Time: 02.06. – 07.06.2016
Place: Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki
Learning Goal and Objectives: This course offers a doctoral level introduction to Empirical Corporate Finance and aims to prepare doctoral students to do research on their own in this field. The course is organized around published and working papers in the filed with an emphasis on econometric methods. Rather than providing an exhaustive overview of the field, the course focuses in depth on selected topics to illustrate different empirical approaches to the same of related questions. For instance using papers on ownership concentration and corporate governance, the course will highlight the following empirical themes: endogeneity, difference in difference estimators and event studies.
Instruction and examination: See course website: http://gsf.aalto.fi/ecf.html
Credits: 6 ECTS
Grading: 1-5
Prerequisites: See course website: http://gsf.aalto.fi/ecf.html
Admittance: See course website: http://gsf.aalto.fi/ecf.html
Instructors: Instructor Renée Adams (University of New South Wales) http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/ReneeAdams.aspx
Course coordinator and contact information: Milja Koski, gsf@aalto.fi, 040 353 8061.