DOFIN - Doctoral School of Finance and Banking

DOFIN at 30
The master program in Finance and Banking - DOFIN was accredited in 1994 by the European Commission under the name Doctoral School of Finance and Banking (DOFIN) - European Center of Excellence, being selected following an international competition held in Brussels. The program was initiated in partnership with University of Reading - UK, University of Toulouse - France and Erasmus University - Netherlands. The number of partners increased over time, DOFIN collaborating with numerous prestigious universities. The project was initiated by Professors Moisa Altar, Ion Stancu and Horatiu Dragomirescu. The goal of the DOFIN program consists in training of highly qualified specialists, able to offer solutions based on the qualitative-quantitative analysis of the economic-financial phenomena manifesting in the field of finance and banking. In order to achieve its mission, the program curriculum consist in subjects that develop the students ability of analysis, synthesis and decision-making, familiarizing them both with fundamental concepts in economics and modern finance, as well as with econometric techniques for quantifying financial-monetary phenomena. The program finalizes with a dissertation that is defended in front of an international committee consisting of professors from partner universities, as well as Romanian professors and specialists. The DOFIN program is also part of the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program. DOFIN graduates have a high degree of competitiveness both on the domestic and international labor markets. DOFIN graduates include economists in specialized departments from the National Bank of Romania, ECB, European Commission, chief economists from banks in Romania and abroad, as well as economists in top management positions in commercial banks. Also, several DOFIN graduates are professors at Romanian universities and at prestigious universities abroad, such as Columbia University – USA, Oxford University – UK, Cambridge University – UK, Durham University – UK, Lancaster University – UK, University of Amsterdam – Netherlands, University of Copenhagen – Denmark.

Selective list of DOFIN graduates with top positions in academia or in the financial industry
- Csaba Bálint – Member of the Board, National Bank of Romania - Florin Bilbiie – Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Cambridge - Elena Bobeica – Senior Economist, European Central Bank - Gabriel Bobeica – Senior Economist, European Central Bank - Dan Bucsa – Chief CEE Economist, UniCredit, London - Alexandru Chideșciuc – Executive Director, J.P. Morgan, London - Otilia Ciotau – Adviser to CFO, World Bank - Bogdan Cozmanca – Vice-president, Romanian Fiscal Council - Ciprian Dascalu – Chief Economist, BCR - Anca Dimitriu – COO, Balyasny Asset Management, London - Ionut Dumitru – Chief Economist, Raiffeisen Bank Romania; President of Romanian Fiscal Council (2010-2019) - Traian Halalai – CEO, EximBank - Mihail Ion – CFO, Raiffeisen Bank Romania - Adrian Ifrim – Research Economist, European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Ildikó Magyari – Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University - Sergiu Manea – CEO, BCR - Dorin Mantescu – Economist, European Commission - Sebastian Matei – Head of Quant Group, Vontobel Bank, Zurich - Cristina Mohora – Economist, European Commission - Valeriu Nalban – Economist, International Monetary Fund; - Alina Piciorea – Global Markets Structured Products, Nomura, London - Razvan Stanca – Vice-president, Romanian Fiscal Council (2010-2019) - Alina Zaharia – Economist, European Central Bank.
Major Events
	Professor Joseph Stiglitz receiving His Doctor Honoris Causa Title (Dec. 1999). View
	Professor C.J. Rinjvos (former rector of Erasmus University, Holland) receiving His Doctor Honoris Causa Title. View
	Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz - winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2001 -, Andrew Weiss - Professor at Boston University - and Howard I. Golden - president of the Brookdale Group - visit at Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Dec. 2001). View
	Professor Moisa Altar, founder of DOFIN program, receiving VIRGIL MADGEARU Diploma, the highest distinction given by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies to a member of the academic community (Dec. 2023) View

Selective list of Doctoral Conferences
	Professor Ioanid Rosu (Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business) - "Price Formation in Financial Markets" View
	Professor Andreas Kolodziejak (European Commission - Brussels) - "Preference dynamics, migration and potential growth: implications for monetary policy" View
	Professor M. Peter van der Hoek, (Erasmus University ) - "The European Union: Eastern Enlargement and Taxation" View
	Dr. Anca Dimitriu (ISMA Centre - The Reading University) conference on "Abnormal Returns in Equity Markets: Evidence from a Dynamic Indexing Strategy" View
	Professor Stuart A. Umpleby (The George Washington University) conference on Quality Management View
	Professor Carol Alexander (ISMA Centre - The University of Reading) conferences on "Operational Risk Measurement : Advanced Approaches" and "VaR and Option Pricing with Normal Mixture Density Functions" View
	Professor Jacques Pezier (The Warwick University) conferences on "Management of Operational Risk", "Dynamic Hedging of Financial Products in Imperfect Markets" and "Performance Measures - Static but Beyond Normality" View
	Professor Michael Smith (ISMA Centre - The University of Reading) conference "Options - a trading perspective" View
	Professor Simon P. Burke (The Reading University) conference "Lectures in Econometrics - some aspects of time series econometrics" View
	Professor Paul Wachtel (Stern School of Business - New York University) conference on "The Financial Sector, Monetary Policy and Central Banks" View
	Professor Michael Artis and Professor C.J. Rinjvos - Symposium on Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Euro Area View
	Professor Michael Artis (IUE Florence, Italy) conference on Optimal Currency Area View
	Professor Christopher Nobes (The Reading University) conference "An Overview of the IASC" View
	Professor David Perez-Castrillo conference on "Economics of Information" and Professor Ines Macho-Stadler conference on "Tax Evasion" View
	Professor C.J. Rinjvos and Professor M. Peter Van der Hoek - Symposium on Business Ethics View
	Professor Mike Smith (The Reading University) conference on Derivatives View
	Professor Marcus Miller (Warwick University) conference on Insurance Bubble and Stock Market Valuation View