Empirical Corporate Finance - Finance II

Description from DukeHub

This course is intended to introduce students to research topics in empirical corporate finance. The course is roughly divided into two parts. In the first part, we spend considerable amount of time on canonical early papers in corporate finance, most of which deal with the role of various capital market imperfections, such as taxes, moral hazard, or asymmetric information, in the determination of optimal capital structure. We also examine the empirical literature these early papers have spawned. In the second half of the course, we examine a range of current topics in empirical corporate finance and explore the tools used to address these questions. Instructor consent required.

Skills

• financedescription: "finance" and 2 more

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "moral"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

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