Course Overview

This PhD course is aimed to provide students advanced corporate finance knowledge. Students are expected to understand empirical issues and methodologies regarding corporate finance, including capital structure, new issues, corporate investment, M&A, corporate government and corporate payout. Students who take this course are strongly recommended to have undergraduate background in Finance, Accounting and Econometrics.

Learning Achievement

Students are expected to understand empirical issues and methodologies regarding corporate finance, including capital structure, new issues, corporate investment, M&A, corporate government and corporate payout. Students who take this course are strongly recommended to have undergraduate background in Finance, Accounting and Econometrics.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading and Requirements Mid-term 25% Final 25% Presentation 10% Research paper 25% Exercise and quiz 15% A. This course is processed all in English. B. You are required to preview papers, which would be your assignments for examinations. (It will be great if you could quickly preview them in the winter break). C. You are responsible to present papers in turn in the class (indicated by (S), we will arrange presenters for papers in the first week). I will cover papers with * mark. D. In addition, you need to complete a research project. To make sure that you can submit your research paper on time, please submit your proposal before Apr end. An uncreative proposal or unworkable project would be rejected until I am satisfied. E. Two types of exercises are requested for each topic: i) a comment for a working paper, and ii) a proposal for a given project title. F. You will have an open-book test on basic corporate finance at the first week.

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

(College of Management) Graduate Institute of Finance

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Yanzhi Wang

Other information

*Registration eligibility: Ph.D students.

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