2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

FN 909 Research Methods & Dissertation Design in Finance

The course provides a survey of modern research methodology in the field of finance. The course material focuses on leading models of financial analyses, seminal studies, recent literature, and bibliographical sources. A special emphasis is on writing skills for advanced financial studies. Students learn to formulate motivation and underlying hypotheses; they gain skills for developing advanced analytical models. The course material also emphasizes advanced estimation techniques of financial models. Students learn to test underlying hypotheses and formulate practical policy conclusions.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

FN 901 Advanced Corporate Finance and FN 902 Investment & Asset Pricing