Corporate Finance

This course provides the theory and empirical evidence regarding corporate financing and investment decisions. Issues include capital structure policy, dividend policy, capital budgeting, corporate securities, long-term financing, risk management, and mergers and acquisitions.

Theory of Investment

This course provides students with a general understanding of the operation of capital markets and basic analytical tools of investment. Specifically, the course covers such topics as risk and return relation, modern portfolio theory, asset pricing models, bonds and common stocks valuation, efficient market hypothesis, investment management, and option pricing models.

Seminar in Investment

This course provides advanced theories that link finance to macro and micro economics. Students learn the characteristics and analysis of individual securities as well as the theory and practice of optimally combining securities into portfolios. Some basic knowledge about probability and calculus. This class, however, requires the economic intuition behind the subject matter.

Special Topics in Corporate Finance

This course focuses on empirical research methods in coporate finance area. Students will learn typical models and understand how qualitative methods are applied to financial decisions. This course also reviews recent important research that can be applied by the corporate finance officer.

Seminar in Corporate Finance

This course is for advanced students and studies the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects. It includes basic concepts, principles and techniques and applies them to case studies in several indusries. Resource constraints and timing options are introduced to the capital budgeting decisions with a variety of worked examples using linear programming and real option techniques.

International Finance

This course studies international financial markets and exchange rates. Topics include pricing in the foreign currency and Eurocurrency markets, use of forward exchange for hedging, short-term returns and market efficiency in the international money markets, foreign currency derivatives, foreign currency financing and exposure management.

Management of Financial Institutions

We learn to how to measure diverse risks, including market, credit and operational risks, and how to compare risk measurement in an optimal risk-return framework. We also study how to adjust the differences, and finally how to evaluate the whole process.

Theory of Insurance

This course studies the importance of risk and insurance in personal and business affairs and the different methods of meeting risk. Areas examined in the course include financial analysis of exposure to loss, financial and actuarial pricing of insurance products, and the role of private insurance under information asymmetry such as adverse selection and moral hazard.

Global Practice of Banking

The lectures are led by finance professionals who have extensive experiences and expertise in the global banking and finance field. The main goal is to offer a practical and theoretical knoeledge to students who want first-hand experience. At the end of the program participants are expected to gain critical decision making skills based on sound understanding of the banking industry.