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Understand the mathematics of portfolios and how risk affects the value of the asset in equilibrium under the fundaments asset pricing paradigms (CAPM and APT)
understand and explain different capital structure theories, including information asymmetry and agency conflict
Professor of Financial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a principal of the Brattle Group, Inc., and a retired director of Entergy Corporation. His research is primarily concerned with the valuation of real and financial assets, corporate financial policy, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. He is the author of influential research papers on many topics, including adjusted present value (APV), rate of return regulation, pricing and capital allocation in insurance, real options, and moral hazard and information issues in capital structure decisions.
Pay-out Policy and Capital Structure. Aims and Objectives Learning and Teaching Learning and Teaching Teaching and learning methods Detailed coverage of contemporary topics such as Efficient Markets, Peer-to-Peer Lending, Crowdfunding, Behavioural Finance, Ethical Behaviour, Hidden Leverage and Managing International Risks Acquire an understanding of corporate financial objectives, the dimensions of corporate financial decision making
Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London, and Nippon Life Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is past president of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Society for Financial Studies, Financial Intermediation Research Society, and Financial Management Association. His research has focused on financial innovation, asset price bubbles, comparing financial systems, and financial crises. He is executive director of the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College Business School. Jean Tirole has provided the profession with its first comprehensive, advanced treatment of corporate finance theory. . . . [T]he overall result is far from idiosyncratic and it will have a major impact upon teaching and research in corporate finance."—David Webb, Economic Journal
