SEMINAR-CORPORATE FINANCE (PH.D.)

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Business or Economics PhD programs Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate the theoretical body of work that comprises corporate finance, including its fundamental theorems Audience: Graduate 2. Examine the big open questions in theoretical research in corporate finance Audience: Graduate 3. Apply the quantitative methods used in corporate finance research Audience: Graduate 4. Utilize statistical software and financial databases to perform econometric analyses commonly used in academic corporate finance research. Audience: Graduate 5. Use standard reduced-form and structural approaches to address problems of endogeneity in answering questions of causality. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify, describe, and produce questions at the frontier of research in academic corporate finance. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate the theoretical body of work that comprises corporate finance, including its fundamental theorems Audience: Graduate 2. Examine the big open questions in theoretical research in corporate finance Audience: Graduate 3. Apply the quantitative methods used in corporate finance research Audience: Graduate 4. Utilize statistical software and financial databases to perform econometric analyses commonly used in academic corporate finance research. Audience: Graduate 5. Use standard reduced-form and structural approaches to address problems of endogeneity in answering questions of causality. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify, describe, and produce questions at the frontier of research in academic corporate finance. Audience: Graduate