Advanced Financial Economics (Fall 2019)
Final year (3rd) undergraduate in Economics
Syllabus

Lectures
L1: Mathematical methods and introduction
L2: Corporate finance I: Modigliani & Miller theorem
L3: Corporate finance II: Imperfect and incomplete capital markets
L4: Corporate finance III: Taxes
L5: Corporate finance IV: Costly default
L6: Corporate finance V: Agency conflicts
L7: Corporate finance VI: Information asymmetry
L8: Empirical methods I: basic regression model and endogeneity
L9: Empirical methods II: fixes to endogeneity
L10: Empirical literature on financial frictions
L11: Asset pricing I: Consumption-based asset pricing
L12: Asset pricing II: Portfolio choice
L13: Asset pricing III: Bubbles
L14: Asset pricing IV: Equilibrium asset pricing and CCAPM
L15: Empirical methods III: CAPM and factor models
L16: Banking: Liquidity provision and bank runs
L17: Revision