Seminar-corporate Finance (ph.d.)
A Ph.D. seminar providing intensive study and critical examination of recent empirical and theoretical literature in corporate finance.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Demonstrate the theoretical body of work that comprises corporate finance, including its fundamental theorems
Examine the big open questions in theoretical research in corporate finance
Apply the quantitative methods used in corporate finance research
Utilize statistical software and financial databases to perform econometric analyses commonly used in academic corporate finance research.
Use standard reduced-form and structural approaches to address problems of endogeneity in answering questions of causality.
Identify, describe, and produce questions at the frontier of research in academic corporate finance.
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Course mapDeclared in Business or Economics PhD programs
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- Declared in Business or Economics PhD programs
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
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Topics
- Recent empirical and theoretical literature in corporate finance
- Open questions in theoretical corporate finance research
- Endogeneity and causality in finance research
Skills
- Demonstrating the theoretical body of work in corporate finance, including fundamental theorems.
- Applying quantitative methods used in corporate finance research.
- Using statistical software and financial databases to perform econometric analyses.
- Using reduced-form and structural approaches to address endogeneity and causality.
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