The goal of this course is to provide a rigorous, PhD-level introduction to the modern empirical toolkit that is used in corporate finance and asset pricing. Thus, the course is designed to complement the PhD Asset Pricing course (Economics 2723), the PhD Corporate Finance course (Economics 2725), and the PhD Behavioral Finance course (Economics 2728). The course shows how to apply these empirical methodologies to answer research questions in financial economics. We will frequently use the literatures on (i) credit supply shocks, (ii) investment cash flow sensitivity, and (iii) corporate...
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