| Course ID: | FINA 9230. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Research Topics in Finance |
Course
Description: | Advanced topics in finance. The content is flexible with the material based on recent advances in finance. Possible course topics include "Financial Markets and Institutions" and "Game Theory with Applications to Finance and Economics." |
| Oasis Title: | RES TOPICS IN FIN |
| Prerequisite: | FINA 9200 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The objective of this course is to provide an overview of some
advanced topics in Finance. This course is primarily meant for
Ph.D. students who have already had basic training in
corporate finance and empirical asset pricing. It introduces
key concepts, models and empirical methodologies in these
advanced topics. Students are expected to produce a quality
original research proposal in this course. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Market design
2. Economics of equity trading
3. Short selling
4. Allocational role of capital markets
5. Information spillover
6. Financial intermediation
7. Firm disclosure
8. International finance
9. Corporate governance
10.Financial distress
11.Financial econometrics |