The Duke Financial Economics Center (DFE) is a leader in the field of financial education, serving hundreds of Duke students each year. We leverage Duke University's renowned liberal arts curriculum and world-class faculty through teaching, research, innovative programming, and alumni engagement. A core objective of the DFE is to empower all Duke undergraduates, regardless of academic focus, to enter finance careers uniquely prepared to succeed.
DFE offers 30+ finance courses in the Economics Department and study away programs in New York and London.
The Eichel Finance Advising Network supports faculty-, alumni-, and peer-led opportunities for undergraduates seeking guidance on finance careers.
From competitions to mock interviews, DFE organizes a range of activities to help students hone practical skills to succeed in finance recruitment.
Explore DFE’s Guide to Pursuing Finance at Duke and other resources on interviewing, networking, and internships.
This annual award is given to seniors who have made outstanding contributions as leaders and mentors in the Duke undergraduate finance community.
DFE’s research faculty are on the leading edge of scholarship in financial economics. DFE Research Director Tim Bollerslev, 2018 winner of the distinguished Carlsburg Foundation Research Prize, is the most cited economist at Duke and one of the most cited economists in the world.
DFE’s Climate Risk Disclosure Lab is an education and policy development initiative whose in-house law and policy experts assemble research and contribute to papers and policy-relevant reports to highlight current climate risk disclosure standards and proposals to improve them.
This DFE-sponsored blog is a forum for financial policy and regulatory scholars, as well as finance practitioners, to express their views on all things finance and regulation. Lecturing Fellow Lee Reiners oversees The FinReg Blog and Climate Risk Disclosure Lab.
