1. Recent topics in Finance By Meryem BELLOUMA
Syllabus
Recent topics in Finance
By Meryem BELLOUMA

2. Motivations
The Finance Area is very fascinating. This course offers the opportunity to benefit even more from this seminar series by giving students the possibility to discuss the most recent paper.

3. Motivations
The ultimate goal of this course is to get in touch with the newest research from different fields of finance and to generate new research ideas based on the discussion of the papers.

4. Goals
We aim to introduce students to topics in corporate finance and market finance. We will consider both theoretical and applied topics.
By the end of this course, students should have a feel for both the fundamental theories underlying modern finance, as well as their real world application.

5. Topics
Over the course of this term we hope to cover the following topics:
Topic I: Corporate Finance
− Capital structure
− Capital budgeting
− Dividend policy
− Managerial incentives
− Mergers and acquisitions

6. Topics Topic II: Market Finance − Choice under uncertainty
− Portfolio theory
− CAPM
− Derivatives
− Efficiency