The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to major empirical research topics and methods in corporate finance in order to prepare them for writing a Master thesis. In the first part of the seminar we will review some of the main econometric techniques such as regression analysis, time series models, panel data estimation, and event studies from an end user perspective. The second part of the seminar consists of student presentations of important research papers in corporate finance. In addition, students are required to replicate an empirical research paper with new data using Stata or R.
Part of the seminar is an ungraded term paper.
Prerequisites: "Finance Theory" and at least 2 additional Master modules in Finance.
To apply, please submit your documents (application form) to felicia.brown@hu-berlin.de latest on Monday, 09.10.2024. You can find the application form here: https://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/en/professuren/bwl/finance/study/application
Max. 20 participants
Wooldridge, J. M.: "Introductory Econometrics", South-Western (2009)
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Die Veranstaltung wurde 6 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis WiSe 2024/25 gefunden:
