Greetings from the Department of Economics and Finance at SIUE!
We welcomed a new finance faculty member, Dr. Jie Ying from the University of Iowa. We are in the process of recruiting a new economics faculty member. Our alumni–Nikola Bundalo, Dylan Corgan, Kevin Kaufhold, Nicole Ramig and Kelly Ayres–are going to be teaching in the spring semester. It is good to see familiar faces and to have our students benefit from the knowledge our alumni have gained.
During this academic year, Dr. Riza Demirer and Dr. Shrikant Jategaonkar have taken sabbaticals to work on their research. Dr. Demirer was away in the fall and Dr. Jategaonkar is away this spring semester.
We are now admitting students to the new, expanded finance and economics specializations in the BSBA program. We are also adding electives at the MBA level and the undergraduate level. The department is working to acquire a couple of new databases through the School of Business so we can integrate this data in our instruction and research.
We are offering the following new courses this year in the new undergraduate and graduate curricula to provide our students with a diverse set of elective choices so they can pursue their career goals:
- Entrepreneurial finance (MBA)
- Economics of Health Care (MBA)
- Fixed Income Securities (BS)
- Law and Economics (BS)
- Empirical Business Applications (BS)
Rakesh Bharati, Professor of Finance
Chair, Department of Economics and Finance
