 | BUSI880 | Financial Economics | 3h. Introduction to the theory of decision making under uncertainty, portfolio selection and asset pricing. |
| BUSI881 | Corporate Finance | 3h. Introductory level course to corporate finance theory. The course will cover in detail several of the seminal papers in corporate theory, discussing topics such as takeovers, capital structure, and agency theory. |
| BUSI882 | Empirical Corporate Finance | 3h. This course offers an introduction to selected topics in the empirical corporate finance literature. Topics include executive compensation, corporate governance, law and finance, takeovers and corporate control, capital structure, financial distress and bankruptcy, internal capital markets and diversification, and financial intermediation. |
| BUSI885 | Seminar in Research in Finance | 1h. An informal seminar to discuss current research of doctoral candidates and faculty. |
| BUSI886 | Quantitative Methods in Finance (Economics 386) | 3h. This course is provides an introduction to the quantitative methods used in empirical asset pricing. Model specification and estimation issues are discussed at length. The course emphasizes both theoretical and practical research. |
| BUSI887 | Seminar in Asset Pricing | 3h. This course introduces PhD students to advanced techniques for modeling asset prices or returns in a continuous-time setting. The course encompasses no-arbitrage characterization of asset prices, no-arbitrage pricing of derivatives securities; dynamic portfolio and consumption choice under uncertainty; and equilibrium characterization of asset prices. |
| BUSI888 | Seminar in Financial Markets | 3h. This course cover advanced topics in empirical asset pricing. The topics change every time the course is being taught. The course is meant to be a bridge towards the current literature and provides students with the most recent developments in various areas. |
| BUSI899 | Foundations for Continuous Time Asset Pricing | The aim of this course is to summarize the main probabilistic tools in asset pricing. While the focus is on continuous time mathematical finance (stochastic calculus, martingale methods), we will also pay attention to underlying economics assumptions (no arbitrage and risk premium in market equilibrium) as well as to practical relevance (from discrete time data to continuous time models). |
| BUSI899-002 | Advanced Corporate Finance Theory | 1.5h. This is an advanced course in corporate finance theory, examining recent contribution related to the choice of corporate financial policies, such as dividend policy, capital structure, corporate control, financial reorganizations, initial public offers and security design. |
| BUSI 899-006 | Market Microstructure Theory | 3h. Introduction to the field of market microstructure with asymmetrically informed agents. Topics include rational expectation models and their foundation, strategic trader models, welfare issues associated with insider trading, information disclosure, manipulation, information sales in financial markets, and optimal market design. |