Research Methodology

(MSc Finance)

Course page at Moodle

Course Outline

https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/courses/rm/outline_RM.docx

Academic Journals in Finance (Top 3 are JF, JFE, RFS)

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

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Survey books

Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Volume 2, Part A, Pages 1-798 (2013) Corporate Finance

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740102/2/part/PA

Volume 2, Part B, Pages 799-1612 (2013)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740102/2/part/PB

Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Volume 1, Part A, Pages i-xxiv, 1-604, I-1-I-25 (2003)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740102/1/part/PA

Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance

Edited by: B. Espen Eckbo

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444532657

Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking

Edited by: Anjan V. Thakor and Arnoud W.A. Boot

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444515582

Handbooks in Finance

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ebookseries/15684997

Other less important survey journals:

Foundations and Trends® in Finance

http://www.statistics.nowpublishers.com/journals/FIN/

Annual Review of Financial Economics

http://www.annualreviews.org/loi/financial

Some examples of Survey papers

Marco Becht Patrick Bolton Ailsa Röell 2002

Corporate Governance and Control

http://ssrn.com/abstract=343461

John R. Graham and Mark T. Leary

A Review of Empirical Capital Structure Research and Directions for the Future

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1729388

Useful Links

** Highly Recommended

* Recommended

1) Media

**http://www.economist.com Economist Magazine

see also topics http://www.economist.com/topics/

** http://www.ft.com (free registration using GEM email box)

*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

* Deal Journal at WSJ

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/

* Deal Book at NYT

http://dealbook.nytimes.com

Bloomberg Mobile & Apps

http://www.bloomberg.com/mobile/

The mobile Apps that I installed:

CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/30011296,

The mobile Apps that I installed:

CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/30011296,

Bloomberg Business http://www.bloomberg.com/mobile/

Podcast: BBC World Business Report, The Economist, APM Marketplace

Financial TV Channels

www.bloomberg.com/tv = Bloomberg

www.livenewschat.tv/stock-traders-chat = CNBC

Sites that are read by financial managers

www.cfo.com

www.forbes.com

www.money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/

www.businessweek.com/

http://www.euromoney.com/

Finance and Economics on the Web

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

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

2) Fun stuffs related to finance

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