advfin

Advanced Finance

(ESC 2 )

Finance and Economics on the Web

http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp

http://webpage.pace.edu/pviswanath/finance.html

*Free Cases

The Merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq (A) Strategy and Valuation

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909887

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909888

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909889

Package War: Fedex Vs. Ups

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909934

2. Additional References

Brealey, R., Myers, S. and Allen, F. (2011), Principle of Corporate Finance, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill.

4. Fun stuffs related to finance

https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/funfinance

5. Open On-line Courses

MIT Finance Theory for MBA

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/

Aswath Damodaran at NYU

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/onlineclass.htm

Financial Markets (2011) with Robert Shiller

http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC8FB14A2200B87185

The course will closely follow the book below. You can read it if you have time.

Jonnathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, Corporate Finance,Global edition, 3rd edition, Pearson.

Course Outline

https://sites.google.com/site/theoryofincentives/advfin/AdvFin_outline.pdf

Slides

https://sites.google.com/site/theoryofincentives/advfin/All_2017_big.pdf

Exercise book

https://sites.google.com/site/theoryofincentives/advfin/BD_SM_2017.pdf

Financial Glossary

https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/corpfinance/Glossary.pdf

French-English glossary (only for students who studied Corproate Finance in French)

https://sites.google.com/site/theoryofincentives/advfin/glossary_French.xlsx

Key concepts of the textbook

http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/ema_ge_berk_cf_2/148/37902/9703132.cw/index.html

Session 1

Preclass assingment

Have a quick look at the WSJ article below to see an example of arbitrage.

https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/courses/acf/Example_BMW_WSJ.pdf

Course Summary for Corporate Finance course last year (largely based onChapter 3-7 of Berk-DeMarzo book)

https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/courses/acf/Course_Summary_CF.pdf

Useful links

1. Major Links

2. Additional References

3. More links

4. Fun stuffs related to finance

5. Open On-line Courses

** Highly Recommended

* Recommended

1. Major Links

** http://www.ft.com (free registration using GEM email box. You can also read FT newspaper at the school Library)

** www.economist.com (a must read weekly magazine. It can be found in the school Library)

* http://finance.yahoo.com

MarketWatch, a subsidiary of Dow Jones

http://www.marketwatch.com

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks

http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals

US company filings

http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

Read and search Wall Street Journal at Factiva for free

http://libraryds.grenoble-em.com/en/Pages/default.aspx

ProQuest databases

http://libraryds.grenoble-em.com/en/databases/Pages/academicjournals.aspx