awards laureates

Program Location

The EDFI program is located at Extranef 214, CH-1015 Lausanne.