SOBEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3
Text Box: Home Text Box: Vita Text Box: Research Text Box: Teaching Text Box: Links Text Box: Special Topics & Research — MFIN6690 Text Box: This is an advance-level course for Master of Finance students. It provides a theoretical and empirical overview of major topics in finance with a special focus on corporate finance. The course will survey classic papers, methodology papers, as well as papers that represent some of the most recent developments in the field of Finance. The objective is to prepare students to critically evaluate and conduct research in Finance, formulate capital budgeting strategies and other long-term financial policies and analyze the impact these policies may have on firm value. This course is designed for maximum student participation and students are expected to spend a lot of time reading, dissecting, analysing existing research papers as well as formulating their own research question for the Major Research Project (MRP). Text Box: Course Summary Text Box: Test of Market Efficiency Application of Portfolio Analysis Application of Capital Budgeting Value-at-Risk (VaR) Analysis Simulation & Scenario Analysis Text Box: You Cannot Manage Unless You Can Measure !! Text Box: Topics Covered Text Box: Event Studies Application of Cross-sectional Regression Application Panel Regression Application of ARIMA Model Empirical Test of CAPM Text Box: Text Box: Go to the Blackboard for the Course Materials for