Comprehensive and flexible programme designed to equip the candidate with all the tools necessary for high quality research

Flexible programme with evening classes accommodating the needs of part time students

Large faculty, holding doctoral degrees from several major European and North-American universities, with broad expertise in most areas of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, derivatives, and banking

Access to the very best international databases: WRDS, CRSP, Compustat, Datastream, Worldscope, Reuters, Bloomberg

Exposure to state-of-the-art research through a seminar series with speakers from the top European and North-American universities

The Finance PhD programme at Iscte is a rigorous program designed to train candidates to produce high quality research

The programme is suited to students who want to become faculty members at research universities or who want to lead research departments at financial institutions

During the first year and first semester of the second year, candidates take a broad sequence of courses in finance, economics, and econometrics

Master the tools (Economic and Finance theory, econometric methods and others) necessary to conduct high quality research in Finance

Know and comprehend in-depth several topics of research in Finance

Contribute in an independent and innovative way to the research in a Finance topic. In all curricular units, these objectives are defined operationally and evaluated with the instruments deemed as the most adequate for each type of objective