In the past, students had a choice of attending weekly meetings or working on individual research topic.
Fall 2014 series is focused on small business financing and on-line trading.
Example of individual research topics in the past:
1. Weather derivatives and moral hazard
2. Capital structure of internet companies
3. Theory and practice of project financing
4. Debt vs. equity under asymmetric information:
a review of the literature
5. Project financing: a review of the literature
A sample of prearranged list of topics is presented below.
| Topic | PPT slides |
| Introduction | |
| Financial Analysis of Investment Projects | |
| Valuation of Firms | |
| Topics in Portfolio Management | |
| Financing choices | |
| Capital structure theory | |
| Initial public offerings | |
| Financial innovations | Lecture8FinInnovations |
| Venture capital and private equity | |
| Mergers and acquisitions | Lecture9Mergers |