Spring 2027

Advanced Topics Seminar-finance Phd

Advanced Topics Seminar for Finance PhD students discussing current and emerging interests in financial economics, analyzing open questions and new methodologies.

offering recorded3 credits
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Evaluate frontier research papers in financial economics.

  • Formulate a new research question based on surveyed literature.

  • Effectively present research findings in an academic setting.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Business or Economics PhD programs

  • Declared in Business or Economics PhD programs
FINANCE 974

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  • Declared in Business or Economics PhD programs

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Current and emerging interests in financial economics, including open questions and new methodologies.
  • Evolving topics based on newly added and addressed papers.

Skills

  • Evaluating frontier research papers in financial economics.
  • Formulating new research questions based on surveyed literature.
  • Presenting research findings effectively in an academic setting.

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FINANCE 974 · Spring 2027

Advanced Topics Seminar-Finance PhD

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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