The Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) offers within its Doctoral Course Program in Finance a course on
Topics in Corporate Finance with
Niklas Amberg, Ramin Baghai, Bo Becker, Daniel Metzger, Farzad Saidi, Per Strömberg, Dong Yan (Stockholm School of Economics)
Schedule (provisional):
Session Date Day Topic Teachers
1 12.02.2018 Monday Credit Ratings Ramin Baghai 2 13.02.2018 Tuesday Private Firms Dong Yan
3 26.02.2018 Monday Financial Intermediation Farzad Saidi / Niklas Amberg 4 27.02.2018 Tuesday Entrepreneurship Daniel Metzger
5 12.03.2018 Monday
Institutions, rules, politics and
finance Bo Becker
6 13.03.2018 Tuesday M&A Per Strömberg
Please note that there might be minor changes regarding topics and times. We intend to post the final schedule including a list of papers that participants should read in advance in December 2017. Each student is also expected to prepare one referee report per session, on a paper of her choice.
Time and venue: 5h per day; SHoF, Drottninggatan 98, Stockholm Credits: 7.5 ECTS
Examination:
• Pass/Fail: One referee report per session (about 2-4 pages per report)
• Graded: One referee report per session plus research proposal (about 8 pages) Registration
Please register in advance with the course secretary Jenny Wahlberg Andersson, Department of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, Drottninggatan 98, 111 60 Stockholm, e-mail:
jenny.wahlberg.andersson@hhs.se Travel Stipends
SHoF offers travel stipends to PhD students from Swedish universities. To apply, please send a brief motivation letter/mail by the supervisor and a budget to jenny.wahlberg.andersson@hhs.se. The Nordic Finance Network (NFN) offers travel stipends to PhD students from other Nordic countries who come from one of the NFN member institutions. Information on how to apply for NFN travel stipends is on http://nfn.aalto.fi/courses.htm.
SHoF
On http://houseoffinance.se/phd-course-program/core-courses/ there is further information about SHoF’s Doctoral Course Program in Finance.
