MGT-301: Foundations in financial economics

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Lectures in this course (55)

Covers risk in investment decisions, valuation of uncertain cash flows, rate of return, portfolio returns, and mean-variance utility.

Efficient Markets: Implications and Anomalies

Explores the Efficient Market Hypothesis implications, market efficiency reasons, anomalies, mutual fund performance, and factor models in performance measurement.

Market Liquidity: Equilibrium Prices and Portfolio Choice

Explores mutual fund performance, market liquidity, and optimal portfolio choice with transaction costs.

Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization

Explores Mean-Variance Utility, optimal portfolio choice, diversification benefits, efficient frontiers, and risk-free assets in portfolio optimization.

Corporate Finance: Fundamentals and Case Studies

Covers the basics of corporate finance, from startup to growth stages, using real-world examples like Google and Swiss startups.

Capital Asset Pricing Model: Efficient Portfolios and Market Equilibrium

Explores the Capital Asset Pricing Model, efficient portfolios, market equilibrium, and risk assessment theories.

Google's Early Days: Venture Capital and IPO

Explores Google's early days, venture capital, investing, and IPO process.

Corporate Finance: Debt, Leverage, and Capital Structure

Explores corporate finance, debt, leverage, and capital structure, emphasizing the importance of debt-equity ratio and firm value.

Bond Ratings and Default Spread

Explores bond ratings, default rates, capital structure optimization, dividend policies, and shareholder value distribution.

Agency: Incentives and Asymmetric Information

Explores agency, incentives, and asymmetric information in economic relationships.

Agency: Contracts and Incentives

Explores agency relationships, contracts, incentives, risk preferences, and optimal outcomes in principal-agent interactions.

Black-Scholes Formula: Risk-neutral Pricing and Option Pricing

Explores the Black-Scholes formula for option pricing and risk-neutral pricing in financial economics.

ESG Investing, SPAC

Explores ESG investing, negative screens, and SPACs' structure and advantages for investors.

Investments: Understanding Bull and Bear Markets

Explores bull and bear markets, market cycles, Covid crisis impact, and investment strategies.

Master of Financial Engineering: Program Overview

Gives an overview of the Master of Financial Engineering program and its key components, such as curriculum structure and elective courses.

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