Empirical Corporate Finance (1 º Sem 2020/2021)

FI (Finance)

Objetivos

To understand the basic concepts of empirical academic research in Finance, with a special focus in the case
of corporate finance.
To be able to collect data from the main financial databases(Bloomberg, Reuters, Amadeus, amongst others).
To know how to transform that data in order for it to be used in research, in particular using software like STATA for econometrics purposes.
To apply, in the field of corporate finance, the concepts and fundamentals of econometrics learned previously, understanding how to program in these cases.
To have first hand contact with some of the research currently being developed at ISEG in areas related to corporate finance, based on presentationsof papers, cases articles