This course provides a general introduction to the fundamentals of financial theories. The course will be delivered to topics. Within each topic, we will discuss related concepts on mathematics, statistics, programming, and economics.
We will read papers extensively. You may learn how to read papers efficiently. You are asked to cover and present a paper, write review reports, prepare a proposal for a new research. You need to present the above work during our class meetings.
Most people do not acquire a deep understanding of empirical issues without actually doing empirical work. Therefore, you will be assigned exercises that require dealing with data and estimating models. You are free to use any software available to you to perform this empirical work. Matlab, Stata, Eviews, R, or Python is recommended.