Summer School on Finance and Product Markets

Course Description

The course aims to introduce participants to the growing research area focusing on the intersection(s) between finance and industrial organization. The course will cover the multifaceted interactions between firms’ (real and financial) decisions and their product market environments. Both theoretical articles and empirical articles will be covered and discussed. In addition, we will discuss issues related to the definition and measurement of firms’ product markets and competitive environments, as well as methods and settings used by researchers to estimate causal relationships. We will emphasize the link between theoretical and empirical research in both industrial organization and finance.