Spring 2027

Topics Seminar-finance Phd

A Finance PhD seminar covering special topics of current or emerging interest in financial economics.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Randall Wright

Summary

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2008: 3.75 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2009: 3.65 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Business PHD

  • Declared in Business PHD
FINANCE 972

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  • Declared in Business PHD

Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

RANDALL WRIGHT is recorded teaching in Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2008: 3.75 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2009: 3.65 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Special topics of current or emerging interest in financial economics

Skills

  • Engage with special topics of current or emerging interest in financial economics

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2009— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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FINANCE 972 · Spring 2027

Topics Seminar-Finance PhD

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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    "title": "Topics Seminar-Finance PhD",
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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  "output_id": "dfa52818e66f8eba6978691337230db0a795fa372e2d33edccc20ee04f3718bd",
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