Учебные программы

This course is an elective finance course in the Investment track focusing primarily on equity. It covers the factors influencing the valuation of financial securities: earnings forecasts and expectations, uncertainty, required returns, supply and demand for securities and funds, level of interest rates, and investors' attitudes. The course material will be conveyed through a variety of formats such as lectures, class discussions, selected readings, and current events.

FIN 403:  Seminar in Corporate Finance   + denotes a primary reading * denotes a reading that appears in The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance   1. Theory of investment and financing under certainty (Week of Aug. 30) +Fama, E.F. and M.H.

This course is a second year graduate topics course in financial economics. The course studies the equilibrium implications of endogenous financial contracts. Static and dynamic models of economies with contracting frictions (e.g., imperfect information and limited enforceability) and optimally determined financial contracts are covered and the implications for both quantities and prices are considered. The course is thus at the intersection of corporate finance/contract theory and asset pricing/macroeconomics. Specific topics covered include the dynamics of agency costs, financial intermediation, liquidity, collateral, default and non-exclusive contracts.

This seminar explores several key lines of current organizational research. The aim is to assess the utility of these research areas, find points of linkage, and understand the kinds of questions that these different macro-level approaches answer best. The course focuses on research on institutional change, historical studies of networks, cross-national variation in organizing, and evolutionary approaches.